Factual reality:

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)–New details released by the White House show 43,300 jobs will be saved or created in Oklahoma over two years by a stimulus package that is the heart of President Obama’s economic recovery plan.

Oklahoma officials said Wednesday they are waiting for specifics of the final version of the House-passed plan, which is expected to undergo significant changes in the Senate. The White House release said it is projected that 90 percent of the jobs created in Oklahoma will be in the private sector, many in highway construction.

The package will provide funding to improve schools, help more students go to college and double the state’s renewable energy capacity. Most Oklahomans will qualify for a tax cut under the proposal.

Oklahoma's junior senator, up for re-election in 2010:

When we bring a $900 billion spending bill to the floor, and we've accepted one amendment to cut $246 million out of it.  We have had votes, both voice votes and recorded votes on less than 20 amendments. And we're told by the majority leader that we have to finish up, so we can get to conference.

This bill ought to have a thousand amendments on it, if we're truly going to do the work of the American people. We ought to debate this bill line by line.

I will not agree to any unanimous consent until the next 15 amendments that I've got have a scheduled time to be brought up, so the American people can hear of all the stinky stuff in this bill.

Also keep in mind that this same Tom Coburn, who thinks the Club for Growth are spendthrifts, and who is raising hell about less than 1% of the stimulus package, voted repeatedly in favor of giving $700 billion to Wall Street without strings.

One can only pray that this is true.

Karen Webb:

My spell checker is suggesting I change Inhofe’s name to Unholy or Unsafe.

(Via The Oklahoma Observer.)