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Sen. Coburn: It's a 'good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor'
The Hill ^ | 8/18/11 | Josiah Ryan

Posted on 08/18/2011 9:53:28 AM PDT by Nachum

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) criticized his congressional colleagues Tuesday, calling them "cowards" and a "class of career elitists," adding that it was a good thing he wasn't allowed to carry a weapon on the Senate floor. "It's just a good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor," Coburn told a crowd in Langley, Okla., as reported in Wednesday's The Tulsa World.The two-term senator, who has earned the nickname "Dr. No" for his frequent holds on legislation, has never been one to mince words. But his comments about carrying a gun come after the January

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; coburn; gun; senate
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Obama: "If they bring a knife, we bring a gun"

Guess he listened, eh Mr. President?

1 posted on 08/18/2011 9:53:31 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

I love it!!!!!!


2 posted on 08/18/2011 9:55:26 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: Nachum

Bring back dueling!


3 posted on 08/18/2011 9:59:21 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Nachum

Bring a cane and get to beating! it’s been done before.

http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=736896


4 posted on 08/18/2011 10:00:58 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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To: Nachum
Coburn’s gone to the dark side — willing to raise taxes. Also taking cheap shots at the military during a town hall meeting yesterday. He needs to go back to OK now and regain some degree of sanity.
5 posted on 08/18/2011 10:01:01 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Nachum

Gotta love this guy.


6 posted on 08/18/2011 10:01:45 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Nachum

He really sticks up for Obama in the article. He respect the guy a lot. Of course comments here will be to “high five” the Senator because all they do is read the title of the article. (full disclosure....I do it too sometimes and usually get slammed for it)....


7 posted on 08/18/2011 10:04:11 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie; Nachum

One of you read the article and one of you didn’t......I 100 percent guarantee that I know which one read the article and which one didn’t.


8 posted on 08/18/2011 10:05:34 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Nachum

I don’t have the organizational skills, nor the financial wherewithal, but I know how to get Congress to be more functional.

A campaign to put pressure on Congress members to place themselves in Social Security, Obamacare and reduce the retirement for Congress members.

It would appeal to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. It would force Congress to attend to these issues, because it would affect them directly.

The only people in America who wouldn’t like it is the 535 Congress members, and 1000 - 1500 hopefuls.


9 posted on 08/18/2011 10:05:48 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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To: Nachum

Coburn used to be known as a conservative, but he has gone to the dark side, indeed. One of the worst.


10 posted on 08/18/2011 10:09:00 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Cicero

And I helped his sorry @ss get elected back in 2004.
Back then he was thought to be one of the best. So sad.


11 posted on 08/18/2011 10:27:47 AM PDT by Clump (the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: napscoordinator

Nope I didn’t read it. Didn’t need to.

I then read it, I still love they guy.


12 posted on 08/18/2011 10:29:07 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Nachum
"...after the January assignation attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), ..."

...what??

13 posted on 08/18/2011 10:31:10 AM PDT by pigsmith
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To: Nachum

I think they SHOULD be packing on the Senate Floor. They have a Right to be at all times armed, just as the rest of us do.


14 posted on 08/18/2011 10:35:35 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
My first thought too.

BTB, what's a "Semator"?

15 posted on 08/18/2011 10:52:17 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: netmilsmom

This guy gets props for using thug language in the legislature of a non-banana republic?


16 posted on 08/18/2011 10:57:06 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Calvin Locke

BTB, what’s a “Semator”?

Ain’t that the fella that waves the signal flags or is that a sephmafore?


17 posted on 08/18/2011 11:02:27 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: pigsmith

I caught that too...

The Hill must not be able to afford an English-speaking editor.

Or, auto-word-correct wins again...


18 posted on 08/18/2011 11:22:53 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Nachum
ut his comments about carrying a gun come after the January assignation (sic) attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz

Nice bit of editorializing within a "news" item.

Technically, anything at all that may be said by any person or persons anytime at all after January of 2011 without limitation will have been said "after the January assassination attempt" on Gifford.

So, apparently all peoples' speech (or at least the speech of Senators, and maybe the speech of Congressmen, but likely only if they're Republicans) must hereafter and forever be muzzled (can I say "muzzled"? A gun has a "muzzle", after all.) or bowdlerized to avoid the mention of those icky guns, for fear of running afoul of foolish gun-hating and Republican-hating scolds such as Josiah Ryan of The Hill.

19 posted on 08/18/2011 11:33:18 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

>>This guy gets props for using thug language in the legislature of a non-banana republic?<<

Oh please.
Nice guys finish last.


20 posted on 08/18/2011 11:58:16 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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