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| “As politicians, we are
the tools of the people,
and we promise to be the biggest bunch of tools this state has ever seen.” – Rep. Todd Hiett |
By Martin Trapp, Partisan Staff Reporter
The 50th session of the Oklahoma
Legislature convenes today. Following a
contentious 2004 election, state Republicans
swept into power on the back of
God, guns, gays and the fact that Brad
Carson apparently had a homosexual
relationship with John Kerry and Edward
Kennedy simultaneously.
In the House, the GOP took the
majority of seats for the first time in 80
years, a fact noted in damn near every press
release issued by the Republican Party.
Rep. Todd Hiett, R-Kellyville, was
installed as the Speaker of the House in
January. In that position, he will lead a
77-seat majority (57 actual Republicans
and 20 more who would be Republicans if
they could go without the farm subsidies).
“Clearly, the people have spoken,”
said Hiett.
“With this election, we can finally put the nightmarish social and civil rights advances of the 20th century behind us. As politicians, we are the tools of the people, and we promise to be the biggest bunch of tools this state has ever seen.”
Republicans wasted no time in
pressing their advantage, shifting passing
new rules that would limit the ability to
propose and debate amendments on the
House floor, as well as procedural changes
that would require members of the
minority party to ask “Mother may I?”
before every vote.
In the Senate, Sen. Cal Hobson, D-Lexington,
will continue to lead a emasculated
Democratic majority, which
plans to spend most of its time sobbing
until it is put out to pasture in the 2006
election.