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Jane Smiley:

"I plan not to lift a finger to help the State of Oklahoma if Senator Inhofe continues to reject global warming in the sorts of rude terms that he used with Al Gore last week. Same goes for the home districts in Texas of Ralph Hall and Joe Barton. The voters in Oklahoma and those particular districts in Texas are responsible for these clowns, and it is about time that they told them to put a lid on it.

"... In a democracy, the citizens are responsible. In the end, they can only plead that they were ignorant or misled or lied to or tricked for a few years. After that, it is their responsibility to get a clue and get rid of the officials who have been misleading them, or lying to them, or tricking them, and also the ones who are as dumb as a bag of hammers, as Senator Inhofe repeatedly reveals himself to be."