OK Sen. Coburn Will Demand Cuts to Pay for Tornado Relief

Heartless far right bastard stays consistent
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Well, at least Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn is consistent — consistently heartless, even when it comes to his own constituents.

Never any hesitation about funding wars, bombs, and destruction — but people rendered homeless by natural disasters? Suddenly the right is very concerned about how it will be paid for.

And where do you think these “cuts” of Coburn’s will come from? If you guessed social programs like Medicaid, give yourself a gold star.

The tornado damage near Oklahoma City is still being assessed and the death toll is expected to rise, but already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for with cuts elsewhere.

CQ Roll Call reporter Jennifer Scholtes wrote for cq.com Monday evening that Coburn said he would “absolutely” demand offsets for any federal aid that Congress provides.

Coburn added, Scholtes wrote, that it is too early to guess at a damage toll but that he knows for certain he will fight to make sure disaster funding that the federal government contributes is paid for. It’s a position he has taken repeatedly during his career when Congress debates emergency funding for disaster aid.

Scholtes points out that Coburn was one of 36 Republican senators who voted against disaster funding for Superstorm Sandy in January.

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82 comments
1 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:13:58am

Close Fort Sill.

2 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:14:35am

Now we get the great high comedy of liberals fighting hard to get aid sent to Oklahoma, where large numbers of people think FEMA exist solely to take their guns away.

3 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:14:56am

Give Oklahoma back to the Cherokees.

4 iossarian  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:15:26am

Talk about judo politics! First libs were all “hee hee, now Coburn’s got to choose between being a hypocrite and asking for aid.”

But then Coburn was all: “OK libs, now you have to pick between stiffing Oklahoma and cutting Medicaid! And no-one can tell that I’m the dickhead here because the media can’t report a fucking thing to save its life.”

Your move libs!

What a dick.

5 erik_t  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:16:07am

And it sounds like he’s being hung out to dry. Not even Inhofe has his back.

Consistency is not always a virtue. Coburn is an unbelievable piece of shit, and I hope this bites him in the ass, hard.

6 Capitalist Tool  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:16:27am

re: #3 Sol Berdinowitz

Give Oklahoma back to the Cherokees.

The Osage might have something to say about that, and the Cheyenne and the Comanche and Kiowa and…

7 nines09  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:16:43am

Consistent Prick. You voted him in, you got him. He’d pull the plug on Grandma and go get a pizza. Asshole.

8 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:16:50am

Senator Tom Coburn (Lawful Evil, Oklahoma), showing us that consistency is definitely not the hobgoblin of his little mind…

But hey, how often do you get to be an elected official with the big brass ones who holds your own constituents hostage just for the sake of pissing off the Democrats who are begging for the chance to actually help them??

9 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:17:27am

re: #6 Capitalist Tool

The Osage might have something to say about that, and the Cheyenne and the Comanche and Kiowa and…

Let them have a Paul Revere and the Raiders song named after them, then…

/

10 Mike Lamb  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:17:42am

But he’s not even consistent. Betty Cracker posted a link at Balloon Juice that talked about Coburn delaying disaster relief to other states, while lining up for relief to OK without any conditions.

This one is amazing to me due to the timing. I figured this kind of grandstanding would be coming, but I thought some level of decency would cause the austerians to wait a couple of weeks.

11 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:17:51am

re: #5 erik_t

And it sounds like he’s being hung out to dry. Not even Inhofe has his back.

Consistency is not always a virtue. Coburn is an unbelievable piece of shit, and I hope this bites him in the ass, hard.

I heard he is not running in 2016, so he literally does not have to give a fuck about the voters he pisses on.

12 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:17:52am

Per Coburn’s logic, why should the federal government to take the hit for services Oklahoma could not provide for itself?

Doesn’t sound very self-sufficient.

13 Mike Lamb  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:18:37am

re: #5 erik_t

It won’t. He’s retiring in 2016. All it’s doing is getting him a bigger salary when he goes to work for a Koch funded lobbying group.

14 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:19:04am

Let’s do a spending increase, too. On Oklahoma. As well as the relief, let’s pay for some really badass shelters with a dual purpose of some sort, for economy’s sake, and let’s also fund more research into tornadoes. All this money can go to Oklahoma and other red states, that’s fine with me.

