CFN
Gazette staff
Now that the dust has settled with the averted fiscal cliff, there are
dubious Beltway winners and losers, but among the unequivocal winners is
Oklahoma's own U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore. Early on, he urged his
Republican colleagues to accept tax hikes on the wealthiest 2 percent
and wait until spring to battle over spending cuts, and the political
postmortems have been more than kind to him.