Town halls, Oklahoma style

Sen. Tom Coburn met with his constituents in Muskogee (pronounced Ma-skoe-gee), Oklahoma yesterday, finding a crowd of 500 attendees. The meeting had to move from the auditorium to the lobby and it was still packed.
In the reddest of red states, a fact I'm proud of, we can easily come together - Republicans, Democrats, Independents - for our love of country and liberty. That's the spirit of America and it is still alive here. We can disagree on minor issues yet band together for the big ones, the issues where our very national foundation is being attacked.
Yes, Okies love their Constitution and their flag and their country. And we appreciate our guns and our God, though I would never use the description "cling to", as Obama has. We still watch John Wayne movies and value family time. And when anyone, from a terrorist like Timothy McVeigh to a politician like Pelosi and her cronies, attack the freedom of our home, we unite and fight it back.
Obama, you want to hit back twice as hard? You have no idea how hard our first hit is.

"The reason health care costs are rising in our country in an inappropriate rate, I believe, the number one reason is because the government is in it in the first place. 60 percent of all health care in the country today, the federal government is touching....If you want to fix health care, the last thing you do it give the government more control over it." Sen. Coburn

Coburn didn't say there weren't problems. In fact, the private business lovers of this country still in Washington are coming together on a real plan, one that would actually work to provide competition, individual choice, transparency, and incentives for healthy living. Not health care rationing. Not bureaucratic death panels. Not longer lines and less care.

That, my friends, would be nothing short of enslavement.

And yes, when I talk about my country, my God, my liberty, or my state, I start waxing poetically. Can't help it.