We're taking a break from our long-running "Jim Inhofe Is Still An Idiot" series to break some actual non-idiotic Jim Inhofe news.
According to both national and local media reports, longtime senile Oklahoma Senator Jim Mountain Inhofe will announce on Monday that he's retiring at the end of the year.
Hearing that @JimInhofe - the 87-year-old Oklahoma senator first elected in 1994 - may resign in the next few days. Would trigger an intense campaign among Repubs in a red state where Senate seats don’t come along too often.
— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) February 24, 2022
There's been no official word on why Inhofe is stepping down, but some are speculating it's related to the health of him or his wife. It could also be that he's so old that radiocarbon dating won't even work on him, and he wants to spend his remaining few days flying planes upside down and hunting pigeons.
Since Inhofe won't technically retire until the end of the year, that means we'll be blessed with an extra-saucy how-far-right-can-you-go special election to fill his seat in November.
The typical batch of names who get floated around for Oklahoma elections are being floated around here – T.W. Shannon, MarcusWayne, Pinnell, etc. – but Inhofe has already thrown a curve snowball and endorsed one of his evil understudies for the job: