From Examiner.com:

By Christopher Arps

It was called the Reagan Revolution: a realignment of the political system away from big government and corruption and toward conservative principles and an economic system steeped in free market ideas.

However, in many solid red states over the past decade, the Reagan Principles have been left behind as Republican majorities are ironically increasing in many of those states. And at the core of that paradox is an increasing capitulation by Republican leadership to big business, pimps for the tax credit crowd and more bows to the insurance industry than the President at an OPEC meeting. In other words, the new Oklahoma Sub-Standard.

The Oklahoma Sub-Standard began to really pick up steam with the sad regimes of former Senate Leader Glenn Coffee and Speaker Chris Benge. This blogger wrote numerous times of the leadership vacuum that engulfed the un-dynamic duo. Utterly lacking in any sort of skill set that would permit them to succeed in the free-market, these two now litter the public sector landscape with Coffee remote controlling the hapless new Senate Leader Brian Bingman from his perch as advisor to Gov. Fallin, something predicted by the Oklahoma Political News Service over a year ago.

But as to the present, observers in the region are pointing to the new Oklahoma Sub-Standard as the sure-fire way to scuttle permanent Republican majorities. Let’s examine one such issue: so-called ‘tort reform.’ Read more…

According to the FBI, former Senate leader Mike Morgan has been under FBI investigation for years. State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones has been telling us for years that Morgan, along with former State Auditor and Inspector Jeff McMahan, were as crooked as a dog’s hind leg:

OKPNS: (July 29, 2007) “Anatomy of a Scandal”

1) Larry Witt and Steve Phipps conspired to funnel corporate contributions into the 2002 State Auditor campaign of Jeff McMahan. FBI affidavits and witnesses have testified that such money was paid to them for the purpose making said contributions. Estimated totals range from $75,000-$100,000. These funds made up a large portion of McMahan’s total contributions and had a significant impact on the election results….

5) Larry Witt (Ry-son Oil) is seeking to purchase shares in several abstract companies owned by Steve Phipps. The sale of Phipps’ shares can not take place without approval of Jeff McMahan, State Auditor.

6) Witt was named in the university housing bond scandal involving Senate president Pro-Temp Mike Morgan. Morgan is also said to responsible for funneling state funds to but Stipe and Phipps’ train that is sitting and rusting in Guthrie. Read more….