Posted on 07/22/2012 2:08:55 AM PDT by SMGFan
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says he supports Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s re-election because he believes Manchin is not beholden to short-sighted political interests.
Coburn recently gave $250 to Manchin’s re-election campaign.
“I think he votes thinking about the long-term interests of the country. We don’t agree on everything but he’s a good guy,” Coburn told The Hill.
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Yep, they called here twice last week asking for money. Why bother if they’re going to urn around and give it to the Rats?
I have jumped on their ass so many times when they call that they have stopped calling.
Tom Coburn is a Traitorous,Treasonous POS! During the 2010 lameduck session, Late on the Sunday night five days before Christmas, Coburn let pass by ‘Unanimous Consent’,the stalinist ‘Food Safety and Modernization Act’. This stalinist nightmare,allows the government to control the food supply,by over regulation and use denial of food as a weapon against the American people. It even allows Obama control over Home Gardens. Coburn promised he would bury the legislation and then when he thought no one was looking,days before Christmas,he used his single vote to push this monstrosity through. Coburn thinks we all forgot about that, we haven’t!Coburn has also proclaimed his affection for Obama saying,” I love the guy”! He’s threatened numerous times,to have liberal legislation like Obamacare read in order to delay it,on the way to burying it,only to cave in and not follow through on his threats.
He’s built up his high ACU rating,by voting for Conservative Bills he has no chance of passing and voting against liberal Bills he has no chance of stopping. He also virtually lives at msnbc. A total Bleephead!
Hey, you're starting to get it now!
I’ve been under the impression for many years that Coburn is a political ho!
It's not a bribe; it's a symbolic overture. I doubt Manchin (& Earl Ray, et al) care primarily about ideology - it's about power. So if the Republicans take control of the Senate, he would like to be in the majority. It's easy for him now since Harry Reid doesn't let the Senate vote on anything and he can talk conservative all day long for the folks back home. But with a closely divided Senate under a GOP majority, Manchin would have to take stands on tough issues again and again and he doesn't have the stomach for it.
As a Republican, Manchin would probably line up with the leadership most of the time, more than a Collins/Brown type. Maybe like Ben Nighthorse Campbell.
WV has two GOP Congresscritters now and votes GOP in presidential races. They can read the writing on the wall. It's just a matter of when.
How many of the comments are from Okies?
I’m not one, but I’ve crossed the Big Red more than a few times back and forth.
Oklahoma has a lot in common with Texas, politically, only MORE so.
Almost all TX Republicans used to be Democrats if they’ve been around long enough.
In OK the Democrats have held sway longer than they did in TX.
JC Watts was a Dem turned Republican. Many registered Dems voted for him or he would’ve never been elected. I’m not promoting Watts, just giving you a for instance.
The Dems in OK and TX mostly were not the same as the national Dems. This has been explained on threads where Rick Perry was vilely attacked for having once been a Democrat. Some Dems in these states were libs, but many of them voted for Reagan and some even voted for Ike and Nixon.
They continued to vote in other races for Dems for years after they didn’t like the national Dem candidates. Many of these voted for Jimmy Carter over Gerald Ford, though. Then dumped Jimmuh for the Gipper.
This is Coburn’s background. I do believe he has grown up around and known a lot of OKie Dems he thinks are good people.
I’m not excusing him, because the evidence is that gone are the days when we can afford to give an inch to ANY Democrat.
I’m explaining Coburn’s mindset. It’s old school. It’s outdated. But it’s based on a former reality that’s understandable.
What else might be wrong with Coburn is a debate for another day
agree
They don’t call me anymore either. Got a call from a Herman Cain project yesterday. Herman is backing Conservatives across the country....good for him.
The problem with Perry is many of us felt his party switch was completely and thoroughly opportunistic and he has never been an authentic Conservative (the same goes for the TX Lieutenant Governor DewCrist as well). They operate like the good ole boy Southern Democrats that held sway down here for almost 140 years, exactly the kind of folks worked so hard to run out of office.
