http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2010/08/11/why-senators-act-like-jerks/ Random rants and curious explanation. Sat, 19 May 2012 15:05:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2010/08/11/why-senators-act-like-jerks/comment-page-1/#comment-4202 Al Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:17:57 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1087#comment-4202 Well said. My friends in Tulsa, whose son is a lone voice of sanity in the Oklahoma state senate, assure me that our ratings are correct -- that Oklahoma is the dumbest state -- and that your rating of Inhofe is correct as well. Of course Inhofe's fellow OK senator Coburn is only narrowly above that level, as are Demint, Kyl, Vitter, and a few others in competing dumb states. Yet somehow tiny Vermont produces Bernie Sanders, one of the best. Well said. My friends in Tulsa, whose son is a lone voice of sanity in the Oklahoma state senate, assure me that our ratings are correct — that Oklahoma is the dumbest state — and that your rating of Inhofe is correct as well. Of course Inhofe’s fellow OK senator Coburn is only narrowly above that level, as are Demint, Kyl, Vitter, and a few others in competing dumb states. Yet somehow tiny Vermont produces Bernie Sanders, one of the best.

]]> http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2010/08/11/why-senators-act-like-jerks/comment-page-1/#comment-4200 Steve Alber Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:55:20 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=1087#comment-4200 My old calculus teacher, Doc Wagner, once told the class, "If you want to tell a lie, use an average." Which I hold to be pretty much true, except in your excellent analysis of the U.S. Senate. It's hard to imagine a more fertile podium for excellence which is, instead, being used for national ignominy. It seems almost pointless to elect a dunderhead like Inhofe to the Senate, unless you just want to get him out of Oklahoma where he could do serious local damage, and give him to the whole country where he can do serious national damage. He is arguably the stupidest man in the history of the United States Senate. And since we are who we elect, what in heaven's name does that say for the befuddled citizens of OK? ,,, which, in my view, isn't. My old calculus teacher, Doc Wagner, once told the class, “If you want to tell a lie, use an average.” Which I hold to be pretty much true, except in your excellent analysis of the U.S. Senate. It’s hard to imagine a more fertile podium for excellence which is, instead, being used for national ignominy. It seems almost pointless to elect a dunderhead like Inhofe to the Senate, unless you just want to get him out of Oklahoma where he could do serious local damage, and give him to the whole country where he can do serious national damage. He is arguably the stupidest man in the history of the United States Senate. And since we are who we elect, what in heaven’s name does that say for the befuddled citizens of OK? ,,, which, in my view, isn’t.

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