The Grapevine reccommends Steve Fairs latest "Tort Reform Needed in Oklahoma" at: < http://www.stevefair.blogspot.com/>
Please check the Ethics reports for legislative candidates in your district. The Trial Lawyer lobby is not going gentle into that good night. They are contributing large amounts to candidates who if elected will work to stop tort reform! To check the candidates in your area, click on link:
< http://www.state.ok.us/~ethics/>
This election cycle will also be a good opportunity for the replacing (voting-out) of Henry appointments to various postitions in state government. ie: Treasurer, Corporation Commissioner...etc. The people need to make these 'appointments' at the ballot box!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Sen. Coburn having medical tests...
From The Hill and OKC news line.......Sen. Tom Coburn of Muskogee has been tested for an irregular heartbeat.
Spokesman John Hart says Coburn was tested Friday at a Washington area hospital but has not been admitted.
The Oklahoman reported from its Washington bureau that Hart said the Republican senator is being tested for common arrhythmia and expects to return to the Senate Saturday.
The 60-year-old Coburn had a benign tumor removed from his pituitary gland last summer. He had colon cancer in 2003 and a malignant melanoma in 1975.
[ed] We certainly all wish the Senator well.
Spokesman John Hart says Coburn was tested Friday at a Washington area hospital but has not been admitted.
The Oklahoman reported from its Washington bureau that Hart said the Republican senator is being tested for common arrhythmia and expects to return to the Senate Saturday.
The 60-year-old Coburn had a benign tumor removed from his pituitary gland last summer. He had colon cancer in 2003 and a malignant melanoma in 1975.
[ed] We certainly all wish the Senator well.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
OK's Coburn driving 'Dirty' Harry Reid Nuts!
"Majority Leader Harry Reid has had it up to here with [Oklahoma Senator] Tom Coburn, the Senate's scourge of excessive spending and pork-barrel earmarks. Mr. Reid is telling reporters he will no longer tolerate the Oklahoma Republican blocking about 100 bills using the power Senate rules give individual member to stop legislation from coming to a floor vote.
Mr. Coburn objects to many of the bills because he says they would enrich special interests and private developers at the expense of taxpayers.
"So Mr. Reid is taking the unusual step of assembling a package of bills that Mr. Coburn has stopped, forming an omnibus bill and ramming them through the Senate before it leaves for its August break. 'For those of you who may not know this, you cannot negotiate with Coburn,' Mr. Reid told reporters. 'It's something that you learn over the years, that it's a waste of time.'
"Mr. Reid's decision now puts added pressure on Mr. Coburn's fellow Republican senators. An omnibus bill can proceed to a floor vote if 60 Senators agree to cut off debate. With many GOP Senators having inserted provisions into the bills Mr. Coburn is blocking, they will be torn between supporting their colleague in his fight against excessive spending or risking losing projects for their state. Mr. Reid's move is a clever way to force Republicans to choose between their self-proclaimed principles and pork. It will be interesting to see just how many side with Democrats in their effort to roll over Mr. Coburn."
- John Fund, Political Diary, 7/15/08
Mr. Coburn objects to many of the bills because he says they would enrich special interests and private developers at the expense of taxpayers.
"So Mr. Reid is taking the unusual step of assembling a package of bills that Mr. Coburn has stopped, forming an omnibus bill and ramming them through the Senate before it leaves for its August break. 'For those of you who may not know this, you cannot negotiate with Coburn,' Mr. Reid told reporters. 'It's something that you learn over the years, that it's a waste of time.'
"Mr. Reid's decision now puts added pressure on Mr. Coburn's fellow Republican senators. An omnibus bill can proceed to a floor vote if 60 Senators agree to cut off debate. With many GOP Senators having inserted provisions into the bills Mr. Coburn is blocking, they will be torn between supporting their colleague in his fight against excessive spending or risking losing projects for their state. Mr. Reid's move is a clever way to force Republicans to choose between their self-proclaimed principles and pork. It will be interesting to see just how many side with Democrats in their effort to roll over Mr. Coburn."
- John Fund, Political Diary, 7/15/08
.."do it for America".....
"Americans want to go back to the 'can do, get it done, cut through the red tape' style of our parents and grandparents in World War II to bring down high energy prices. Americans want American energy resources developed to bring down prices. Americans want American technology and know how used to increase conservation and create alternative fuels. Americans want to do it all, do it now, and do it for America."
- Newt Gingrich
- Newt Gingrich
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