When Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn prayed the other day that some senator in the majority would be absent so that there would not be 60 votes for passage of the Health Care Reform, he had no way of knowing that his own colleague, James Inhofe, just back from the embarrassment of his ridiculous presence at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, would decide to be go home for Christmas early, leading to a procedural vote of 60-39 in the Senate on the health care bill.
For a senator supposedly so committed to his whacko views, it is ironic that Inhofe would fail to sacrifice his time at home, as the other 99 senators are doing, having their final vote on passage scheduled for 7 am on Christmas eve, before they go home.
Senator Inhofe, obviously, does not care how his colleagues in the Senate feel, as he is an arrogant, strange character. It adds to the image that although I believe both senators from Oklahoma are the worst tandem of any state in the Senate, that Inhofe is indeed WORSE than Tom Coburn, and that is not easily accomplished! 🙂
We can only hope that Oklahoma will some day wake up from its stupor and defeat Inhofe, but unfortunately he was just reelected in 2008, so can afford to be as arrogant, ridiculous, stupid and irrelevant as he wishes to be for the time being! 🙁