Brutal: Tom Coburn quits the Gang of Six (tick tick tick)

Hot Air ^ | 5/17/11 | Allahpundit

[hatfieldmccoy]

Remember what Alan Simpson said after Obama’s disastrous, demagogic, compromise-destroying attack on Paul Ryan a few weeks ago? He knew he’d just seen any chance of a deal between the Republican and Democratic leaderships go up in smoke. Quote:

“Just pray for the Gang of Six,” he said. “You guys your age, keep praying.”

What happens if the Gang of Six fails? Mr. Simpson was asked.

“Guys like you will be picking grit with the chickens when you are 65,” he replied.

Start boning up on grit-picking, my friends:

[Jane Long]

Spot on. Wake up call worth passing along.

[topher]

Need to work on the RINO's and more conservative Democratic Senators.

They need 7 Senators to get 60 votes.

So figure the RINO's are going to be targeted.

Tea Party/Tea Party Express needs to target them in return.

Time to make some RINO Senator's lives miserable...

[aruanan]

Thanks!

[NFHale]

“...even the ones with productive businesses....”

And the awful fact is that they go along with it SOOOOOOOOOOOO willingly. Next time you have sit through “diversity” training or “tolerance and sensitivity” training, remember it...

Instead of business being the bulwark and first line of defense against socialists, they roll over like cheap French hookers.

[aruanan]

I think the problem is the Anti-Federalists were right.
Yep. A federation of states is one thing. A government that reduces the states to different toppings on a federally-mandated cookie recipe is entirely another.

The 17th Amendment was a big mistake, though it was pushed through by folks who were against the counterweight that powerful states or coalitions of states over whatever was important to them could provide against an expansionist federal government.

[saganite]

Meh, not that interested.

[b4its2late]

What was a good conservative like Tom Coburn doing with Dick Durbin anyway? Good Lord.

Exactly. But Washington has a way of turning things upside down that should be right side up and vice versa.

[dirtboy]

Coburn ran on "term limits" & now he has been in D.C. for close to 20 years.

He said he would limit himself to three terms in the House. He did.

And he has said he would limit himself to two Senate terms. He's on his second.

I think he sees the scope of the problems in this country and somewhat naively thinks he can find Democrats serious about working on them as well. To his credit, he now seems to realize that isn't the case.

But I'll take a man like Coburn any day of the week over uniformed blowhards any day of the week.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Coburn is worse than naive. He is walking hand in hand with Democrats just like McCain.

I lost respect for him after TARP and how he called an elderly woman dumb at a town hall.

[Ancient Drive]

We need a collapse period. The libs have not hit rock bottom yet. They are spending addicts, and are going to run our system into the ground if we let them.

[BelleAl]

“The three groups:

1. Those who want to live off the labor of others.
2. Those who want to control the lives of others.
3. Those who are productive and want to be left the hell alone.”

Amen! I’m quoting you on that!

[hatfieldmccoy]

Damn Mosby you are right—— a great song from a surprising source—I’m thinkin’ the Tea Party may have a theme song....

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Yep. The economy is like a 1000-pound human. We need Dick Gregory’s, not frugal gourmets.

These fools are arguing over which condiments to stop using while allowing the patient to gorge on cheese steaks and ice cream.

[MSF BU]

Al Simpson? He’s been a half asser since the days of Reagan. Well, actually, since the days of his deferments to avoid combat in Korea; he had an easy tour in Germany once the fighting was over.

[monkeyshine]

I am all for leaving Obama out there all by himself to defend running a $1.5 Trillion deficit for years to come. The GOP should not be negotiating on a budget that cannot be balanced, it only gives the President and jis party cover for the indefensible.

But the only way we will get real reform is if the people rise up and demand it.

We do not need the NEA. We do not even need the IRS. We can let the states collect taxes and forward the money to the Treasury (though I support repeal of the income tax in favor of a consumption tax that supports a federal government about 25% to 30% the size of the one we have now). The people will have to demand accountability, and we will have to demand that these agencies prove their value or be disbanded. Most of them need to be disbanded because they have no calculable value.

[fortheDeclaration]

Coburn said that anyone involved with an abortion should go to prison; hardly a moderate.

Including the woman?

[fortheDeclaration]

With all due respects, term limits has to do with being in office-any office, not just switching offices.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

It was doomed to fail from the start because Washington DC is a factory. The product they mass produce is spending. To try and make the factory all of a sudden start producing fiscal conservatism will not work because a whole economy of scale has evolved from the power of taxing, spending, and borrowing.

[central_va]

Those who are productive and want to be left the hell alone.

Getting FedGov™ to leave you alone is a hard trick to pull off.

"I am with the South in life or in death, in victory or in defeat...... I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and inaugurate a servile insurrection, murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone."

~~Major General Patrick Cleburne C.S.A.

[aruanan]

Well, he certainly called that one right.

They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and inaugurate a servile insurrection, murder our men and dishonor our women.

I'm not clear, though, on what he meant by "inaugurate a servile insurrection." Neither the North nor the South was servile in any way, unless he was referring to a hope that slaves, being servile, would mount an insurrection against the South. A lot of this, though, still holds when applied to the U.S. federal government and its relationship to the nation at large.