There is something about Oklahoma!
There must be something good in that wind that comes sweeping down the plain. Not a single county in the Sooner State went for Barack Obama in last fall’s election.
And while Oklahoma’s senior Senator is in Copenhagen trying to bring some sense to a politically correct multitude gathered there for the global warming conference, his junior colleague is manning the fort back in Washington, standing firm against the Democrats’ press to overhaul one-sixth of the American economy.
Time to sing a rousing salute to the state which gave us two men willing to stand athwart conventional wisdom yelling, “No.”
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Thank God for Oklahoma!!!!
Comment by Patrick — December 18, 2009 @ 5:16 pm - December 18, 2009
Well, there is at least one good thing I can say about one of the OK senators – I do respect Dr. Coburn for this (on CSPAN this morning)
“Said Coburn: “I try to write him about every week or two. Write him a note, encourage him. No one has a tougher job than he does… We came into the Senate together, and I just have a lot of admiration for him. I’m 180 degrees from him on policy on most issues. But I think he’s a wonderful man.”
Comment by Tano — December 18, 2009 @ 5:16 pm - December 18, 2009
I too was cheering Oklahoma whenI heard Sen. Coburn on c-span this morning. He did look a little weary (probably from having to listen to all the stupidity in the Senate) so I emailed him and encouraged him to continue the fight.
Comment by JGoodson — December 18, 2009 @ 6:24 pm - December 18, 2009
If Obama had more friends like Dr. Coburn and fewer like Jeremiah Wright, I think we’d be in good hands.
PS: Inhofe was the last good mayor Tulsa has had.
Comment by SoCalRobert — December 18, 2009 @ 7:57 pm - December 18, 2009
Oklahoma might become a refuge after things fall apart…
Comment by dymphna — December 18, 2009 @ 8:26 pm - December 18, 2009
How about this:
The Health Bill Is Scary
Government guidelines would likely have forbidden the test I used to discover Sheila’s cancer.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703514404574588842779569168.html
Comment by ThatGayConservative — December 18, 2009 @ 9:14 pm - December 18, 2009
No state has a better pair of senators than Oklahoma. Both are stand-up guys who are unafraid to articulate the conservative cause (and yet I think they both do it without being unnecessarily incendiary or rude). Sen. Inhofe was fighting the fight against global warming fraud before it was popular to do so, and even still, a lot of conservatives don’t have the backbone he has to point out how global warming alarmism is more about increasing the size of government than actually saving the planet. Sen. Coburn and Sen. DeMint have been, in my mind, the bright lights of the 2004 class, fighting for small government and not being just status quo Republicans. These are the sorts of guys that I think Republicans can rally around. To be sure, I didn’t agree with some of their comments about gay issues when they were running in 2004, but after five years as senators, they’ve shown that their priorities are almost entirely centered on issues of fiscal policy and the role of government, giving very little time to issues more likely to divide conservatives.
Comment by chad — December 18, 2009 @ 10:52 pm - December 18, 2009
#6
No. Not for that. That is a pack o’ lies.
Comment by Tano — December 18, 2009 @ 10:58 pm - December 18, 2009
Nice. Especially since the local yahoo politicians in Oklahoma worked really hard to pass a law to harass and demean women.
Comment by Kevin — December 18, 2009 @ 11:30 pm - December 18, 2009
And your link is bullshit. What’s more, it’s the type of liberal bullshit that winds up screwing over Americans that we get over and over and over again.
THAT’S why nobody’s buying into the fabricated hysteria the left is going for.
Now, care to spin Ben Nelson’s church getting involved?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — December 19, 2009 @ 12:13 am - December 19, 2009
You mean like calling a stewardess a BITCH?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — December 19, 2009 @ 12:13 am - December 19, 2009
Tano, media matters has as much credibility as Keith Olbermann has kindness.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — December 19, 2009 @ 2:09 am - December 19, 2009
Or talent. Or viewers.
BTW, I heard-tell that Joy Behar has more viewers than Madcow or that slob Sgt. Schultz.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — December 19, 2009 @ 3:47 am - December 19, 2009
I dunno, every time I hear anything from Oklahoma I think about the classic line from Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles.
Comment by Phelps — December 20, 2009 @ 12:59 am - December 20, 2009