… at cruel, corrupt “Christian” “conservative” Republicans on full display across America. Hell, even the original Republican fearmonger Ronald Reagan is weeping, if the opinon of Nancy on the matter is any indication.
Add the following example to the list of suffering people being dismissed, mocked and condemned by their fellow citizens, most of whom probably call themselves conservatives… Read the rest
… on health care and everything else.
Edward Kennedy wanted all Americans to have access to the kind of health care he had and to make sure everyone had a safety net in place that allowed them to take the kind of risks necessary to become a millionaire if that’s what they wanted to do. His conservative enemies,
… Read the rest
Posted by on 27 Aug 2009 by
Rena in
Oklahoma,
Politics and Government
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Henry Waxman, is one of the House committees that has produced a bill to address health care reform. Waxman is a fierce advocate of real reform, and he and his committee staff have come up with a great way to demonstrate the benefits the bill would produce broken down by congressional… Read the rest
Posted by on 27 Aug 2009 by
Rena in
Oklahoma,
Politics and Government
What an ass.
Really, what does he do all day, besides kissing the butts of the big oil lobbyists?
In response to this fine example of Oklahoma crude, the Oklahoma Democratic Party has a petition to demand that Inhofe “read the bill!”
Here’s what I posted as a comment as I signed:
Pointless exercise, since this cretin just
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I know you all will be shocked by this, but The Oklahoman has used the occasion of Ted Kennedy’s death to question his political contributions to the nation and bash liberals.
“…estimating Kennedy’s historic imprint is difficult — and not just because we and millions of Americans not living on either coast disagreed with him on the size and… Read the rest
This is the now famous clip of Oklahoma’s cruel doctor, Senator Coburn, responding to a constituent’s suffering with such utterly cold political pandering that even after years of Republican meanness on full display, most of the nation gasped in shock.
Which is it, Senator, is she on her own like the insurance companies decree in cases like hers (since… Read the rest
Posted by on 25 Aug 2009 by
Rena in
Geekery,
Oklahoma
I don’t know if this really qualifies as THE ugliest in the entire state, but I think it’s a serious contender in the crowded Government category.
The screen shot below really doesn’t do this inside page of the Canadian County web site justice. All those state flags are waving!
The front page only has two waving flags, which is… Read the rest
Posted by on 23 Aug 2009 by
Rena in
Uncategorized
I got the following email from MoveOn.org this morning, but I’m always getting grandiose action items from them that don’t take into account that Oklahoma has completely hopeless representation in DC. So I wondered if there really would be such an event in OK.
Dear MoveOn member,
August is the make-or-break month for health care reform.
Can you
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Posted by on 17 Aug 2009 by
Rena in
Tech tips
Several developments in this short-lived trial.
The most serious is that the feed produces hotlinked photos. If read in a feedreader, that’d be fine, but even with my minuscule readership, this is not acceptable practice for a blogger. I could use CSS to keep the images from displaying (and have done so with the links already imported), but… Read the rest