I disagree with Coburn on some things, but I definitely appreciate his commitment to being a citizen-legislator. Maybe that’s what the entrenched career legislators are afraid of, don’t want a good example being set.
The Donkey Congress is allergic to debateConservative stalwart Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint blew the whistle last week on a new report from the Congressional Research Service showing that 94 percent of bills passed in the Dem-controlled Senate have been rammed through without debate or vote.