Yes he has done what we elected him to do. That is why he has my vote as well in November. Doesn’t mean many are not disappointed by his recent remarks. We need solid leadership now. We do not need to be schooled in who is naughty or nice or how many news articles we should read or not read. We need to see the plan for solving the nation’s problems.
By your bio, you are a young conservative. Good. My hope for you and your generation is that you have the same opportunities and freedoms that we have today. We are standing up so you can have just that and we want our leaders to hear our concerns. That includes Senator Coburn.
Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” talks about how a smart warrior needs to know his enemy. I think this is what Coburn really means when he talks about reading other sources of information. If you can look at your opponents philosophical approach to a problem, you can develop a better competing philosophy in the arena of ideas.
I think it's possible that Pelosi is a naive liberal. Mind you, I'm not positive about this, but she's certainly dumb enough. I seem to recall her saying that every month that we don't get an economic recovery package that 500 million Americans lose their jobs.