Bullhead, Nicut (6/16/2009 7:22:38 PM)

Tsk Tsk Tsk, Senator Coburn.

okieboy1, tulsa (6/16/2009 7:36:59 PM)

About time somebody questions the "blank check" mentallity of this administration and it's hacks in congress.

SteveBrown777, tulsa (6/16/2009 7:37:04 PM)

Thank you Tom Coburn for continuing to make us all here in Oklahoma look like complete fools.

okieboy1, tulsa (6/16/2009 7:48:30 PM)

Hey if you fools want to spend $1 million on this, then feel free to make a donation.

google optima lake and see what a million dollars worth of guardrail will get ya.

Bodean, Tulsa (6/16/2009 7:53:12 PM)

Looks like Coburn was outsmarted. Before releasing a report with a "Hollywood flair" - no doubt a blow of the dog whistle to a certain element of society - he should make sure his facts are substantiated.

Daven, Tulsa (6/16/2009 8:04:12 PM)

Just like in the picture above. He is totally clueless.

desert fox, (6/16/2009 8:13:53 PM)

Coburn will do anything that gets him publicity. Why fact check anything when you have a storied penny-pincher's reputation to maintain?

TonyQ, Tulsa (6/16/2009 8:22:25 PM)

I see dead political parties.

okieboy1, tulsa (6/16/2009 8:23:43 PM)

Coburn will do anything that gets him publicity. Why fact check anything when you have a storied penny-pincher's reputation to maintain?
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So, who's checking the thieves in congress? Certainly not the administration who promised "transparency", whose own party members block every attempt to have open disclosure about where the money is going (earmarks) and which senator is asking for those earmarks.

"ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the democratic party...pens are available on the counter to write your own checks"

marlin, (6/16/2009 8:45:59 PM)

Can anyone name one thing that Coburn has done for the people of Oklahoma, just one thing?

lastdaysofrome, (6/16/2009 8:49:16 PM)

I am sick and tired of this liberal smooth talking president, telling everyone including the representatives, to make FAST decisions ("endless delays ")on everything he wants,Showing everyone that he and his administration are all about pulling "fast ones" on the American people.he realy does believe that all Americans are DUMB BLIND FOLLOWERS!!!! People need to wake up and start calling their representatives (dems and repubs) and stop this radical inexperienced progressive charmer, from turning our nation into a socialist policed nation.These progressives truly our not "pro American" they are pro "one world" and need to be stopped next voting cycle.I mean c'mon do you hear anyone talking about how he just FIRED one of his inspector generals because he was doing his job, and investigating one of obama's supporters(I think it was that outfit called americorp )to my knowledge this has never been done!!! wake up America from your Obama hangover,and realize that the Woodrow wilson progressive movement(mostly dems but some repubs too)are truly trying to TAKE OVER our great sovereign nation,all in the name of CRISES!! Stand up and be counted, because we still are the MAJORITY, apart from the lies they try to PROJECT!!!!!! This is NOT the change we voted for !! God bless America.Not "God darn america"

okieboy1, tulsa (6/16/2009 9:00:33 PM)

Can anyone name one thing that Coburn has done for the people of Oklahoma, just one thing?
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ok, one thing...watching out for my money.

Let's play pretend, since that is what we have now anyway, a pretend congress. IF...we take for a fact that the White House spokesperson is correct and that a 1/3 of Dr. No's claims are false and misleading, than that would leave 2/3's of Dr. No's claims as being substaniated by the WH. Let's see...2/3 of 5.5 billion...what, $3.6 billion going down the drain. Wonderful stuff there. That's just the tip of the iceberg. But, heeeeeyyy...I know peeps from all over the country are flocking to places like Optima Lake to...to...I don't know WTH they're going to do, but we gotta pour money into it cuz it's "stimulus" monies and we gotta have that..!

desert fox, (6/16/2009 9:00:51 PM)

The wingnuts are starting to swarm and "Limbaugh" anyone that doesn't like torture, rendition, and misleading us into pre-emptive wars. Mission accomplished.

desert fox, (6/16/2009 9:06:44 PM)

Coburn never points out the billions in the corporate welfare give aways to oil companies making billions or the unbelivable corruption in the military-industrial complex. Guess who finances his campaigns !

twoidhd, (6/16/2009 9:15:36 PM)

Tom Coburn is a little man in love with the sound of his own voice.