As for Coburn, he has lived up to my adage that most Conservatives spoil in DC after 6 years. He’s been there 14 out of the last 20 years. If he’s giving campaign contributions to left-wing Democrats like Manchin (he’s not center-right, kids, his voting record is 75% liberal), we have a serious problem. Manchin is the very epitome of the good ole boy Democrat establishment in West Virginia, corrupt and statist to the core and running the show now almost uninterrupted since the 1932/Great Depression elections ended the GOP majority there (which contrasted to the rest of the South — WV was like Baja Western Pennsylvania, also heavily GOP until 1932 and only slowly returning to that preference).
Good Morning to You and Yours
...and John Boehner lauded Charlie Wrangel, the Democrat tax cheat at an evening in Wrangel’s honor...
Yes, the elites are all Siamese twins, but what joins them at the hip is more than a mere “Wille zur Macht.”
Like the Russian soldiers in WWII who indeed wanted the Nazi invaders dead, we must remember that behind them were the NKVD enforcers - turning back would get you shot by them, instead of the WaffenSS.
What also keeps all of the elites pushing in the same megalomanic direction is the MAD - mutually assured destruction - deriving from the incredible dirt they all have on each other.
I am certain that a massive majority, if not all, of the Beltway crowd know that Obama is a complete fraud: birth “certificate”, SSN, etc. Just as they knew about Clinton’s Dixie Mafia.
But they and their “Borg” media are given over to reprobate minds. Morally corrupted and immune to wisdom, courage, clarity.
The time is short. Leave the cities and prepare.
Shabbat Shalom b’Shem Y’shua
Just what does Coburn not understand about the disease that infects all Democrats and why it makes them Democrats?
All Democrats are infected by liberalism and the burning desire to hold all blameless for their own actions.
Come to think of it, Republicans also have a disease called Political Correctness. However, the ravages this disease can only be cured by growing a pair. Female Republicans (with the exception of Maine Republicans) can’t grow a pair, but can grow a “backbone.”
Yes, and Coburn also has described Pelosi and Obama as “really good people.”
Watch for this sniveling little s.o.b. to show up on Scarborough tomorrow and whinge about how difficult it is to “work across the aisle”.
Meanwhile Coburn’s loathesome Democrat love-buddies in the Senate strike down or stall every meaningful bill (and there ain’t many of them) that comes their way.
What a scoundrel, what a scumbag. The moral and intellectual equivalent of Nebraska’s Chuckroast Hagel.
Maybe he thinks he’ll never lose his Senate seat. Oklahoma voters will have to decide that for him. Oklahoma was the only state in the union during the 2008 election in which all of its counties voted RED. (McCain/Palin) Perhaps the good voters of that state need to put a fire under their boy.
Senator Coburn's term is up in 2016 and he has announced that he will not be a candidate for reelection.
Manchin has purportedly been involved in negotiations with leadership on both sides with respect to coal legislation. Obviously, there is more to the issue than coal from our point of view however there is some room to believe that he might in fact change parties.
Problem is that if his vote is the last vote, his bargaining power with the Dems is so great that they would promise anything; and if his vote is not the last vote, it is worth something to the R's only if he is also there on court nominees and other important issues.
et tu Tom????
What could be wrong with Tom?? Whatever is effecting him, I hope he recovers his reasoning ability before too long.
Gov. Palin didn’t say anything negative against Sen. Manchin when she campaigned for the guy that was running against him.
Gov. Palin had worked with Gov. Manchin. As I remember Gov. Manchin has never said anything negative about Gov. Palin.
Is Coburn trying to induce Manchin to change parties? Looks like it. Wset VA is not happy with the Democrats these days.
Maybe Rockefeller will retire? Would they vote him out? Would GOP have other than Raese in ‘14?
These guys all need to be term limited out.
It's called senility. Pure and simple. What he did is unjustifiable in any circumstance let alone this one. (couldn't find a conservative Republican that could have used some money eh Senator Coburn?) I'm real glad he's retiring after his current term.
If Manchin EVER comes over to our side (I would put odds of that at less than 10%) it will be because we have the Senate already and look likely to keep it. The man is good old boy scum and currently happy being in the party of Osama, Pelosi, and Reid.
It's a shame all we are throwing at him is John Raese again.
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