He said, “not intellectually honest”
Coburn, who really was a good conservative for years according to the vast number of freepers, was dismayed that they could not act on ObamaCare. He considered Cruz’s tactic of saying it could be defunded as ‘intellectually dishonest”.
Did Coburn say “Cruz is a liar?” Nope.
Did Coburn say that Ted Cruz’s tactic was “intellectually dishonest” because it misled about repealing ObamaCare? Yes, he did.
We did not have 67 votes to override a veto. It wouldn’t have happened, and ObamaCare would not have been repealed. What our side could have done, though, is show that it was really fighting, and not just play fighting.
I don’t have much regard for those phony fights. It wouldn’t have been a phony fight to attempt to withhold funding in exchange for Obama repealing ObamaCare. It would have been notice that a line had been drawn, that ObamaCare would some day go down.
All that said, disagreeing with me on that did not make Senator Coburn a liberal. It made him a disappointment. It only made those who refused to draw the line a disappointment.
Yes, Tom Coburn did not call Ted Cruz a “liar” because Senators don’t call other Senators liars. It is just not done.
Opps!
Except that Ted Cruz did call Mitch McConnell a “liar” when he could have said Mitch McConnell had not been “intellectually honest”. But he didn’t. So it really does appear that the “Senator is a liar” meme got started by Ted Cruz.
The “Town Halls” tonight will be interesting. :-)