15 wrenchwench  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:19:18am

Tom Coburn (R not-OK)

16 lawhawk  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:20:02am

Give him points for consistency - and being consistently wrong on the budget. Many of the very programs that he’s going to seek offsetting cuts from are the same programs that his own constituents will seek (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security), so in the end, his constituents end up on the short end of the stick.

Instead of clean up/down on disaster aid, he’s going to demand cuts? What’s he going to do when Democrats don’t give that to him? He’s going to complain that the Democrats are holding back on disaster aid for his state? (Well, yes, of course he’ll do that - because it’s about the politics, not about the governance).

17 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:20:29am

re: #13 Mike Lamb

It won’t. He’s retiring in 2016. All it’s doing is getting him a bigger salary when he goes to work for a Koch funded lobbying group.

Yep. He is angling for Heritage or Americans For Prosperity at this point, and he is willing to do it while his dead constituents are still being dug out of the rubble.

The man is actually engaging in sociopathic behavior.

18 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:22:26am

re: #16 lawhawk

Give him points for consistency - and being consistently wrong on the budget. Many of the very programs that he’s going to seek offsetting cuts from are the same programs that his own constituents will seek (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security), so in the end, his constituents end up on the short end of the stick.

Instead of clean up/down on disaster aid, he’s going to demand cuts? What’s he going to do when Democrats don’t give that to him? He’s going to complain that the Democrats are holding back on disaster aid for his state? (Well, yes, of course he’ll do that - because it’s about the politics, not about the governance).

There are an awful lot of angry democrats who still have very, very raw feelings about Coburn and Inhofe and their attempts to block aid after Sandy.

I understand that calls are going to reps in the Northeast right now to give Coburn what he asked for:

Nothing at all. No cuts and no aid.

19 lawhawk  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:23:12am

re: #14 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Let’s do a spending increase, too. On Oklahoma. As well as the relief, let’s pay for some really badass shelters with a dual purpose of some sort, for economy’s sake, and let’s also fund more research into tornadoes. All this money can go to Oklahoma and other red states, that’s fine with me.

The NSSL is in Norman. It’s there for a reason…

20 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:23:32am

re: #18 celticdragon

Basically, Coburn is saying:

“Give my state money, and take it away from other people.”

21 Capitalist Tool  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:24:18am

Looking in my thesaurus for polite ‘what the fuck’

22 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:24:45am

re: #20 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Basically, Coburn is saying:

“Give my state money, and take it away from other people.”

That is exactly what it amounts to.

I want the aid to be taken off of your dinner plate and out of your medicare.

23 Mike Lamb  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:25:09am

re: #20 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Basically, Coburn is saying:

“Give my state money, and take it away from other people.”

There’s no “basically” about it. That’s exactly what he’s saying.

24 Targetpractice  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:25:24am

re: #20 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Basically, Coburn is saying:

“Give my state money, and take it away from other people.”

Isn’t that…what’s it called…or right, “redistribution”?

25 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:25:25am

re: #3 Sol Berdinowitz

Give Oklahoma back to the Cherokees.

As bad as the tornado was, it would have decimated one of the reservations. The Indian Commission gets literally nothing and the state budget makes rather combative references (“defending water rights”) towards the tribes.

26 iossarian  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:25:54am

re: #20 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Basically, Coburn is saying:

“Give my state money, and take it away from other people.”

Exactly. But we can be more specific given his voting record: take it away from poor people.

By definition the money will come from the US in general, so it will be “taken away” from the rest of the US, where it could have been spent. The point is that he wants it to come out of offsetting cuts to programs that benefit the poor.

27 nines09  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:26:10am

Coburn wears a tie to keep his foreskin from coming up over his face and suffocating him. Oklahoma has their own small Nero.

28 Capitalist Tool  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:27:07am

re: #19 lawhawk

The NSSL is in Norman. It’s there for a reason…

Yep. Their good work has saved many of us more than a few times. They just keep getting better… the weather technology advances get tried out here, first.

29 Bulworth  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:27:24am

It’s not really much of a demand for Coburn to make, since he wants Medicaid and other social spending programs cut yesterday, today, and tomorrow anyway. But it’s an interesting hostage-taking strategery: cut Medicaid or else my state won’t get any disaster relief.

30 wrenchwench  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:27:44am

re: #21 Capitalist Tool

Looking in my thesaurus for polite ‘what the fuck’

Here you go:

re: #27 BLUE POINT NINE FOUR TWO SIX FIVE

Coburn wears a tie to keep his foreskin from coming up over his face and suffocating him. Oklahoma has their own small Nero.

