Apparently, Mary Fallin was upset that she was not mentioned in my Twitter article from earlier today.
I am accustomed to reading tweets by my representative that I disagree with. There are very few places I could live in Oklahoma and be satisfied with my representation. So, it is not so much that the above screenshot showcases that Representative Fallin has a closed mind on a topic I feel passionately about.
No my problem is with the timestamps.
The screenshot was taken at 8:20 central standard time, twenty minutes after President Obama’s hour long speech to the joint houses of congress was finished. Notice that all four of those tweets occurred while she was being addressed by the leader of the free world.
Sure, she was not about to be swayed by the President’s speech about health care reform, but the least she could have done is sat quietly with a sour look on her face like every other Republican in the galley. It might not be fun, but it is part of the job she sought and was elected to do. Instead, she played on her phone like a college freshman in a chemistry lecture. Perhaps she could have benefited from listening to the President’s speech yesterday telling our youth to pay attention in class and do their best.
What makes this worse is that she is currently running to be the Governor of this state. You know, an effort to become a chief executive like Obama. If she manages to get elected, I hope Al McAffrey and Joe Dorman fiddle with their Blackberries while she’s giving her “State of the State” address.
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Says she was on the “web”… She had a PC on the floor of the house?
Oh, come on, Clark. Do you think anyone in Congress manages their own social media?I guess you’d be disappointed to find out the president didn’t actually write his speech himself.
My phone has a web browser.
At least she didn’t yell and call him a liar in the middle of his speech.
I don’t care where your politics lie, if you heckle ANY speaker, much less your president, while he is addressing a group, you are a grade-A douchebag.
Give Mattress Mary a break she was maybe looking to have an affair with a married man
Her closed mind is a disappointment but as a political moderate in Oklahoma I’m used to being disappointed by my representatives. If one isn’t a rightwing nutcase it seems as if Oklahoma’s Congresspeople and Senators aren’t even interested in listening. They are too busy taking orders from the NRA, Big Pharma, and the fringe. They could at least pretend to consider our viewpoints.
The behavior of Fallin and her Republican cohorts during Obamas speech tonight just reconfirm to me why I left the Republican Party during Bush’s time in office. I can’t see ever going back.
haha love the Joe Dorman Comment
Mary Fallin has always “bothered” me. I don’t like her. I don’t feel like I can trust her, but I’ve never have been able to figure out why. Tweeting instead of doing her job is good enough for me!
In my opinion the level of disrespect that Republican legislators showed during the President’s address goes beyond what is acceptable. The immaturity shown, “tweeting” and playing with their phones, during the address would be laughable if it weren’t done in that context. As it is, this behavior is disgraceful.
The Republican party is a shambles. If they’re not letting the nutjobs do their talking, they’re acting like a bunch of 14 year old girls that are addicted to texting during class.
Mary Fallin, what a peach. Only in Oklahoma can you a young Republican get a degree in Hotel Management and one day become a State Rep and possible Governor. Maybe that’s why we’re just OK?
I wouldn’t mind the tweets if they actually had something concrete to them. However, they are pretty much uninsightful reactions that simply follow the opposition parties counter intelligence campaign. The degree to which the Republicans have set up a straw man argument in this debate is insulting. They generally are arguing against things that haven’t been proposed, which kind of makes you wonder how strong the things being proposed really are.
The reality is that they can’t seem to debate about the one major issue in all the proposals: how will it be paid for? They are 1) afraid that doing so would be an admission that the current system is a disgrace and 2) they so desperately need some sort of credit for any kind of reform that they will misrepresent any proposals that doesn’t have their name on it.
People want this, but are prudently skeptical of government involvement. In addition, health care is inherently complex. The republicans are simply trying to gain needed political capital by overplaying the reach of the government in the proposals and by confusing people further by making up stuff that hasn’t been proposed.
Come on Sarah…haven’t you ever seen Parliament? I personally think things would be a little bit more exciting if more people yelled during conferences and speeches.
My inspiration was the stand up and clapping. Seriously can a man just finish a sentence. Both parties remind me of circus clowns in this sense. Seriously has anyone been in a conference or meeting like this, maybe I should try it at my office meeting.
I wonder what Ashlynn Brooke thought about the speech.
Well, evidently there is no need to pay too close of attention since Tom Cole Can See The Future:
http://blogs.journalrecord.com/hottopic/2009/09/10/tom-cole-can-see-the-future-releases-response-to-obama-speech-prior-to-presidential-address/
I don’t feel like I can trust her either. Possibly her feeling of entitlement and her arrogance cause me to feel this way. She should have been paying attention instead of playing.
I think Clark needs a cupcake to cheer him up.
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I’ve seen the bumper stickers in a nightmare “Fallin/Kern vote for us or you’ll burn”
I saw Mary in the grocery store a couple of weeks ago. She’s just regular folks, if you like close-minded Sean Hannity parroting folks, that is.
When the 10 Commandment monument is erected on the capital grounds do you think Mary will have forbidden randy rememberances of Commandment #6 as she passes?
Wow! Are there any Democrats in the room.
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Am I burning in hell and just don’t realize it yet? This Chick is so retarded she was pushing for a Pro baseball team 6 or 7 years ago. Our reps. at this point are wholly owned subsidiaries of drug and insurance companies. I wish there was a punch line to that statement other than the jokes on me because this dumb cow is from my state!
Can we call a redo and just replace all the politicians in the state?
Is she still doing her bodyguard? I haven’t been keeping up.
Fallin/Kern! Geez, considering this will keep me up at night.
“Incentivize preventative care and wellness?” Does she even know what this means? Is she saying, “If only people stayed well, we wouldn’t need health care?” How do you get preventative care if you can’t get insurance? There I go asking her to think, again. Besides, you don’t need health care if you have “faith, family, and freedom.”
And she wasn’t “doing” her bodyguard. She was “incentivizing” him.