Inhofe: Dems should celebrate now because Cap and Trade is dead in the Senate

June 26, 7:54 PMDC Republican ExaminerBill Dupray

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Pelosi and Barack can do-si-do all night long over the House's passage of the Knee-Cap and Trade bill. But Sen. Jim Inhofe (R.Ok) says the party is over when it gets to the Senate.

From this morning's Countywide News.

Passing President Obama’s “cap and trade” energy program would cost the average Oklahoma family $3,200 a year, Sen. Jim Inhofe said Friday, but he’s confident the measure will be killed in the Senate no matter what happens in the House of Representatives.

The Tulsa Republican, a longtime critic of what he considers “this hoax called global warming,” made his latest statements during a morning stop in Shawnee while House members in Washington were preparing to vote on the controversial issue.

“Between the years of 1998 and 2005, I was the only member of the United States Senate who would take on what I call ‘the Hollywood elitists’ and the United Nations on this hoax called global warming and I went through seven years of purgatory on that issue.

“But now I’ve been redeemed and the vast majority of the scientific community has now said Inhofe’s right and the United Nations is wrong and those individuals … have now said ‘no, the science is not there and these are natural cycles.”

At the time of the interview Friday morning, he said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was only two votes short of winning and predicted that if she brought the question up for a vote, it would indicate she had found them.

“It doesn’t matter,” he declared flatly, “because we’ll kill it in the Senate anyway.”

Asked if he was confident that would be the case, Oklahoma’s senior senator said he was “absolutely certain.” He noted that it would take 60 votes to break an anticipated Republican filibuster over cap and trade and predicted the most the Democrats can muster is about 34.

Sometimes in America preserving the country from utter devastation literally comes down to a handful of patriotic Americans, and if Inhofe is right, millions of us will be watching for the GOP to be those Americans who stand on the tracks and face down this Global Warming freight train speeding out of the House of Representatives.