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Taxpayers….Get ready!
Despite crazed lunatic opinion leaders like the NY Times uber-liberal Thomas Friedman running around saying the sky is falling, the folks who actually run the country won a round with Tuesday’s rejection of the socialization of the nation’s mortgage banking industry.
Cheers to those who voted against the so-called bailout and jeers to those who voted “aye.” The vote clearly defined the difference between the big government crowd and conservatives. On this matter, party affiliation matters very little: true conservatives voted no, the others yes. And while a bailout of some sorts is inevitable, the ensuing bill will be far better than the Giveaway to Billionaires Act that went down in flames Tuesday.
Oklahomans know a little more than most with their past economic struggles, and voters are seething over the Republican-led giveaway of hard-earned tax dollars to Oklahoma fat cats in this year’s legislative session.
Just to set the record straight, while Friedman and Speaker Pelosi and the cartoonish Barney Frank try to spin their way out of this by blaming everybody but themselves, even Frank’s own liberal hometown paper knows who is to blame. The idiotic Friedman blames those pesky voters, but this video proves over and over who really was looking the other way as the sub-prime mortgage house of cards was collapsing.
Meanwhile the action shifts to the Senate today. But our hats are off to congressional delegation members Mary Fallin, John Sullivan and Frank Lucas.
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Oklahoma Republicans Tom Cole, Mary Fallin, Frank Lucas and John Sullivan each voted to uphold the veto while Democrat Dan Boren voted to override. The final vote was 273-156 with 286 votes needed to override.
TULSA, Okla.(AP) A spokeswoman for Congressman John Sullivan says the Oklahoma Republican is apologizing for describing critics of his Tulsa Race Riot legislation as — quote — “bigots.”
Christina Tuff says Sullivan chose to apologize in a letter to the editor that was published in the Sunday Tulsa World because of previous letters the newspaper had published on his comments.
Sullivan’s apology grew out of reactions to comments he made last month when he introduced a bill to make a memorial to the 1921 riot part of the National Park Service.
During an interview on the legislation, the congressman conceded that some people in Tulsa resist that plan and said about them — quote — “they are either bigots or they don’t understand.”
The remarks generated a host of letters to the newspaper, prompting Sullivan to issue an apology.
TULSA, Okla.(AP) A spokeswoman for Congressman John Sullivan says the Oklahoma Republican is apologizing for describing critics of his Tulsa Race Riot legislation as — quote — “bigots.”
Christina Tuff says Sullivan chose to apologize in a letter to the editor that was published in the Sunday Tulsa World because of previous letters the newspaper had published on his comments.
Sullivan’s apology grew out of reactions to comments he made last month when he introduced a bill to make a memorial to the 1921 riot part of the National Park Service.
During an interview on the legislation, the congressman conceded that some people in Tulsa resist that plan and said about them — quote — “they are either bigots or they don’t understand.”
The remarks generated a host of letters to the newspaper, prompting Sullivan to issue an apology.