31 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:27:46am

I have an novel idea. Disaster aid to Oklahoma, no strings attached.

For fuck’s sake, can I get an aye?

32 FemNaziBitch  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:27:52am

I think I’m in love

Let’s keep the grown-ups from ruining our young people!

you?

33 lawhawk  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:28:52am

re: #18 celticdragon

I’m still pissed at the GOP in all its audacious smugness that delayed Sandy aid for months - when other natural disaster aid bills were passed without preconditions within days. It was absolutely unconscionable but that’s what the GOP did. And it was hypocritical too (as I frequently pointed out then as now) when you had local reps who were demanding their own disaster aid (and touting it on their govt webpages) without any preconditions or offsets, while demanding offsets for Sandy.

Natural disasters happen every year, and it affects the entire nation - every part of the country has sustained some manner of natural disaster over the past couple of years - hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, drought, etc. The aid should flow as fast as possible to maximize the assistance to those in need.

This tornado quite likely did multi-billion dollars worth of damage. I don’t think the folks who need to rebuild ought to wait months for the aid, but that’s up to their GOP Congress critters. If they demand offsets and make unreasonable demands - exactly what Coburn is proposing, they’re going to get nothing. And it will drag out for as long as it takes.

Straight aid with no offsets? Let that flow right on to them. The president will sign it as soon as Congress passes it.

34 Capitalist Tool  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:29:14am

re: #20 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Basically, Coburn is saying:

“Give my state money, and take it away from other people.”

That’s just about the definition of taxation.

35 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:29:49am

re: #28 Capitalist Tool

Yep. Their good work has saved many of us more than a few times. They just keep getting better… the weather technology advances get tried out here, first.

Sadly, they’re going to struggle in the upcoming years after the cuts the GOP has insisted on and the blocking of sattelite replacement programs.

There will be less warning, and more deaths.

36 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:29:59am

re: #26 iossarian

Exactly. But we can be more specific given his voting record: take it away from poor people.

By definition the money will come from the US in general, so it will be “taken away” from the rest of the US, where it could have been spent. The point is that he wants it to come out of offsetting cuts to programs that benefit the poor.

Anything at all to wage his cold war on people in the blue states.

Look at the comments on his facebook page (sorry no link).

Ten to one he is being mocked mercilessly, but the other ten percent is pure HATE TEH GUBMINT YOU GO TOM!!! wingnutpolooza.

And those are the people who go to GOP primaries and pride themselves on spitting on help while they sulk in the rubble.

37 palomino  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:30:00am

Fortunately Dems control the Senate, so Coburn’s offset demands probably won’t make it through that chamber. But the GOP House, as usual, is prone to such extremism (as we saw with their Sandy vote). So who knows what will happen there, but I’d bet they won’t take the same hard line they did on Sandy; it bit them in the ass with everyone but tea partiers.

OK is one of the poorer states in the US. It’s a bit like WV, just not quite as bad. It’s overwhelmingly white, older, poorer, less educated. And very Republican. Ironically, the Dems will likely fight harder for federal help for OK than the Republicans. It’s this simple thing called giving a shit about people in need.

38 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:31:33am

re: #31 dragonath

I have an novel idea. Disaster aid to Oklahoma, no strings attached.

For fuck’s sake, can I get an aye?

Let’s see if Reid brings up a clean bill. As others have noted, Coburn knows the state will get the aid anyway, so he gets to pull this shit and he will not pay a price for it since he is effectively a lame duck.

39 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:31:42am

re: #34 Capitalist Tool

That’s just about the definition of taxation.

No, it’s really not. The people in his state pay taxes too.

He’s saying that he wants the government to stop spending money on other people, in order to help his state in its our of need.

Really, there is no connection between the two things. He wants aid for his state. He should get it. We spend money on other people too. Those expenditures should be judged in their own right.

Tying them together as Coburn is doing is repellent in the extreme.

40 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:32:48am

I seem to be confusing the actor with the senator.

41 Capitalist Tool  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:33:05am

re: #39 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

No, it’s really not. The people in his state pay taxes too.

He’s saying that he wants the government to stop spending money on other people, in order to help his state in its our of need.

Really, there is no connection between the two things. He wants aid for his state. He should get it. We spend money on other people too. Those expenditures should be judged in their own right.

