Randy Kriehl, Tulsa World Staff Writer:
[Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe] “said Barack Obama is disarming the military, is destroying everything good about America and is determined to turn foreign terrorists loose on U.S. soil.” One is subjective, the other two are patently false.
Why Democrats don’t turn such disingenuous, inflammatory, incendiary, and destructive statements such as this, by Inhofe ““I don’t know why President Obama is obsessed with turning terrorists loose in America” into THE national story of the month (as it would be turned into by the Republican Party if a Democratic Senator uttered a statement this utterly misleading, relevant, and outrageous) is somewhat hard to comprehend.
But Inhofe, who claims that climate change is a “hoax” (as, presumably, is science), while complaining how Obama is disarming America, “conceded that Obama requested more military spending (emphasis added), but he criticized the elimination of several weapons systems, including the F-22 fighter.” This blog is a fan of the incredible F-22, so we feel Inhofe’s pain on that one; but still, is it worth the several hundred million dollar price tag per airplane? The Donkasaurus Post doesn’t know.
But still, it is worth noting that neither Inhofe, who used this to illustrate Obama’s “dismantling” of our military despite requesting increased military spending otherwise, nor the Tulsa World, noted that other opponents of the F-22 expenditures included former presidential candidate and military hero John McCain, and former Bush Administration Defense Secretary, and current holdover, Robert Gates.
[...] This idea was probably very appealing to Insta-BS, since for some reason, since it is (wrongly) believed that changing over to sensible fuel sources would cut rather than simply alter the nature and makeup of long term “economic” production, it is almost de rigeuer among staunch conservatives for many years — years during which all of the above six facts were well known, and incontrovertible — to deny climate change as a fallacy, or perhaps as a hoax. (As Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe still contends). [...]