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Inhofe: No disrespect, but Franken’s a ‘clown.’

Eschaton found this 7/1/2009 on thinkprogress.org

On the same day the Minnesota Supreme Court declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of the state’s U.S. Senate election, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) welcomed his newest colleague to the Senate by referring to him as a “ clown .” In the course of predicting that the Waxman-Markey clean ...