James Inhofe or the Mole Man?

There was a recent news item about Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma blocking an authorization for an Earth Day concert on the Capitol lawn because it was a partisan event. Ignoring the fact that the bill is co-sponsored by a Republican, I am not sure what gives a Senator who doesnt even have 50% approval in HIS OWN STATE (he has topped out at 49% over the last two years) license to say what is and is not within the purview of his party. Sadly I doubt many people watched the testimony of Vice-President Gore before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee the other week because they would have seen this guy make a complete ass out of himself. Unfortunately I cant find the full video online only Boxer scolding him (which if youre a US Senator getting scolded as if by a school marm that really says a lot) for bitching about not having enough time to allow people to answer the questions he asked, which seems to have overshadowed everything else that went on. I would like the full video because I am sure if you timed the amount of time he spent cutting off answers to his questions and complaining about time and the amount of extra time he was given, he actually had more than sufficient time (yes I wanted to see how many times I could say time at one time). Anyways this inspired me to bring back my Politician/Superhero/villain comparisons.

Presenting Senator James Inhofe aka The Mole Man. For those unfamiliar with James Inhofe he is the whiney little man who is skeptical of scientific process and attributes Global Warming to sunspots. The Mole Man for those unfamiliar with him is the epitome of sixties supervillains, this one brought to us from the Fantastic Four. He is a scientist who when testing his theory of a hollow earth discovered and was trapped in a subterranean world (which he of course thought proved his theory although it was clearly shown that it did not). Since then he has occasionally found his way to the surface and threatened the world with strange creatures from below the earth and is dutifully sent back under the rock from whence he came. He has never been more than a middling threat and for his combination of ineffectuality, misguided science, and mainly because he looks like he spends most of his time under a rock I think that clearly Sen. James Inhofe is the Moleman.

next issue...Bill Richardson, as all American as Baseball and Agent of Mediocrity, er uh, Change, thats what I meant.