Glenn Thrush notes Okla. senators are ‘spending skeptic’ and ‘global warming denier’

Posted at 11:26 pm on May 20, 2013 by Brett T.

I wonder for how long. RT @GlennThrush: It is striking that #OK senators are 1) a federal spending skeptic and 2) global warming denier
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— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) May 21, 2013

Don’t judge Politico’s Glenn Thrush for judging Oklahoma senators Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe. Coburn invited criticism by voting against the pork-filled Sandy aid package and then revealing he’d seek spending offsets to pay for any federal assistance with tornado disaster recovery. It was shocking that Coburn would even think of money at a time like this — particularly to those waiting for Coburn to announce if he’d seek spending offsets.

Left's already busy scoring points w/tragedy by needling Coburn abt offsets. If he doesn't respond, he's a hypocrite; if he does, a monster.

— Lizbuddie (@lizbuddie) May 21, 2013

Read the twitters Coburn already called for offsetting aid RT “@Tark31: I mean really, @glennthrush. Are you FUCKING serious?”

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) May 21, 2013

@AlanLCross I stated the policy position that defines Inhofe's political career. Why is that off limits? I'm disrespecting victims?

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) May 21, 2013

Climate change? That speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Those senators were practically begging to be hit with a tornado by denying man-made climate change.

https://twitter.com/rogerabramson/status/336672371157114880

@redsteeze @GlennThrush Yeah, there were no tornadoes in OK until a few years ago.

— Klown 1.0 (@realmyiq2xu) May 21, 2013

Go ahead, @GlennThrush, please explain what climate change has to do with tornadoes?

— AG (@AG_Conservative) May 21, 2013

@AaronWorthing @GlennThrush I grew up in New Orleans, and it's amazing how it never got a hurricane until Katrina and global werrrrming

— Film Ladd (@FilmLadd) May 21, 2013

Are we sure the sequester isn't to blame, too? @FilmLadd @GlennThrush

— Aaron Worthing (@AaronWorthing) May 21, 2013

Striking that @glennthrush dresses like a B Movie reporter & delivers D level political commentary during tragedy

— F. Bill McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) May 21, 2013

More striking = libs VULTURE politics RT @GlennThrush: striking OK's senators 1) federal spending skeptic & 2) global warming denier #tcot

— slone (@slone) May 21, 2013

https://twitter.com/Matt_Given/status/336679844484116480

.@GlennThrush I respectfully request that you focus on helping people instead of using tragedy to push ideology. @instapundit @flyoverred

— Kristina Ribali (@KristinaRibali) May 21, 2013

Is this sarcasm or a rare incidence of self-awareness?

I'm a douche low-life scumbag jackhole ghoul for noting Coburn already wants offsets to fed aid and Inhofe is climate change denier.

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) May 21, 2013

Here’s one of those questions journalists like Thrush never seem to ask.

Wait, are "federal spending skeptic" and "global warming denier" not reasonable positions to hold?

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) May 21, 2013

There wouldn’t need to be offsets for emergency spending if the government wasn’t running trillion dollar yearly deficits, @GlennThrush.

— RB (@RBPundit) May 21, 2013

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