Posted on 04/06/2010 1:00:41 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here are several audio clips from GOP Sen. Tom Coburn's Q&A with constituents about the new ObamaCare Law, where Coburn went out of his way to defend Nancy Pelosi and the intent of Democrats. He also took shots at Fox News several times:
Coburn Says Use of IRS to Enforce ObamaCare Not Intended to Put People in Jail. . .
Coburn Says Nancy Pelosi is a "Good Person"; Warns Audience Not to be "Biased by Fox News" . . .
Coburn Urges to Stay Informed from Many Sources . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
It wasn’t long ago that FReepers were telling us how conservative Tom Coburn was. Oh well . . .
The regimes in the Soviet Union, Communist China, Cambodia and Germany were all sincere as are the current regimes in Iran, Syria, Libya etc. Sincere isn't a get out of the gulag free card.
I have only known a small number of liberals, but I’ve known them really, really well and personally.
And IMO they are not sincere, nor are they good hearted. Is it sincere and goodhearted to think that abortion is a good thing? Just for example.
I find them to be angry, ignorant, illiberal, intolerant, and mentally unhinged. They believe lies and untruths. Just because they very passionately believe leftist crap doesn’t make them “sincere”, and just because they claim “it’s good for people” doesn’t make them good hearted.
So I take strong issue with your blanket statement.
I used to be a hardcore leftist myself, btw.
How can anyone who supports Nancy be trusted....?
Lets hope some voters let him know that he has fallen off the tower.
Yikes! He said he reads (only) those two for balance?
I would read either of them only if I had eaten something bad and needed an emetic.
Considering that Pelosi has spent three years attempting to do to my country what Hitler failed to do, I don’t care if she’s nice to her dog (if any dog would have her). She is not a good person. Her goals are evil, and her methods are evil. Socialism must be stopped, and she’s the leader of the drive toward socialism.
Nice of you to make sure this is out of context in what Dr. Tom was saying.
It was so earth shattering our local media didn’t even cover the event.
Anyone who cannot take what some Fox News people say and dispute it are not thinking. Dr. Coburn has NEVER been about personally attacking anyone. You go after someone’s agenda not after the person themselves. What a novel idea — have the debate on issues not personalities. He is also a stickler for wshat the law says not what some people want it to say.
Paul Ryan and Tom Coburn probably know the current Obamacare law better then anyone else in America because they have read it.
What’s your beef with Coburn — he doesn’t want to trash someone personally and he believes that you should stay informed from a bunch of sources instead of just Fox News?
Shame on Dr. Coburn for wanting us top think!
BS — he doesn’t support her agenda but he won’t attack her personally — this is the problem on here with too many people who see something and make it into something it is not.
Good question. None of our media covered it but this group did and took it out of context. Dr. Coburn is trying to lower the rhetoric of attacking members of Congress personally and instead go after their agenda and it gets turned around he supports Pelosi.
Then we have the deal with Fox News — I have been complaining about Fox News for years and mistakes they make all the time and why when they report, I get a second source before posting. Anyone who relies on Fox News 100% for their news isn’t thinking and I agree with Dr. Coburn.
I just listened to Dr. Coburn’s full comments and he said that he is 180 degrees opposed to Nancy Pelosi but she is a nice lady. That means personally but he is 180 degrees opposed to her agenda.
This was all taken out of context including Fox News comment which he explained and how they had gotten it wrong but he did go on to explain the intent of IRS which he does not agree with.
Shame on Dr. Coburn for wanting people to think instead of be lemmings to Fox News. That is what I figured his take was and you put up headlines and excerpt to make him look bad. WHY?
After watching the full video, this is my last comment on the subject because nothing can be done when someone uses excerpts to further their own agenda for whatever reason.
Yes
Me too!!! I can’t think of a single one that I really like and trust, in either party. Well maybe Michelle Bauchman. The rest, piss on them all.
I just listened to Dr. Coburn’s full comments and he said that he is 180 degrees opposed to Nancy Pelosi but she is a nice lady.
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Then he is delusional! She is not a “nice lady” and he’s starting to sound like McCain. I’m tired of butt kissers and suck ups. Vote them all out and start over and TERM LIMITS!!!!
BTW... You have a great pic collection on your profile page. Your British Army vid put me in a better mood. ;>)
Thank you. Yea, that British video is great...it always put me in a better mood to.
Tom Coburn Knocks Fox News, Says Nancy Pelosi is a “Nice Person”
Sen. Tom Coburn, a staunch conservative from Oklahoma, is doing what seems almost unthinkable in this polarized political climate: Defending his Democratic colleagues from critics at Fox News.
At a town hall meeting, Coburn suggested that a woman who said “they can put us in prison” for not obtaining health insurance under the health care reform bill is misinformed.
“The intention is not to put anybody in jail,” he said. “That makes for good TV news on Fox but that isn’t the intention.”
He also defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the architect of the House version of the health care legislation that he fiercely opposed.
“I’m 180 degrees in opposition to the speaker — she’s a nice lady,” he said. The crowd could be heard responding unfavorably to his characterization.
“Come on now, she is a nice — how many of you all have met her?” continued Coburn. “She’s a nice person. She’s a nice person.”
“Just because somebody disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re not a good person,” he added. He then discussed his own experience of being vilified before asking the crowd not to “catch yourself being biased by Fox News that somebody’s no good.”
“The people in Washington are good,” he said. “They just don’t know what they don’t know.”
Coburn’s comments were recorded by radio station KGOU and reported by Capitol News Connection, where audio clips are posted.
The senator urged his audience to “stay informed on the issues” and not “just watch Fox News or CNN — watch ‘em both.” He said he reads the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal every day to “get a perspective” and “know what other people’s thoughts are — not just what I hear through a pipe channel.”
“I do a lot of reading every day, and I’m disturbed that we get things like what this lady said and what others have said on other issues, that are so disconnected to what I know to be the facts,” he said. “And that comes from somebody that has an agenda that’s other than the best interests of our country.”
It’s rare (and perhaps something of a risk) for a Republican lawmaker to criticize Fox News, whose hosts are generally supportive of the GOP agenda and can be a powerful force with grassroots Republicans. Coburn’s comments cut against the suggestion by some Democrats that Republican lawmakers have been inflaming sentiment against them — and could be putting them at risk of violence.
Coburn has been in the news recently for blocking a stopgap bill to provide jobless benefits because it is not paid for; he also participated in the flood of amendments to the health care reconciliation bill designed to slow passage by offering an amendment mandating no Viagra for sex offenders.
But Coburn, a doctor, was also an active participant at the bipartisan health care summit, where he addressed cost containment and made what President Obama called “some powerful points.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001827-503544.html
President Barack Obama greets Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. , as Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. , looks on at right, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, in the Blair House across the street from the White House in Washington.
“Nancy Pelosi is a nice lady”
Yes Tom.
And Hitler made the trains run on time also.
Coburn is another Republican scared of the MSM, and willing to sell us out.
Pelosi called us unAmerican, racists, Nazis, and Coburn is kissing her arse??
There is no doubt that Republicans in Congress want this bill, they don’t want to run on repeal, they want to preside over a nanny state in order to run on giving away gov goodies.
Republicans are DEAD to me.
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