The last gasps of a dying chairmanship: Inhofe weighs in on the U.N. climate summit.

His biggest concern regarding the summit — which, by the way, he didn’t attend — was a children’s book (PDF) on climate change, which Inhofe claims is “brainwashing little kids.”

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Inhofe: “What we learned in Nairobi is … that the real focus has little to do with the fate of the planet and more to do with money — who has it and who wants it.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself, Jim.