Today is a day for honoring heroes and their sacrifice. But right now these are the heroes that I feel the need to honor.

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I am certainly not taking anything away from our fallen vets, or their sacrifice, but to me these brave public servants have redefined heroism.

What they did to protect their children, while being vilified from the Right and underpaid for their efforts, is truly inspiring.

Yet while we rain much deserved praise down on their heads for their bravery let us not forget that Oklahoma is still represented by callous assholes like this guy:

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) reiterated on Sunday that he won't support additional disaster relief funding without spending cuts elsewhere -- even after tornadoes ripped apart his own state last week. 

"We've created kind of a predicate, that you don't have to be responsible for what goes on in your state," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation" while discussing the success Oklahoma has had in using state and private funds after the tornadoes. 

Coburn said he doesn't oppose any federal money going toward the state, however. 

"Big storms like [Hurricane] Sandy, or like this tornado -- there's certain things that we can't do that we need the federal government to do," he said. 

The Oklahoma senator has been consistently opposed to disaster funding without offsets, but some expected that to change in the wake of the devastation to his state. But Coburn's office quickly confirmed after the tornado that he would not be supporting disaster aid without offsetting the spending. 

"That's always been his position [to offset disaster aid]," Coburn spokesman John Hart said Monday in a statement. "He supported offsets to the bill funding the OKC bombing recovery effort."

I guess Oklahoma can decide who they want to be the face of their state, but if it were up to me  I would rather it be any one of those teachers from Plaza Towers Elementary rather than this Koch sucking windbag.