The reason Inhofe has a queer as a chief aide is that DC rates aides according to their successes.
What successes, you ask? The aides do the dickering (NO, not a pun) over the positional differences of the elected Representative or Senator.
Good aides are highly sought after.
As an example, Rep. Charles Taylor had a chief aide whom I was widely told was a homosexual. Taylor was a strict Constitutionalist, a wealthy man who saw Congressional service as an honor and a man who voted against every Congressional salary increase.
But, Roger was a superb aide.
Here is something to really worry about, far more important than the sexual propensities of aides.
The elected come and go - but the aides stay for a working lifetime.
That, in and of itself, is a clear and transparent reason for reduction of the Federal Government to the size mandated by the Constitution.
A huge government requires a swarm of unelected things like aides, not to mention the usually unspeakable ‘bureaucrat’ in a ‘multitude of offices’.
Time to go a “King James Cure” on ‘em.
The aides seem to be the ones running things anyway. All good points u made and I agree with every one of them.