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The Ampol Mailbag -- Jan. 11, 2000

From: Bill Rollins
Re: Joklahoma legislators

After reading the latest Roll Call and the stories regarding parts of the Joklahoma delegation, I felt to compelled to write.

J.C. Watts is not going to honor his "sacred" pledge to voters not to seek more that 3 terms -- anyone who thinks otherwise is a sucker. Julius Caesar has no honor, has never had any, and probably never will. He has built a career tap-dancing with the powers that be and enjoying a lot of questionable perks as quarterback at OU (not to be confused with another member of the Joklahoma delegation, tailback Steve Largent). He went to on to an illustrious career on a state utilities board where he honed his bribe-taking abilities (check the FBI sting tape) and poetic talents, calling the same "walking around money." He was courted by the GOP to play their Tom, and won the hearts and minds of the mindless by babbling on about family values he doesn't possess (ask his out-of-wedlock children that he denied and abandoned, or the grandparents who stood in for his cowardice). The man will hesitate to announce his plans to run again for only as long as it takes him to coerce more perks from his keepers and craft a message to the mindless voters who elected him about the heavy responsibilities he feels about not walking away from the good fight, and returning the country to a brighter, more blessed day (or some such Reagan-era pap).

This from the guy who said "[insert homily here] is what you do when no one's looking".

Then Sen. Inhofe from Joklahoma finds yet another red herring to pillory the "criminal" conduct of the Clinton administration with, and again announces his intention to block all future federal judicial nominees for the duration of the Prez's term when, God willing, the country can be safely turned over to the frat-brat Dubya. A "real" American, Inhofe has built a career out of callous and idiotic behavior including suing his family (and mom?) over the dispensation of one of his failed businesses. The guy is a lightweight by general standards but he is proficient at spouting the party line, and that line is drawn deep here in Joklahoma, by the freepers, xtian coalition, and other religious extremists to whom Inhofe appeals (Tim McVeigh, an otherwise fine right-wing dittiot, spent some time between gun shows at the religious camp of Elhiam City in the eastern part of the state). After the Murrah Building was bombed in 1995, Inhofe's first statements concerned the "fact" that casualties would be difficult to determine because federal employees are prone to playing hooky, and it would take time to get an idea of who was on the job that day. He later denied making the statement -- but when it was pointed out that he made them on tape, he used the standard fallback that his quotes were "out of context." Inhofe is a brainless moron who aspires to replace Jesse Helms as the most backward member of Congress and will not be retired soon enough for a lot of long suffering Okies who remember the likes of Dewey Bartlett and Bob Kerr.

Maybe Garth can be convinced to run, who knows?

And almost anybody is better than Ernest Mistook!

Anyway, with jokers such as the above representing them, there are more than a few Okies who accept the proposal that the State may lose a representative after the 2000 census as more of a blessing than demographic justice.