Bamm-Bamm, Bloomfield (6/16/2009 9:29:05 PM)

Anytime you want to trade Tom Coburn for Robert "Dial 2 for Spanish" Menendez here in NJ....we'll be glad to trade!

You have GREAT medical facilities in Tulsa. Get National Healthcare via The Car Salesman in Chief, and the same people who brought you the Postal Service will now be doing your colonoscopies!

okieboy1, tulsa (6/16/2009 9:29:19 PM)

And hurricaneharry, when is the last time and your family or friends went camping, fishing, hunting, boating or any other outdoor activities at Optima Lake? You're actually happy that the Corps of Engineers is going to spend a million bucks on a guardrail??? Amazing. Please turn your bank accounts over to your kids, surely they have more sense.

desertfox, please inform the rest of us how torture and the stimulus package ties in together. Could it be the cost of water buckets? Maybe you're part of the millions for equipment to detect life from other planets that we spend on like crazy.

In regards to his campaign donations, do tell desertfox, do tell.

Steelman, End of the Trail (6/16/2009 9:33:41 PM)

hurricaneharry,

The cynical view you espouse is part of the reason our country is in this kind of shape. Your view states that someone's getting the money, so we might as well get some too. That sounds pretty innocuous on its face, but when we are talking about $787 BILLION and a significant percentage of our GDP, it gets serious. The nation needs more bravery like that shown by Tom Coburn.

Bedazzled, (6/16/2009 9:34:03 PM)

Colburn is working on his own re-election and trying to make people forget he and the GOP were not good stewards of protecting us when Bush was on his spending spree destroying our country. At least this Administration is trying to fix the mess we are in and has saved jobs even though lots were already scheduled last year to leave in 2009.

Steelman, End of the Trail (6/16/2009 9:36:39 PM)

It's been pretty interesting to read these comments. Very few have actually taken the time to debate Coburn's points. The playbook seems to be to resort to name-calling, negative innuendos about his campaign contributors, and blind faith to the (Democratic) party line. Do any of you people think for yourselves?

Steelman, End of the Trail (6/16/2009 9:40:46 PM)

Bedazzled,

Anyone who has paid the least amount of attention to Coburn cannot argue with his track record of being fiscally conservative. The rest of the GOP cannot say the same thing.

Further, I'd like you to provide me a statistic or a metric, other than Obama's own spurious claims, showing how many jobs the Administration has "saved" year to date and exactly what jobs were "scheduled last year to leave in 2009." Please put down the Kool-Aid and elaborate on this bizarre statement.

RLG3RD, Broken Arrow (6/16/2009 9:43:09 PM)

Bedazzled you are brain dead

just passing through, (6/16/2009 9:53:45 PM)

I think it is great that the money for the guardrail has been pulled, because where a guardrail is really needed is in Osage County.

Where you ask? Try EVERYWHERE, but you can start with Prue Road.

okieboy1, tulsa (6/16/2009 9:58:12 PM)

Let's talk about transparency of our new administration, let's talk FutureGen. Now, isn't it funny that a project that the President said we couldn't afford and asked to be pulled miraculously found itself being funded to the tune of a BILLION dollars? Even when Speaker Pelosi said "we are serious about not having earmarks in this bill". And wouldn't you know it, FutureGen finds itself being funded because it "FITS" the requirements of the stimulus package, passed and overwhelmingly supported by who..democrats? Say it isn't so, Joe...say it isn't so.

TOPCPA, (6/16/2009 9:58:37 PM)

I may not like Tom but I agree. Stop the spending, goverment controls banks, manufacturing and trying for health insurance. Just say no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If goverment every control the oil & gas industries we would be like the east and west coast, broke.

Yes I have money, but not willing to invest the rules keep changing. As of the end of May I'm out of stocks have no clue what the rules are they change to OB liking.

We do not need the stimulus package, job created or save is nill but not according to OB.

Could be another Iran!!