As an Oklahoman, I think your observation is correct and would expand it to say I think this is the first symptom of "Potomac fever" that seems to affect all politicians at some point in their service. We will know Coburn is fully under the spell of "Potomac fever" when he repeats this performance with Ted Kennedy.
How much more of this pernicious affirmative action crap to we have to read about? What is the attraction that these elected Tools have for the Red Mulatto....it is beyond embarrassing to live in this bizarro world.