Is this a great state or what?

Be they Republican or Democrat, Oklahoma surely must have the biggest bunch of dumbasses to ever try to legislate. While the state sunk deeper and deeper into economic decline, what were they busy doing as they collected their paychecks? Well, let me tell ya.  

The 2009 Business of the Oklahoma Senate and Legislature

(Resolved, tried to, endorsed, vetoed, passed, failed)

Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act

Resolutions condemning world class scientist speaking on evolution

Ten Commandments monument 

Plans to fight federal hate crimes law

Forcing ultrasounds on women seeking abortions

Publishing of private info on women seeking abortions

Fit thrown over gay pastor’s prayer

Approval of pro-life license plate

Meet with man searching for the Ark of the Covenant

Religious Freedom and Privacy Protection Act

Helping insurers keep from covering autism costs

Prohibit international super highway from coming thru

Bear huntin’

Remove homeschoolers from compulsory attendance requirement

Tax breaks for professional basketball team

Prohibit tattooing of human eyeball

Declaring English the official language

Ask President to declare a National Day of Prayer

Oppose Federal Freedom of Choice Act

Honor President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Congratulate Sam Bradford for winning the 2008 Heisman Award

Memorialize Congress to pass legislation restoring gold and silver money

Lifting the Curse of the Colonel (You read that right.)

Declare the official motto of the State of Oklahoma to be: In God We Trust!

Commend the Westmoore High School Pom and Cheer Squad

Outlaw female genital mutilation 

Truth in Music Advertising Act

Claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment

Withdraw applications from the Federal Constitutional Convention

Exempt fireworks sales from drought and burning restrictions

Oklahoma Criminal Illegal Alien Rapid Repatriation Act

Declare "Ronald Reagan Day"

Oppose proposed federal legislation known as the Clean Water Restoration Act

Urging Congress to oppose HR 45, known as Blair Holt's Firearm Lic and Record of Sale Act

Opposing the implementation of a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions

Condemning the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

While out here in the real world

Teacher layoffs forthcoming

Monthly budget cuts for all state agencies

Public safety workers furloughed

Homeless shelters are full

Unemployment has doubled

Child hung…

Oh hell. I give up.