Tying them together as Coburn is doing is repellent in the extreme.

Sometimes, all I can do is just shake my head and wonder…

42 palomino  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:35:29am

re: #27 BLUE POINT NINE FOUR TWO SIX FIVE

Coburn wears a tie to keep his foreskin from coming up over his face and suffocating him. Oklahoma has their own small Nero.

I’ve never quite gotten the relationship between Obama and Coburn. Supposedly they get along quite well and each considers the other a friend; indeed, I’ve often heard Coburn referred to as the Republican in the Senate that Obama likes most (now that Lugar is gone).

43 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:36:02am

re: #41 Capitalist Tool

No state has a lock on natural disasters. If we were using the same logic as Coburn is using, Oklahoma would have had federal cutbacks in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

44 celticdragon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:36:07am

re: #39 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

No, it’s really not. The people in his state pay taxes too.

He’s saying that he wants the government to stop spending money on other people, in order to help his state in its our of need.

Really, there is no connection between the two things. He wants aid for his state. He should get it. We spend money on other people too. Those expenditures should be judged in their own right.

Tying them together as Coburn is doing is repellent in the extreme.

He is implicitly messaging that “My people should get the help that those moochers in the blue states do not deserve, and I want it at their expense”

It is profoundly anti-American, and it is profoundly evil. I know of no other way to describe it.

45 efuseakay  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:36:55am

Lets start with his salary, retirement, social security, 401k, and all other investments he has made while on tax payer payroll.

46 Capitalist Tool  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:38:16am

re: #44 celticdragon

He is implicitly messaging that “My people should get the help that those moochers in the blue states do not deserve, and I want it at their expense”

It is profoundly anti-American, and it is profoundly evil. I know of no other way to describe it.

profoundly ‘what the fuck’

47 Capitalist Tool  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:40:43am

i really need to just leave, now, before I really cut loose. My keyboard is in danger of catchin fire.
Sen. Coburn, what were you thinking?

48 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:41:01am

re: #44 celticdragon

Exactly. The flip side of that is “why should we subsidize a state infested by tornadoes”, which is a real dickish attitude.

Every goddamn state has natural disasters. We’re in this together. This is the purpose of the federal government— versus clowns like Coburn whose aim is to systematically set the government against itself.

49 FemNaziBitch  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:45:01am

Obdi, It’s the Financial Times, I don’t know if you can access it.

Italy faces pressure over Roma ‘ghetto’ campsLink

50 Romantic Heretic  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:46:56am

re: #27 BLUE POINT NINE FOUR TWO SIX FIVE

Coburn wears a tie to keep his foreskin from coming up over his face and suffocating him.

That, sir, is one of the most wonderful insults I’ve ever read. Well done!

51 lawhawk  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:48:12am

re: #48 dragonath

Exactly. The flip side is that is “why should we subsidize a state infested by tornadoes”, which is a real dickish attitude.

Every goddamn state has natural disasters. We’re in this together. This is the purpose of the federal government— versus clowns like Coburn whose aim is to systematically set the government against itself.

Starve the government, claim that the ensuing response is inept as proof to engage in further cuts.

Except that the cuts have dire and direct consequences. Don’t fund NOAA, NWS, NSSL, SPL, and other weather/climate agencies, and the basic research into things like flooding, severe storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes don’t get done. The satellites that help predict when and where severe storms occur don’t get created and launched and manned. Data doesn’t get crunched.

Predictive models don’t get built, updated, or replaced with newer and more powerful models.

Oh wait, we’ve already seen that - the NOAA admits that they didn’t have as good a storm modeling system as they should have during Sandy - their NOAA models weren’t as accurate as the European models, which are far more powerful and break down the atmosphere into smaller chunks so that they can suss out nuances better than our formerly premiere systems. It’s why the weather forecasters kept talking about relying on the European model; the US ones weren’t as accurate in predicting where and how Sandy would curl back in towards the Jersey shore.

That’s what Coburn is offering. That’s his worldview. He thinks that there’s stuff to cut at the NOAA, when all those cuts have done is limit just how good our predictive capabilities are, and holding back better storm warnings.

The folks in Moore had a couple of minutes of warning ahead of the storm striking. Add a few more minutes in? That improves the chances of finding a safe place to hole up, reduces the amount of injuries, and keeps more people out of harms’ way.

