OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma congressman apologized yesterday for suggesting that “killing a couple’’ of US senators may be the only way to get a budget passed through Congress.
US Representative John Sullivan made the comments Wednesday during a town hall meeting in Bixby. When asked about federal spending, the Tulsa Republican expressed his frustration with the Senate for its failure to approve a budget.
“I’d love to get them to vote for it,’’ Sullivan said. “Boy, I’d love that, you know. But other than me going over there with a gun and pointing it to their head and maybe killing a couple of them, I don’t think they’re going to listen unless they get beat.’’
Sullivan spokesman Vaughn Jennings said yesterday that the congressman was speaking off the cuff during the town hall meeting and sincerely apologized for his remarks.
Jennings added that the congressman also spoke during the event about the importance of civility in Washington.
“The congressman offers his sincere apologies to anyone he offended and for using a poor choice of words to make his point - which was that Senate Democrats are refusing to pass a budget or even vote on the 28 House-passed jobs bills,’’ Jennings said in a statement.
“Millions of Americans are hurting - the Congressman feels their pain, and does not want his comments to deflect attention away from the serious issues our country faces today, and he certainly does not condone any form of violence as a means to fix what is broken in Washington.’’
I haven't for a long, long, time, and still don't; however, they better get their act together down there for "those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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"Court blocks Okla. ban on Islamic law" Associated Press, January 11, 2012
Backers argued that the amendment intended to ban all religious laws, that Islamic law was merely named as an example, and that it wasn’t meant as a specific attack on Muslims. The court disagreed....
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I know that outraged some, but not me.
