He's No Merle Haggard, This Okie From Muskogee

Congress has been working for a while now to pass the "Emmett Till Cold Case Bill," an act that would create and authorize funding a unit at the Department of Justice to re-open cold murder files from the civil rights era. So, what's a nutjob Senator from Oklahoma to do?

Prevent passage of the bill, of course. Luckily, there's good news, as the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi trumpets in its editorial today:

On Thursday, spokesman John Hart said Coburn will drop his "hold" on the bill and introduce an amendment that would cut Justice Department funding in other areas by the same amount - as long as that amendment gets a fair vote on the Senate floor.

But Hart said, even if senators reject that amendment in a floor vote, Coburn won't reinstitute his hold.

Seriously, this is what the "greatest deliberative body in the world" has been reduced to? One idiot preventing ten million dollars from being spent over the next ten years (for those who, like Sen. Coburn, apparently can't do math: that's one million dollars per year), which money would be used to solve some of the most heinous, vile, and atrocious murders in the United States during the twentieth century, so that he can be "against earmarks?" Can we point out that Sen. Coburn has NEVER ONCE voted against authorizing the funding to pay for the (private) security provided to American diplomats in Iraq by Blackwater. Who, oh yeah, do things like this.

Well, I get that in Muscogee they don't "smoke marijuana" or "make a party out of lovin'," and I'm okay with that - diff'rent strokes, and all. But seriously, do they not investigate murders in Muscogee? Or is it just that they only investigate murders of white people and Christians?

Shame on you for letting this bill sit, Sen. Coburn. I sincerely hope that in 2010 the good people of Oklahoma come together to throw you out of that Senate seat you defile with your presence.