Editor vacation??

Holy crap. After weeks of run-of-the-mill letters ('Hate the federal government!', 'Global warming is a hoax!', and this total joke), the Oklahoman has run a whopping three letters expressing progressive views! Someone must have gone on vacation.

In a thoughtful reply to one of the paper's typical anti-Obama editorial, Greg Owings of Norman rightly notes that the President

imposed provisions of the Dream Act and postponed the deportation of Latinos, repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell, supported marriage equality, expanded student loans and reduced their interest rates, enabled young people to stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26, guaranteed coverage for contraceptives and family planning.

These are all things he campaigned on, so it is, as Owings says, "humorous to hear that the Obama presidency has been a dismal failure." (Note to the editors: if you campaign on a set of policy ideas, and those policy ideas actually come to pass, that's called a 'success.')

Similarly, Jon Womastek of Oklahoma City rightly critiques the right-wing talking point that the country needs to cut taxes even more. And finally, Tim Walker of Piedmont presents a rational critique of an op-ed (from the Washington Examiner-- I get that the plutocrat who owns the Oklahoman also owns the Examiner, but are the editors so lazy that they run the same editorials in both papers??) that discusses the court's role in deciding religious "freedom."

As we've seen plenty of times before, the Oklahoman loves to run letters expressing progressive views largely so that it can run harsh responses to them later in the week (or later). Let's see if it happens this time around.