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Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming
The Daily Caller ^ | Monday, May 20, 2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 05/20/2013 5:20:12 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

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.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Oklahoma; US: Oregon; US: Rhode Island; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 113th; alabama; cantfixstupid; climatechange; ditz; douche; duplicate; globalwarming; leftwingnuts; notbreakingnews; oklahoma; oregon; rhodeisland; sheldonwhitehouse; texas
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Tornadogate ? Democrats latest scandal to stick it to the conservatives ever more ?
21 posted on 05/20/2013 5:32:59 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: ConservativeInPA

The rat is a scum bag. Its a disease and they should be quarantined.


22 posted on 05/20/2013 5:33:28 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Sheldon is being naughty and stupid, again. Yep, he really is that dumb.


23 posted on 05/20/2013 5:33:46 PM PDT by JPG (Stay strong.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Perhaps we can share rides?


24 posted on 05/20/2013 5:34:36 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Worse than the Wellstone memorial. This is who they are.


25 posted on 05/20/2013 5:35:05 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
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To: SandRat

I think we need to find a designated driver first.


26 posted on 05/20/2013 5:38:52 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: DanielRedfoot

Lived in Tornado alley all my life it just happens and we that live there know it’s not Global warming.
Mother Nature has warmmer air and cooler air and when they collide and you have a Tornado. What are you gonna do push the jet stream back up to Canada grab some smarts Idiot. 50 trillion dollars are not gonna stop a F-4 and neither is Scientific Rhetoric or RI BS!!


27 posted on 05/20/2013 5:39:07 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: ConservativeInPA

Now make with the cash and be snappy about it. Do what we say, and nobody gets hurt.


28 posted on 05/20/2013 5:39:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

What a bunch of insane screed. Has he had a mental breakdown? I would vote that puppy out in a HEARTBEAT!


29 posted on 05/20/2013 5:40:16 PM PDT by Monkey Face (If I had a dollar for every time I was distracted, I wish I had a puppy.)
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To: TexasCajun

Looks like a fairy to me....


30 posted on 05/20/2013 5:40:38 PM PDT by Monkey Face (If I had a dollar for every time I was distracted, I wish I had a puppy.)
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To: TexasCajun

Message to Sheldon Whitehouse:
Sir, I don’t know if you have a soul. I don’t know if you have a brain.

What I do know Sheldon, is that you could at least wait until the children are memorialized and buried before spouting your global warming bs.

Sheldon, it seems your behavior has a pattern. You didn’t wait until the children of Sandy Hook were buried either before trying to take our civil rights away.

Like your savior bho, you don’t have to scratch deep to find the marxist.

5.56mm


31 posted on 05/20/2013 5:42:08 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: ConservativeInPA
I have some appropriate emoticons I can use, but since I don't want to be banned from FR....
32 posted on 05/20/2013 5:43:28 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: ConservativeInPA

So the reality of 4-5 real, democrat scandals are nothing to be concerned about but the fantasy of human caused warming is just cause for further impoverishing us all. It’s a mental illness.


33 posted on 05/20/2013 5:43:55 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: ConservativeInPA

They are pulling out dozens of children who have drowned in the elementary school and this sick jerk rants about global warming? Why couldn’t it have been him who drowned instead! I’m visiting his govt website!!!


34 posted on 05/20/2013 5:43:56 PM PDT by navymom1
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To: ConservativeInPA

You mean e global warming that stopped in 1998?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023


35 posted on 05/20/2013 5:44:40 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: ConservativeInPA

This is sick, absolutely sick.

How appropriate that their party mascot is a giant jackass.


36 posted on 05/20/2013 5:45:34 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Why am I both pro-life & pro-gun? Because both positions defend the innocent and protect the weak.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

He’s completely wrong even if one believes in manmade global warming. The lower temperature contrast from north to south will cause fewer strong tornadoes. And it probably already has since there is a century or so decline in strong tornadoes. Similarly if the Senator knew something about it, he might know that tornadoes peak in April and May, not July. But he knows less than nothing about it.


37 posted on 05/20/2013 5:47:57 PM PDT by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I wish one of those fathers of a child killed by the tornado would pay a visit to that congressmen and set him straight.


38 posted on 05/20/2013 5:48:02 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: ConservativeInPA

Demons and devils come from many walks of life, senator. Senator is Global Warming (as you call it) created by a demon or devil or do you blame God?


39 posted on 05/20/2013 5:48:57 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Newsflash for the dim idiot. There is a tornado season in Oklahoma and this is the middle of it.


40 posted on 05/20/2013 5:49:26 PM PDT by pfflier
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