Posted on 02/12/2006 6:05:48 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Edited on 02/12/2006 6:06:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON -- The Senate, which fancies itself the world's most exclusive club, has its Sir John Hawkins. He was the 18th-century musicologist whom Samuel Johnson called ``a very unclubbable man.'' The very unclubbable senator is Oklahoma's Tom Coburn, 57, a freshman Republican whose motto could be: ``Niceness is overrated.''
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Coburn ping. He needs to be cloned, and then cloned some more.
I love this guy! Isn't he the one that did not support renewing the Patriot Act? He is one Senator that is in touch with his constituency and then some. I'm in MO, but I support him anyway. God Bless Oklahoma
Any relation to James Coburn?
Everything I've read of him, I liked. I'd support him.
NO...it was Russ Feingold (D) that supported not renewing the Patriot Act.
If "we the people," would elect 50 more like him to the Senate, and 218 to the house it would not really matter who the POTUS was.
>>>"`I'm an American long before I'm a Republican, and I'm a granddad before I'm either one of them.''<<<<
In a different time he could have been Davy Crockett
TT
How 'bout if the POTUS is Coburn?
Mrs VS
See little Patty Murray's remarks in this? A "sculpture garden" for Seattle paid for by TAXPAYERS!!!
The idea of bringing home the bacon is a euphemism for paying off their sugar daddies. You and I don't benefit, a least not much if at all, from the projects these guys bring home. The ones who benefit are the ones with a direct financial interest in the project. They either build it and make a ton, or it enhances the value of some near by property of theirs.
The Senate was supposed to be, and used to be, above all this petty politics. They were to be the deliberative body with the interest of the entire country in mind. They were to ride herd on the impulses of the money spenders in the House. That is why their terms, 6 years, is longer than a congressman or even the President.
T'aint that way any more. They just use their leverage and fewer numbers to be crookeder than anyone.
I love your guy.
Tom Coburn doesn't care if you like him or not. Texas has Congressman Ron Paul, he doesn't care if Washington likes him or not, but I sure do.
TT
If you haven't seen this, it's a good article about our Okie from Muskogee, Tom Coburn.
Tom "Thumb in the Establishments Eye" Coburn is my kind of guy. Long live Tom Thumb!
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