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Sen. Inhofe Says US is 'Reaching a Revolution'

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haakondahl8/28/2009 11:05:29 am PDT

re: #393 Kenneth

I think Inhofe was cleverly straddling the issue. While avoiding outright calling for a revolution, he did make reference to the growing phenomenon of revolutionary rhetoric as a means to underline and justify his opposition to the bill. The is certainly a case of populist grandstanding and provocative rhetoric. Anybody in the audience who was given to the revolutionary rhetoric had no reason to feel Inhofe wasn’t with them in spirit. More than diagnosing the phenomenon as a problem, he was using it as a justification.

Wouldn’t it in fact be his job, if he feared revolution, to vote in such a way that tended to forestall said revolution? We’re not talking about the indigent Romans voting themselves bread and circuses here, quite the opposite. It’s the people who grow the wheat, saying oh-no-you-don’t.

But about “justification”, can you think of a better justification for a legislator to use than “my constituents are mad as hell, and they told me to vote this way or don’t bother to come back”?

Sounds like a Republic!