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Senator Coburn: We ‘deserve’ to lose seats
The Hill ^ | 05/29/08 | Walter Alarkon

Posted on 05/29/2008 2:55:38 PM PDT by redwill

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To: EagleUSA

Amen.


41 posted on 05/30/2008 8:15:49 AM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: sheana
The culprit IS POLITICIANS, not lobbyists.

It's the pols in Washington that allow themselves to be co-opted by the lobby industry.

It's not like the lobbyists are FORCING them to take the handouts and cast their vote for their interests, not ours.

The pols are 100% culpable and deserve to be sent packing.

42 posted on 05/30/2008 8:19:24 AM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: pepperhead
Ummmmm...did Coburn push back on Obama when he compared Coburn to a terrorist?
43 posted on 05/30/2008 8:24:10 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: sheana
Lobbyists ARE the people.

Reduce the dependence on government, literally and emotionally, and you reduce the size of gov......and the lobbyists will dwindle with it.

44 posted on 05/30/2008 8:28:42 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: redwill
Tom Coburn is in the Senate. I am not. No one on FR is. Who is in a better position to do something about what Coburn is complaining about?

Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding of the purpose of the US Senate is that it is to be a deliberative body, one wherein individual members, even those in the minority, can have influence beyond what their counterparts in the House have, where things tend to be steamrollered by the majority and the minority is told to go pound sand. So, acting alone, or with colleagues who support him, Coburn can do things, like start filibusters, propose amendments to legislation, put holds on various things in order to get them brought up for votes, etc. He isn't powerless (like the rest of us are, except for our votes, which may or may not make much difference).

45 posted on 05/30/2008 8:29:21 AM PDT by chimera
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To: roses of sharon

Well if he did, he didn’t do it immediately or forceful enough, because I don’t remember any kind of significant response when it happened. I didn’t hear it and I am guess lots of people didn’t hear it either.


46 posted on 05/30/2008 8:40:23 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: pepperhead
Well, he certainly had a chance in this interview, (which he does rarely), but he chose to make the headline, “WE DESERVE TO LOSE”?

Who cares if you are a small gov Conservative when you cannot even take your battle to the enemy UnAmerican Democrat Party?

When you chose to snivel before the camera instead of in private?

When you chose the easy route of slamming your fellow GOPers, instead of Barack Hussein Obama after he SLANDERS YOU IN A PUBLIC DEBATE THAT MILLIONS WATCHED???????????

47 posted on 05/30/2008 8:50:31 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: roses of sharon
How to defeat the UnAmerican Democrat Party war room that have ruled our lives for 40 years running!

Form a 3rd party that never compromises its principles to get a INO elected, one. The Conservative party!

48 posted on 05/30/2008 4:52:10 PM PDT by Bommer (There's an (R) next to his name! I must trash my principles & beliefs and vote for the (R)!)
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To: Ron Jeremy

You are exactly right. Thank you.


49 posted on 06/03/2008 6:04:44 PM PDT by mirkwood
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