Posted on 03/18/2010 11:54:29 AM PDT by Red Steel
Sen. Coburn to House Dems: If you vote 'yes' this time, I will expose your pork and filibuster your nomination after you lose
Dr. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the Senator from bomb-throw:
SEN. TOM COBURN (R), OKLAHOMA: I want to send a couple of messages to my colleagues in the House.
If you voted no and you vote yes, and you lose your election, and you think any nomination to a federal position isn't going to be held in the Senate, I've got news for you. It's going to be held.
Number two is, if you get a deal, a parochial deal for you or your district, I've already instructed my staff and the staff of seven other senators that we will look at every appropriations bill, at every level, at every instance, and we will outline it by district, and we will associate that with the buying of your vote. So, if you think you can cut a deal now, and it not come out until after the election, I want to tell you that isn't going to happen. And be prepared to defend selling your vote in the House.
This is the Washington, D.C. equivalent of "I shall avenge unto the fourth generation and salt your family's plot of land with your blood." For once, some real change in D.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
ALL REPUBLICANS SHOULD WALK OUT ON CONGRESS AND THE SENATE UNTIL AND UNLESS THE dims cease the communist takeover of this Nation... the dims did it in TEXAS... the Republicans do not have the balls to do it... that is one thing that they could do... but talk is talk and Republicans never walk the walk... ever.
LLS
“A man’s greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them.”
Genghis Khan
You really have to hear the audio to get the full flavor of this. Coburn sounded very sinister and menacing.
Nobody is going to neuter Tom Coburn. The Senator from Muskogee, Oklahoma has been a thorn in Dingy Harry's side all along.
But I'm sure he'd welcome our support.
Aren’t these appts at the President’s discretion? If so... couldn’t they be replaced when we whomp the heck out of them in 2012? Seems they may have sold their soul for a mess of pottage...
Bribery, tax evasion and perversion are now the “law” of the land. Good for the goose, good for the gander.
These people need to be arrested today.
Senate consent required I believe, But you are right the appointments last only as long as our dear reader does. Then they can be dumped.
Actually, I prefer another quote:
Mongol General: “Conan! What is best in life?”
Conan the Barbarian: “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”
Maybe we can get Sen. Coburn a breech clout and a two-handed sword?
I thought McCain was the leader of the Republican party.
Awww... there goes Rep. Lynch’s appointment as Ambassador to Ireland... 8*)
Yea, it definitely has the ring of “make my day”.
The problem is that only a simple majority is required for a quorum in the House and Senate. In Texas, the Dems were able to walk out because 2/3 is required for a quorum.
Thank you Senator Coburn!
They did pretty good exposes the Senate bribery.
“A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them.” Genghis Khan
“All who surrender will be spared; whoever does not surrender but opposed with struggle and dissension, shall be annihilated.”
KHAN, Genghis
LLS
I called and said thank you. It was hard to not get choked up.
I think one of them was their whip.
You must be very young. It has been done, in 1995 the Republican Congress shut down the government... until Gingrich called it off. As a House member, Coburn was part of it.
And as for your carping, why don’t you just join up with the democrats. Nothing anyone on our side does will ever please you.
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