[HJH207]

FREEPER NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS ONE. COBURN IS GOING TO BE A GREAT US SENATOR AND HE NEEDS ALL RED STATES SENATORS TO HEAR FROM US.

[traviskicks]

Update 4/28/05

         After a bad statewide election, issues with Tabor, and some marital problems, the Club For Growth is shying away from their initial endorsement of CO Governor Bill Ownes and has fallen behind Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, another strong government slashing Conservative. I'd been hoping SC governor Mark Sanford would get in the race, but it appears he is adamant about not running. Pence may be the best bet for 2008. Why do I like Mike Pence? Because this past week he stood up to the 'Conservative' leadership in Congress and now any Representative can force a vote on any aspect of the budget. This will force lawmakers to go on record when they steal, say,  $500,000 for the International Coffee Organization (true story), instead of being able to hide all their pork deep in large appropriations bills. Pence is also strongly in favor of opening our socialistic public school system up to private competition and was the only house member to serve as a plaintiff against the unconstitutional and failed campaign finance 'reform' bill.

         Why do I take the Club For Growth's endorsement so seriously? Because they bankroll the election of people like Senator Tom Coburn of OK who believes in the radical concept that families will spend their money better than government. "There isn’t going to be an appropriations bill that I don’t go after,” Coburn vowed. Robert Novak reports: The Oklahoma GOP establishment thought it was finished with Coburn when he fulfilled his term-limit pledge and left Congress after three terms, ending in 2000. His subsequent memoir showed his contempt for Capitol Hill mores. When a Senate seat opened for the 2004 election, Coburn withstood vicious attacks in both the Republican primary and general election campaign. [The Club For Growth's financial backing was a primary reason he won] Dr. Tom Coburn, a U.S. senator from Oklahoma for less than four months, last week was up to old tricks he started playing in the House a decade ago. He was making colleagues' lives miserable by exposing wasteful, unnecessary spending that is supposed to stay hidden. The Senate establishment, like its House counterpart, has retaliated by bringing ethics charges against the obstetrician-senator for going home to Muskogee, Okla., to deliver babies. The Washington Post reports that thieving Senators are stuffing a must pass emergency military spending bill with tons of pork: Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) will go against the flow by attempting to strip out funds that he deems are not urgently needed. As Mark Twain said: It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

[OldFriend]

GOOD FOR THE GOOD DOC

[firebrand]

Is this the same guy who favors the death penalty for abortionists and the adoption of Old Testament law?

[Moonman62]

Not observing a freshman senator's customary silent period, he proposed reducing the $592 million for a new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad provided by the emergency supplemental appropriations bill. Coburn argued that because only $106 million could be spent over the next two years, ''we are going to have $486 million hanging out there that will be rescinded and spent on something else.''

Enron style shell games. Who would have imagined?

[Beemnseven]

Sounds like Coburn is "not a good Republican".

Too bad there aren't more like him.

[Randjuke]

The Senate establishment, like its House counterpart, has retaliated by bringing ethics charges against the obstetrician-senator for going home to Muskogee, Okla., to deliver babies.

There has to be more than this for them to press ethics charges. I am guessing there are two sides to this and I would like to hear both.

[Ain Soph Aur]

Every time I read a story about Tom Coburn, I'm even happier that I voted for him as my Senator and he won.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

bttt

[Malesherbes]

Except the defeat of Kerry, nothing pleased me more in the 2004 elections than the election of Tom Coburn. I was sure he'd shake things up and so he has. Thank you, voters of Oklahoma. You did good.