Inhofe wants 'Live Earth' dead in the water

Will it ever end with this guy? U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK, wants the pro-Gaia rock 'n roll to stay home. Where's James Watt when ya need him?

Writes Elana Schor for The Hill:
Fresh from his face-to-face tussle with former Vice President Al Gore, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is vowing to stall Gore’s hotly anticipated Capitol concert to draw attention to global warming.
Inhofe’s belief that climate change is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” is common knowledge in the capitol, and environmental groups cheered the new prospects for carbon-capping legislation when he ceded the Environment and Public Works Committee gavel this session. But Inhofe’s parliamentary powers can block indefinitely the resolution that would permit Gore to choose the capitol’s West Front for the U.S. leg of his seven-continent Live Earth concert tour — a collaboration between Gore and promoter Kevin Wall, who masterminded previous blockbuster charity concerts Live Aid and Live 8.
(I love this next quote ... Inhofe is clearly on top of his game)

“There has never been a partisan political event at the Capitol, and this is a partisan political event,” Inhofe said yesterday.

(Brilliant! Never a partisan political event at the Capitol. Is he joking? Anyway, Inhofe added that he's got plenty of support. Even some Democrats.)

Democrats “may not be willing to stand up to Al Gore, but many of them found it just as objectionable as Republicans do,” he said.
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As the story noted, there was a concert for Earth Day in 1990. I think 10,000 Maniacs played that gig. Anyway, Inhofe, still fuming over Gore's visit last week, is not going to let this issue slip away. And you'd think he'd have more important things to do.