Lou Dobbs Explodes: ‘Who The Hell Does This President Think He Is!?!’

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Birther Lou Dobbs and climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) are concerned that President Barack Obama is trying to turn America into a monarchy. Appearing on Dobbs’ radio show on Tuesday, Inhofe argued President Obama doesn’t have the authority to make any commitments on behalf of the United States during the international climate treaty negotiations next week in Copenhgen, Denmark.

Obama will “make the statement that he will commit ourselves to the emission standards that were in the Markey bill,” Inhofe argued, but “he can’t do that,” because only Congressional action can create a legally binding international commitment. Dobbs then exploded, swearing, “Who the hell does this president think he is?”

DOBBS: Who the hell does this president think he is?

INHOFE: I don’t know, because you can’t do that. And I think it’s certainly disingenuous to mislead countries into thinking that a president … You know, this is not a kingdom. He’s not able to do that.

DOBBS: Not yet!

Despite the anti-monarchist fears of Dobbs and Inhofe, the White House made clear that any commitment President Obama makes to address the climate threat at Copenhagen is a “provisional target” that is “in line with current legislation in both chambers of Congress” and that the “President is working closely with Congress to pass energy and climate legislation as soon as possible.”

Dobbs and Inhofe are two of America’s most prominent conspiracy theorists. Dobbs doubts whether Obama is a natural-born American citizen, and Inhofe believes the overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming is a hoax. It’s not much of a surprise that they hatched a new conspiracy theory when they got together.

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He's the President. He can do certain things. Where were they when Bush was running rampant??

[imdjh]

1. Global Warming is passé.

[Viking12]

7. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

[imdjh]

14. clever

[StarfarerBill]

2. They were cheering Bush on, of course.

Partisanship: a virtue when practiced by conservatives; evil incarnate when practiced by progressives.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Dobbs and Inhoffe are not up on their Constitution...

The President can negotiate treaties and the Senate has the power to approve them. It is not rocket science.

[Viking12]

10. Article II, Section 2

"He (the president) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties,"

[Ozymanithrax]

15. Exactly.

You would think that people like Dobbs and Inhoffe would understand that.

[PVnRT]

4. Were they in the same room?

If so, I'm surprised that they didn't form a singularity of stupid.

[mn9driver]

5. Here's an excerpt from a document that Lou seems to not have read:

"...{The President} shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties,..."

-Article 2, Section 2, Constitution of the United States

Why are these ignorant and insane people on my TV?

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Just trying to stir the pot among their ignorant viewing audience, most likely.

[havocmom]

6. Have they been in comas for the past 8 years?

One hopes Dobbs' doctor gets him on meds to get his blood pressure down before he gives himself a stroke with all the baseless anger.

[BlueMTexpat]

17. You are much too kind. n/t

[Orsino]

8. Only Congress can declare war, too, Lou. n/t

[blogslut]

11. I miss the "Guess Lou's hair-rinse shade" game

Oh well. Nice to know he's still good for the "point-and-laugh" game. :)

[rhett o rick]

12. Lou knows he is rapidly becoming irrelevant and has to step up the hate. nt

[ecstatic]

13. umm... he probably thinks he is President of the United States?

:shrug: Just a guess... could be wrong of course.

[Bitwit1234]

16. So bush made his decisions (he was a republican) BUT

Obama can't make decisions (he's a democrat). should he go to a**wipes in the senate like Innononofe and ask permission to do something. Boy we didn't' see that during bush's reign.

[walldude]

18. They can stop worrying.. Obama can just add a signing statement

to whatever he's doing. They seemed ok with that when Bush did it to exempt himself and his administration from any new laws.