Inhofe: It’s Not Worth Suing Obama for His Birth Certificate Because It Would Take Ten Years to Get a Decision

This morning, at the “Freedom Summit” that kicked off three days of small government Tea Party protests, I broke from a conversation I’d been having with some attendees when one of them approached Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and asked about the feasibility of suing the government over unconstitutional legislation. Inhofe, More…

Tulsa Newspaper Slams Jim Inhofe on ‘Birthers’

Tulsa World, the daily newspaper of Oklahoma’s second-largest city is criticizing the state’s senior senator for creating some confusion about whether he thinks Americans should go on doubting the legitimacy of the president of the United States.

[O]ther Republicans have declared the conspiracy theory nonsense and have moved on.

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‘The White House Has Not Done a Very Good Job of Dispelling the Concerns’

Greg Sargent follows up with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who left the impression in a Politico story on “birthers” that he was sympathetic to their concerns.

The point that they make is the Constitutional mandate that the U.S. President be a natural born citizen, and the White House has

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F-22: Stand Up and Be Counted

People have been tweeting at me to provide a roll call for yesterday’s OMG-worth vote to kill the F-22, so here’s one. As it appeared yesterday, the vote was relatively nonpartisan: while the 58-40 tally to end funding for the fighter jet was carried by the Democrats, 15 Republicans More…

Senators Draw Battle Lines on Cap-and-Trade

The Senate’s first hearing on climate legislation since the House passed the landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act is underway. And unlike in much of the House debate, there’s little pretense of bipartisanship thus far in the Senate discussion.

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To Fight Cap-and-Trade, GOP Turns to Plutarch

In the enviro-sphere, all eyes are on the House of Representatives, which is currently engaged in a heated debate on the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill, expected to receive a vote this afternoon. But that’s not stopping one Republican senator from digging through the history books to find new ways More…

A Third GOP Senator Comes Out Against Sotomayor

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) has announced that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, making him the third senator to come out against Sotomayor, reports Congressional Quarterly.

Brownback joins Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kans.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in an anti-Sotomayor Dust Bowl trio.

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Carl Levin Not Saying a Word About Gates’ Defense Budget

Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Bob Gates is the secretary of defense and has just released a Pentagon budget proposal that cuts, guts or obstructs many of the most expensive, entrenched and criticized weapons programs and systems the department operates. You’d think Levin More…

GOP Senators Call for Obama to Withdraw Hill’s Nomination

Credit to Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard for breaking this: Five GOP senators joined with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to oppose Chris Hill’s nomination as ambassador to Iraq. Sens. Sam Brownback — we knew about him already — John Ensign (N.V.), James Inhofe (Okla.), More…

Economic Crisis Sidelines Global Warming Concerns

As the Obama administration moves forward with its green agenda, climate change concerns have been elevated to a top priority. Yet in the midst of the deepening economic crisis, public opinion appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

A Gallup poll released last Wednesday found a More…