A big part of the reason I haven’t been blogging much is that I just feel like I don’t have the ability or opportunity these days to do enough reading and research to post anything of value to the discussion. For example: The conservative conspiracy theory du jour, led by Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, [...]
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 got [...]
Ah, now that Sen. Inhofe has been re-elected, we can look forward to six more years of his silly yet dangerous shenanigans in the Senate. Even the Tulsa World reporter can’t resist a not so subtle poke at Oklahoma’s very own drama queen in D.C. as he reacts to the new fuel efficiency standards now [...]
Grassroots power. The Oklahoma Democratic Party is trying to keep funding the staff people that were part of Howard Dean’s 50-state grassroots party-building strategy. That program is being laid down, apparently — despite its demonstrable success for the past two campaign cycles. I could go off on that tangent for a rant, but back to [...]
The shame of western Oklahoma, The Oklahoman newspaper, has a semi-regular feature called “Monday Morning Quarterbacks,” which mostly just reviews conservative voices. The only time they quote liberals or progressives is to mock or refute them. Like today:
CURDLE YOUR YERDLE
The Left Wing is playing for keeps this election cycle. The king of liberal/progressive blogging, Markos Moulitsas rallies the troops at dailykos.com with his own adaptation of Knute Rockne. Libs must “do everything necessary allowable under the law to win because elections have consequences,” he writes. “This isn’t about who is most pure, but about taking the fight to the enemy … and fighting fire with fire.” Later Kos writes about having the “killer instinct,” rubbing salt in conservatives’ wounds and forcing them to go into debt. What’s next, burning their villages?
Umm…project much?
Esquire Magazine got the civic bug two years ago and started endorsing political candidates. And they didn’t do it half-ass, either, they endorsed in every single congressional district, up or down. Ditto this year, and in Oklahoma, they didn’t pull any punches:
Inhofe believes that 9/11 was divine retribution. He believes that our Middle East policy [...]
Update: I’ve reworked this post to be a letter to the editor of the Oklahoman. I tried to shorten it, but after much editing, cutting and added, it ended up exactly the same number of words. But it was a lot better. I’ll post the new version in a few days. I don’t want to [...]
Our own ultra-conservative stalwart is one of the few GOP members in high office willing to show their face at RNC, though doing so means swallowing his pride .
Sen. Jim Inhofe says he has made peace with John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, whom Inhofe has sparred with in the past over global warming and [...]
This is running on TV in Oklahoma, has been for about a month. I’m not sure of how heavy the rotation is, since I watch mostly just C-Span, MSNBC and Bravo for specific programs. But I see it frequently when I do watch. The production values are not the best, but the content is great [...]
