Quote Originally Posted by sgray View Post
Um Midtowner,

Do you sincerely believe what you said, "what does it matter what's going on in D.C. anyhow?"

You seem to believe that Coburn was supposed to have been something different than he has shown himself to be. Not sure how much you watch Coburn...while his appearances in Washington are somewhat rare, when he does appear, it is just to stall legislation...has proposes little or no alternate or opinion (other than "it's wrong"), no intelligent debate, just zero productivity. Occasionally he will support someone else's bill, but I don't believe I have ever seen him introduce anything useful on his own. Especially not Inhofe. You are right about Coburn and the noise...that's about all he is good for.

You were asking how we can have an affect up there (in DC)...well, did you actually expect Coburn to do any better than Inhofe???

Just out of curiosity, have you watched either of them in action? Not in the news reports, but in-action on like c-span? He and Inhofe are not too different.


And OKCPulse, you mention quitting both parties. So, what are you gonna do when the next party fails you? And the next? Or the 100th one? You don't think it more productive to fight for change within your party rather than keep creating new ones everytime something goes wrong? While route66gal is correct in the things that the Republican party has done recently, not all Republicans are this way or have been this way. I know republicans that are fighting (especially after this election) to get the party back on track.
The next party won't fail me because there won't BE a next party for me. Both parties have evolved into nothing more than high-school clicks. I fight for change that works and makes sense. I don't fight for partisan change. I feel party labels and color labels are distracting badly misinformed Americans from the heart of our problems.

The two-party system was created to maintain balance in our government. But people today do not possess the maturity and wit to respect that balance. They only care about being Republican or Democrat as well as preach false facts fed to them by very bad sources.

This was the ugliest election in U.S. history. Not because of whom we were voting for, but because of the way most voters treated each other. We had sore winners and sore losers. Does someone need to take the lollipop from these people and explain the candy will be returned when they stop acting like whiny children? Does anyone anymore get the concept of courtesy? A few do, but most don't.