Global Warming is a hoax!

[Catch22Dem]

So says Tom Coburn (R-OK) the guy running to replace Don Nickles. Here are some other zingers:

"I can tell you, without a doubt, I think global warming is a hoax...I think it's a bunch of garbage." - Fredrick Town Hall 8/21/04

"I favor the death penalty for abortionists..." - AP 7/9/04

"The Department of Education should be abolished." - Ponca City Town Hall 6/16/04

He's also said the film Shindler's List was pornography. FDR's New Deal "opened the floodgates for federal spending." He doesn't think a Senator should bring federal dollars to his/her state.


But the really sad part? His challenger, Brad Carson (D-OK) isn't much better. Brad's barely a Democrat! Maybe Brad's running his campaign this way, so he can win as a Democrat in Okla. (no small task) and will actually be better than he sounds. Either way, he gets my vote. We need the majority. We need the committee chairs.

[Chimpanzee]

1. Did you mean to say

Tom Coburn (R-OK)??

[Catch22Dem]

5. Sorry

No coffee yet

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. typo?

You've characterised Coburn as 'D-OK'. Surely he's a Republican? OR are the primaries still going on in Oklahoma?

[Catch22Dem]

7. Sorry

No coffee yet

[rooboy]

3. Isn't James Inhofe from there?

if so, enough said.

[Catch22Dem]

9. Yes, he's a prick!

IIRC, someone from Okla. (I think I read it on Bartcop, or maybe it WAS Bart who did it) put a Gore/Lieberman sticker on Inhofe's horse right before the xmas parade a few years ago.

[underpants]

4. Odd, the Pentagon and the World Bank don't think it is a hoax

Google "pentagon global warming" several links to Fortune
magazine, Greenpeace, Common Dreams, and the Observer



Sssssssssshhhh the February Pentagon report was buried.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/news/details?item_id=415878

[teach1st]

6. Makes one wonder what the Republicans...

..are like in Oklahoma. (ON EDIT - Never mind, after reading edit on the original post)

Are people who advocate abolishing the Department of Education for NCLB or against it?

[Catch22Dem]

10. It gets worse...

Check this out. Oklahoma has one of the worst public education programs in the nation yet 42% of Oklahomans find a lottery (gambling) where money goes into the school system morally objectionable.

POLL STARTED: 10/1/2004 6:00:11 PM --- POLL ENDED: 10/5/2004 5:00:11 PM
On November 2, Oklahomans will vote on a state lottery to raise money for education. Do you think Oklahoma needs more money for its schools?
Yes - 57.72%
No - 42.28%

[gmoney]

8. Coburn is a Republican

Not Democrat as your post says... that would be REALLY scary as Zell!

[Catch22Dem]

12. Sorry

No coffee yet, as I posted earlier. I going in the kitchen to pour some right now. Boy, I really fucked up an otherwise good post. :silly:

[highplainsdem]

11. And the hoaxsters have been so clever,

melting snowcaps and glaciers and Arctic and Antarctic ice to perpetrate this liberal lie...

[Anarcho-Socialist]

13. lol

[G_j]

14. has he said the world is really flat yet? n/t

[Catch22Dem]

15. That's in his next speech.