52 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:48:57am

re: #49 FemNaziBitch

I can’t, but I’ll find it elsewhere.

53 nines09  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:49:06am

re: #42 palomino

Then Obama needs to pay attention. He seems to continually look for that bridge that GOP burnt down 5 years ago. It’s not there. He has no “friends” on the right side of that aisle.

54 lawhawk  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:49:42am

Hypocrisy isn’t confined to Coburn. His fellow GOPers are doing quite well in that department today too:

55 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:50:30am

re: #1 Vicious Babushka

Close Fort Sill.

I agree.

56 nines09  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:51:25am

re: #50 Romantic Heretic

That, sir, is one of the most wonderful insults I’ve ever read. Well done!

Thank you, sir. I’ll be appearing here all week. Tip heavy and get drunk and be somebody. Try the chicken. It tastes like….chicken.

57 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:51:41am

Inhofe: Oklahoma Disaster Relief Will Be Different Than ‘Slush Fund’ For Sandy (VIDEO)

Slush fund?! Can’t these guys see anything outside of a political prism?

58 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:51:44am

re: #54 lawhawk

Hypocrisy isn’t confined to Coburn. His fellow GOPers are doing quite well in that department today too:

He’s worse than that even:

In a disgusting display, even by TEApublican standards, Stephen Fincher (R-TN) quoted the “Book of Thessalonians” from the New Testament to justify letting the poor starve. Fincher smugly stated on the House floor:

The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.

I know what Stephen Fincher can eat.

59 Ian G.  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:53:58am

When your religion is based on the idea that gub’mint spending is the Great Satan, expect every reaction to be in furthering the goal of defeating the Great Satan. We should expect nothing less from a fanatic like Coburn.

And this idiotic position that Coburn has taken is still better than Inhofe’s hypocrisy.

60 lawhawk  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:56:57am

re: #57 dragonath

Inhofe: Oklahoma Disaster Relief Will Be Different Than ‘Slush Fund’ For Sandy (VIDEO)

Slush fund?! Can’t these guys see anything outside of a political prism?

They talk about a slush fund, except that the bills as passed were all aid. And even those parts that they considered slush weren’t - part included supplemental assistance for disaster areas before Sandy. The NFIP isn’t a slush fund. Fixing the mass transit system in NYC isn’t a slush fund - and it carries more people than live in many of these idiot GOPer districts each and every day.

The aid is given in block grants, and without proper oversight, some amount of money could be misspent or done improperly. That happened after Katrina and other natural disasters, but that shouldn’t hold up all disaster aid to a region. That’s exactly what the GOP did.

61 A Mom Anon  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:57:40am

re: #57 dragonath

No. Nope. Not ever. Never.

62 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:58:16am

re: #60 lawhawk

They talk about a slush fund, except that the bills as passed were all aid. And even those parts that they considered slush weren’t - part included supplemental assistance for disaster areas before Sandy. The NFIP isn’t a slush fund. Fixing the mass transit system in NYC isn’t a slush fund - and it carries more people than live in many of these idiot GOPer districts each and every day.

The aid is given in block grants, and without proper oversight, some amount of money could be misspent or done improperly. That happened after Katrina and other natural disasters, but that shouldn’t hold up all disaster aid to a region. That’s exactly what the GOP did.

I guess this makes Gov Christie a slush fund manager…

We can see how ugly this is all going to get by 2016.

63 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:58:16am

re: #59 Ian G.

Inhofe is no better. Here he is, pushing the same debunked agitprop that drove everybody in New Jersey insane in the wake of Sandy.

[Sandy aid] was totally different,” Inhofe said on MSNBC Tuesday morning. “They were getting things, for instance, that was supposed to be in New Jersey. They had things in the Virgin Islands. They were fixing roads there, they were putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C. Everybody was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. That won’t happen in Oklahoma.”

I hope Governor Fallin delivers a Christie style beatdown on these guys but I’m not optimistic.

64 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 21, 2013 10:59:45am
65 lawhawk  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:00:52am

re: #63 dragonath

They were fixing things caused by natural disasters that hadn’t been picked up in prior disaster aid packages, and rolled into the Sandy aid. Some of that got stripped out of the final passed legislation. Out of the $60b package, IIRC there was something like $400m that was not directly Sandy aid (and that included disaster aid for other prior declared disasters).

