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Posted At : February 24, 2009 12:33 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Everybody and his brother has ridden the issue of whether corporate meet-downs in Las Vegas are appropriate (or fiscally responsible) into the ground. While one can still read well-reasoned defenses, the whole debate just took a hard right turn into Silly Land.
Coburn: Full of it
No doubt seeing a chance for some free media, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) tried to sound all Obama-like and stuff. Maybe it was our civic hypersensitivity that egged him on. Whatever the case, City Life Editor Steve Sebelius did a bit of digging and found that, in the present instance anyway, Coburn's self-proclaimed fiscal conservatism was just a pig in a poke. Seems the good senator is actually a casino-hatin' blowhard who has referred to the industry as "a parasite." He fulminated, "The less gambling we have in Oklahoma, the better off we will all be."
Considering that casino/racino gambling is a large -- and growing -- industry in Oklahoma, you have to wonder how Coburn's constituents (at least those in the gaming biz) feel about being tarred by their own senator as leeching off their fellow man. Maybe when the long-overdue vaudeville hook finally comes for clownish, two-faced Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) it can yank this grandstanding hypocrite offstage, too.
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