You obviously have no clue what Senator Coburn has been doing for years. Your statement tells me that. He does not agree with the argument that no department can withstand reduced funding. He has fought, for years, to do exactly that.
I have every idea what Tom Coburn has been doing for years. He has been going along to get along (or, in your illiterate locution, he has been 'wenting' along) and to get reelected.
In the year and a half before the passage of Obamacare I listened to this old hack offer every rationalization to oppose opposing Obamacare ("Obama won the election, Obama is a good man, it's going to be the law of the land, it is the law of the land, blah blah"), and he continues to do it now.
Go ahead, stand with the great Coburn. Get a new hairstyle, a new beard, a new pair of glasses every two weeks, and then land a booking on MSNBC, which is what he seems to view as very meaningful action for a careerist politician to do.
Come out AGAINST your once-fellow conservatives, for being impractical, obstructionist, unreasonable, dishonest.
You stand with Coburn. Coburn stands with that "good man" Obama and his (Coburn's) "very good friend" Nancy Pelosi.
I stand against you.
Friends,
DC has become an imperial city in every sense of the word. The seven richest counties in the country are those that adjoin DC.
We are treated as colonies from which to extract wealth.
The Senate, the armed or monied Praetorians who select them and slavish silk bedecked courtiers who rely on the continued fleecing of the provinces for their wealth.....will corrupt or compromise any man long in that Sodom on the on Potomac.
Colburn by his statements has been compromised as has everyone else who whines that “we can’t do that”.
If a man were not compromised by the culture....or tolerant of it.....over a 20 year period, he would be on all our lips as a William Wallace, a Moses. Colburn is not such a man.
He is a conservative and votes right on most things.....but he is compromised. Trying to trim a plant that still gets bigger every year no matter which party is in control?
The DC weed needs dug out by the roots and the ground sown with salt.
Demand they shut it down. Shut it all down. Fund enough to cover SS, retirements, DoD, and other Constitutional services......and let the states cover the rest.
We have 50 states that duplicate services (or could very quickly)in every regard what we need save for defense and retirement.
To argue otherwise at this time in our history is cowardice and corruption speaking.
These same men send our son’s to die on foreign soil and call it duty. Yet they won’t risk their power and paycheck to save the very Republic they demand others die for?
Demand they shut it down!
I’m not going to get into an argument on Senator Coburn. He talks a good game but really doesn’t fight very hard. Not a single department or agency has spent less this year than last year. And we’ve been running the government on continuing resolutions since 2009, and the minute somebody actually threatens to stop the usual business from happening, the establishment of both parties whips into action to prevent it. And Coburn is obviously on their side. He’s said he’ll only serve two terms. I hope he sticks to that and this’ll be his last term, because the quiet conversations on the floor and the backroom cloakroom arguments have clearly gotten to him.
They’e so afraid of shutting down the government since what happened in 1995. The House has enormous leverage, but nobody ever wants to use it. Fund every bill but HHS or whatever bill Obamacare is in. Then let the Senate sit on them and ride out the pressure. Boehner caved in 2011 and we are now 17 trillion in debt instead of 14 trillion. Brilliant! Great job! How about we try something different?? Oh, no, Senator Coburn’s got his new glasses and said that would be dishonest, so let’s all just roll over then.
I don't care what Coburn has done in the past.
This is the here and now, and it's time for him and the GOP to take a stand.
The House should not pass any appropriations bill that includes Obamacare funding, and Senate Republicans should vote no if it does.
If it does passes without the GOP's help, then the GOP should simply tell people not to comply with the law.
And look at this quote “The president is never going to sign a bill defunding Obamacare. Do you think he’s going to cave?”
Coburn’s an idiot. The House does not have to write a bill saying they’re defunding something, they just don’t have to fund it. Don’t include it in whatever bill they send, or just don’t fund the entire HHS department. Just don’t send that appropriations bill to the senate. Just don’t do it. There doesn’t need to be action. There needs to be inaction. The republicans are going to get blamed and excoriated one way or the other. How about actually getting something out of it instead of just caving. Is there nobody in a postion of power in Washington who can take the pressure??