66 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:01:18am

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

Libs disarmed the good tornadoes preventing them from stopping the bad one.
/// :P

67 Ian G.  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:02:16am

On another note, there’s a large tornado watch box covering much of Texas (including the metroplex) but no tornado warnings so far. No severe thunderstorm warnings, even.

srh.noaa.gov

Zeus willing, we’ll have an atmospheric bust today.

68 Tigger2  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:02:22am

re: #4 iossarian

Talk about judo politics! First libs were all “hee hee, now Coburn’s got to choose between being a hypocrite and asking for aid.”

But then Coburn was all: “OK libs, now you have to pick between stiffing Oklahoma and cutting Medicaid! And no-one can tell that I’m the dickhead here because the media can’t report a fucking thing to save its life.”

Your move libs!

What a dick.

Lets start by offering up oil subsidies and other stuff like that to offset the aid.

69 FemNaziBitch  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:03:45am
70 Mike Lamb  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:03:57am

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

Given Twitter’s character limitations, I’d suggest Corey refrain from redundancies such as “crazy wing of”…

71 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:04:05am

Man, and liberals get accused of giving “Red States” a hard time. Oklahoma’s senators are something else.

72 AlexRogan  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:05:06am

re: #63 dragonath

Inhofe is no better. Here he is, pushing the same debunked agitprop that drove everybody in New Jersey insane in the wake of Sandy.

I hope Governor Fallin delivers a Christie style beatdown on these guys but I’m not optimistic.

I heard a bit of Gov. Fallin’s speech from Moore a while ago; she thanked FEMA Director Craig Fugate (who is there with her) and President Obama for their quick responses and offers of assistance.

Maybe I’m being a jaded cynic, but I’m betting the TPers are gonna give her the same treatment Chris Christie got after Sandy.

73 Ian G.  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:08:06am

re: #72 AlexRogan

Yup, and this being Oklahoma and not New Jersey, she’ll probably end up primaried for giving a word of praise to the Marxist Kenyan usurper.

74 AlexRogan  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:08:52am

re: #71 dragonath

Man, and liberals get accused of giving “Red States” a hard time. Oklahoma’s senators are something else.

Yeah, Coburn and Inhofe are doing their best (pre-reformed) Ebenezer Scrooge impressions.

75 dragonath  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:10:46am

re: #73 Ian G.

Interestingly enough, the last governor of Oklahoma was a Democrat.

76 makeitstop  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:15:21am

Today’s anti-Coburn: Kevin Durant.

How can you not love this guy? The 24-year-old leader of the Oklahoma City Thunder is giving $1 million to help the relief efforts in Moore, OK following yesterday’s devastating tornado, according to the Red Cross.

I am moved by Durant’s generosity. Coburn could take a lesson from this kid.

77 FemNaziBitch  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:17:35am
78 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:18:36am

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

HAARP!!11ty!

79 jaunte  Tue, May 21, 2013 11:36:30am

Charles P. Pierce: Storm Clouds

“…This is a guy who, one day after a devastating natural disaster killed his own constitutents, said he will not vote to allevate their suffering unless he can inflict some pain on someone somewhere else in the country. And his spokesman defends this as a matter of principle, and uses the worst act of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States as a salutary example. (And the link demonstrates that Coburn’s aversion to tossing money down various ratholes is not universal.) Does Senator Coburn really believe you can budget for the unthinkable? That tornadoes are zero-sum events? That you can horse-trade on human suffering as though it were a line-item on a transportation rider? I no longer am willing to try to understand how people like this think. They are monsters and they operate on their own monstrous imperatives.”
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80 MikeTheModerateDemocrat  Tue, May 21, 2013 12:02:51pm

You call him far right, but what’s scary is that Coburn is Nelson Rockefeller compared to OK’s other senator.

81 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Tue, May 21, 2013 1:06:44pm

re: #56 BLUE POINT NINE FOUR TWO SIX FIVE

Thank you, sir. I’ll be appearing here all week. Tip heavy and get drunk and be somebody. Try the chicken. It tastes like….chicken.

Last time I had chicken it tasted like rattlesnake. It was very disconcerting.

82 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, May 22, 2013 3:03:46am

re: #3 Sol Berdinowitz

The Cherokee were forced into OK by the white men from their homelands in what is now NC and the surrounding area. They don’t have an ancestral claim to OK.

Does the name “Trail of Tears” ring a bell?


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