Posted on 05/20/2013 5:16:06 PM PDT by RightGeek
While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters.
“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”
Whitehouse went on to condemn the current Republican position on global warming, citing economic, environmental and diplomatic damages.
“You drag America with you to your fate,” he continued. “So, I want this future: I want a Republican Party that has returned to its senses and is strong and a worthy adversary in a strong America that has done right by its people and the world. That’s what I want. I don’t want this future. I don’t want a Republican Party disgraced, that let its extremists run off the cliff, and an America suffering from grave economic and environmental and diplomatic damage because we failed, because we didn’t wake up and do our duty to our people, and because we didn’t lead the world. I do not want that future. But that’s where we’re headed. So I will keep reaching out and calling out, ever hopeful that you will wake up before it is too late.”
This particular son of a bitch needs a horsewhipping and I’m not kidding.
SON. OF. A. BITCH!
They are pulling the bodies of dead children out of the rubble and he does THIS???
Sheldon Shithouse dancing in the blood of dead children again. This sorry bastard needs to be locked up. Communists like him make be puke.
Whitehouse must be burned at the stake after while drawn and quartered
he is unfit to breathe American air
Is that the Sh*thouse? He even looks retarded.
Looks like the infected north end of a south bound mule.
Worse than the Wellstone memorial. This is who they are.
The debris is still falling from the sky and this clown is making opportunistic speeches? Jerk.
Well he has a point. This was the first tornado to ever hit Oklahoma...
Oh wait...
Recent massive solar flares better explanation but that doesn’t fit liberal BS.
What a total douche.
Doesn’t there need to be cold as well as warm air to generate a tornado? It would seem that if there were significant global warming, the threat of tornadoes would diminish.
The Senate needs to bring back dueling where scum like this could be called out and forced to face the consequences of their words.
Sits or Stands?
Obama in his state of the union, also claimed hurricanes, etc are irrefutable proof of global warming.
This is a man who also said Obamacare will stop doctors from uneccessarily cutting your leg off.
IOW they are absolute kooks.
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