I'm watching (infrequently) and waiting for the Third Chin Fairy to visit Glenn Beck.

Inhofe would do better if he could, but he can't so he won't.

What BreezeBlok said.

Don't go holding your breath waiting for it Steve.

Then there would be NO one left posting on weekends, you having expired from lack of oxygen and all.

Oh, you were just being snarky?

Carry on then.

That is the same as the "Real America" BS. If you are not a conservative then you are far-left and ergo; not a Real American.
The truly stupid conclusion is that only getting through the primaries is waht matters, and "purity" of ideological message will somehow create more votes.
There is score keeping in politics, more votes wins.

"his advisers told him he couldn't retain his Senate seat as a Republican"

True. But what Inhofe is missing is that no one else can retain that seat as a Republican either.

Must have been a traumatic experience for poor James Mountain, when he refused the advice of his Drill Sgt at the US Army Basic Training Center in '57 and bent over for that bar of soap.

Yeah, good ole' boy J. Mountain really cares about our troops - He pulled his support for Jim Webb's GI Bill. But, oh, he and Kit "Lush" Bond believe in protecting the Corps of Engineers from any oversight. That part of the military, Mountain really thinks is important to hide from any public scrutiny. Mountain? Was he named after the baseball commish?

A minor point:

Steve, this is the second consecutive posting where you use "prior" as the opposite of "latter". The word you're looking for is "former", OK?

ends with space, I can read the rules governing the use of "who" and "whom" until my eyes bleed and it still eludes me. Something about pontificating pronouns and amputated adverbs, I think. I sleep with a grammar scold so I understand your malady.......

Want to know what's sad about this?

Find me one liberal senator who has been invited to speak on the TV nearly as much as Inhofe. He represents a very small fraction of the electorate and yet there he is every time I turn around, spewing his garbage, which if the media had any credibility would be accompanied by a laugh track.

But what's not sad about this is that wingnuts actually believe this garbage about the American people wanting to swing hard back to the right. They can keep believing that all they want, the longer they shout down the moderate Republicans the more time the grownups will have to clean up their mess and set things in place that they will hate like hell until they go there.

To hell with Inhofe and his moronic friends. They have stalled any sensible attack on the climate crisis and for that, they deserve no pity whatsoever as they slowly die of whatever gets them in the end.

Well, since Specter is still voting like a Repub, it isn't that much of a loss for the grand old pervert party.

ends with space - Could you do the Pedantic Corps a favor and write the White House about the useage of "Got" by our President? Such as "I've "got" or we've "got".

Thanks - Fellow Pedant

ends with space - Could you do the Pedantic Corps a favor and write the White House about the useage [sic] of "Got" by our President? Such as "I've "got" or we've "got".

That isn't ungrammatical. It's just not a construction you like.

Oh Inhofe, please just have another drink and sit down before you fall down and shut up!

Another point of Inhofe's departure from reality: since 200,000 Republicans switched registration to Democrat since Specter's last run, the ones who would soundly reject him today are "the same people" who rejected him - and nearly cost him his seat - "six years ago". The ones within the GOP who supported him, had preceded him in their exit from the party.

Mr. Duncan:

Who and whom drive a lot of people nuts -- when in doubt, change "who" to "he" and see if it works. If you hace to change it to "him," then use "whom."

Hope that helps.

Check out the post by hilzoy's co-blogger publius at Obsidian Wings on the Official Oklahoma GOP Platform , and Inhofe's comments will make a little more sense.

NOT, please note, "make sense" in the definition of "being sensible" (NFW) - but "make sense" in the context of being a product of an isolated, blinkered and self-referential Party in power in a virtual one-party State: one moreover, grotesquely obsessed with homosexuality and religion (anti- and pro-, respectively) and prone to rigid absolutist moralism on virtually any political issue.

Fortunately, Oklahoma is not the rest of the world: unfortunately, Sen. Inhofe and his ilk will never grasp that simple fact...

Inhofe isn't talking to "Americans" in general, he's talking to his wingnut base.

Viewed through that lens, what he said makes perfect sense. It's exactly the soothing "we're gonna kick butt in 2010 because Americans hate socialists" talk that his base eats up.

No, he doesn't need to do any better than that.

*sigh*

You know, as a queer person I really wish people would quit playing politics with my basic humanity. It gets really insulting after a while to be continually downgraded from a human being and a citizen to a "social issue" by the Dems (yeah, President Separate-But-Equal, I'm looking at YOU), and being called a pervert by a party that embraces known rapists, pedophiles, pimps, infantilism fetishists, and serial adulterers.

Well, I can help Inhofe find that silver lining for the Republicans.

Specter will be using money from Democrats, not Republicans to fight his next primary opponent.

Specter will now, more than ever, vote against Democratic policies to prove his independence.

FOX News has a new pet to play with.

Forget silver lining; Specter's switch was a platinum plated gift to the GOP.

Jim Inhofe do better? He can't. The best from him will be always tend to the nutty side of life. The sad thing is that he does appeal to the majority of Oklahomans today. And that's especially sad because Oklahoma is a much better state than Inhofe, and one that deserves better from our representatives.

This...wait for it...is a great blog. Benen is ...wait for it...an interesting writer. I wonder what ...wait for it...is going to happen to the republicans. What did ...wait for it...Jon Stewart drop the 'wait for it' bit after it ...wait for it...got stale years ago. The ...wait for it... end.

i suppose inhofe thinks the reason that a big chunk of PA republicans left the party is because it got too far to the left...

Steve Benen so far this year:

"The day after Sen. Arlen Specter switched parties, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) went on Fox News to explain why the development was ... wait for it ... good news for Republicans."

"In an amusing twist, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is going after Specter for his ties to ... wait for it ... George W. Bush."

"My post quoted Oliver because ... wait for it ... I thought he raised a good point."

"A federally-funded study by the Rand research center recently explained that to defeat al Qaeda, the United States needs to rely ... wait for it ... less on force and more on policing and intelligence gathering."

"And finally, is it so outrageous to think expanding medical research opportunities might be ... wait for it ... good for the economy? "

"That's insane, of course, but it's also a rather obvious example of ... wait for it ... a "free lunch.""

"First, I suppose, it's worth remembering that when Steele was the lieutenant governor of Maryland, and sought re-election, he and his running mate took credit for creating 100,000 new jobs in their state. They also ran ads vowing to ... wait for it ... create more jobs."

"It reached the point today that Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), a member of the leadership, said Democrats are acting like ... wait for it ... former Republican president Herbert Hoover."

"Now, after a year of misguided, predictable, and dull columns, the New York Times has fired him, and ... wait for it ... the Washington Post is ready to pick him up."

"Except, that's not quite right -- the site was updated as recently as yesterday, with an item about ... wait for it ... economic policy."

"Helping drive GOP gains, Morris explained, will be Obama's decision to ... wait for it ... re-impose the Fairness Doctrine, which he said would help undermine the growth of the Internet."

"Better yet, he's convinced that Republicans can win the political debate over how to rescue the economy by offering Americans ... wait for it ... a whole lot of new tax cuts."

man that's lame.

"...and prone to rigid absolutist moralism on virtually any political issue." -JayC above.

Except for the issue of torture when they slip easily into moral relativism.