Oklahoma has two Senators, Thomas Coburn and James Inhofe. They both voted against the aid package for Hurricane Sandy. Coburn said that aid packages have to be offset by cuts in other areas of the budget, and Inhofe said it was filled with extraneous spending for areas he didn’t think were affected by the hurricane [although they were].

This time Coburn says he will again oppose aid without offsets, while Inhofe will vote for it because there won’t be any extra money in the bill.

There is no bill yet, because no one knows the cost of the storm, but the Senators from Oklahoma have made up their minds.

There is no word from the Senators of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as to whether they will be willing to vote for aid to Oklahoma, but I suspect they will because they are neither as ‘politically pure’ as Coburn, nor as brick ignorant as Inhofe.

But Chairweasel Issa is pushing ahead.

CBS reports that Top IRS official to invoke 5th Amendment at congressional testimony

Lois Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt organizations division of the IRS, will invoke the Fifth Amendment in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, CBS News has confirmed.

Lerner’s attorney, William Taylor, wrote in a letter to House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that Lerner “has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation” but, he says, “under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course.”

When Zero reacted he told the Department of Justice to check for criminal activity in the IRS case. So Ms Lerner, a career civil servant, got lawyered up, and the first words out of any lawyer’s mouth are “Don’t say anything to anyone about this case.”

Ms Lerner has no idea whether she will be charged with anything, but she doesn’t trust the system, so she is protecting her own interests and pension.

Issa still issued the subpoena to force her to say she won’t say anything in public, so he can grand stand.

This is just for CBS – Note they weren’t targeting conservative groups, they were targeting political groups. Two-thirds of the groups pulled for extra scrutiny were not identifiably ‘conservative’. Stop repeating Republican talking points.