FS, Broken Arrow (11/18/2009 9:34:53 AM)

Coburn voted against the banking bailout until the pork was added - then came his "yes" vote. Now he votes against help for those who allow him to continue his nonsense, supposedly because it's not funded.

What about your vote for the banking giveaway, Coburn? How much lobby money helped you change you mind, Coburn?

There is nothing honorable about Tom Coburn, regardless of what people believe - he's simply another scum-sucking politician in the game for himself and his personal profit.

Ron Ballew, Lawton (11/18/2009 9:45:59 AM)

Colburn's amendment to reduce UN funding will be voted down and then the Veteran's bill will be passed.

Colburn did not ask for much and he will get nothing for releasing the Veteran's bill.

Maybe this is the only way he could get a vote on reducing UN funding. If so, there will be more on this topic later.

Makeda, Tulsa (11/18/2009 9:50:14 AM)

He wasted valuable time and for what? He acts like a spoiled little brat, I can't wait till his term is over. Next, please.

Thunder196, Tulsa (11/18/2009 9:59:19 AM)

We are never given the whole story. Just what is released to the news media. Too bad we didn't get the whole story of what was going on.
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Coburn is exactly what we need. Someone who does not jump through the hoops just because everyone wants him to.
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Good job Coburn.

Garf56, (11/18/2009 10:03:47 AM)

I wonder how many dollars Coburn put in his pocket, to finally get on the ball? He is about nothing more than money. Oklahoma may wake up some day and get rid of this idiot.

Alaska_Okie, Bixby, OK (11/18/2009 10:05:51 AM)

You all act like the moment a bill becomes law the VA adjusts and implements immediately. It takes anywhere from 6 months (many times more than a year) for the VA to catch up. So if a few weeks of debate will enhance a bill, why demonize the person trying.

Pelosi / Wallace, Separated at Birth? (11/18/2009 10:16:32 AM)

It was him against them. I don't think "them" won. It could have ended up being a compromise, but I still think Coburn won in the end.

hbrink, (11/18/2009 10:22:32 AM)

Come on...we're all for getting the injured vet care when he comes home. The truth is this isn't what happens when legislation gets passed..you give all those people that take advantage of the system a free pass to do it. Keep looking at it till it's cleaned up...Coburn!

SRV, (11/18/2009 10:26:22 AM)

Will he also propose an amendment labeling him a Reject of the Party of No!?

50,000 ft, (11/18/2009 10:45:33 AM)

His continuing ethics problems will start to erode his capability to showboat. That house he and his buds have been living in tax free, has just been "discovered" by the DC dept of taxation. "Shockingly", it looks like a townhouse, not a church. They are going to try to collect back property taxes, surely he will man-up a pay what is owed even beyond the statute of limitations. An honest, god-fearing, upstanding Oklahoman would atone for such a devious action to avoid taxes destined for schoolchildren. Is he honest? Will he pay? Or has he become another resident of DC looking out for himself with contempt for the rest of the nation?

GTG, Collinsville (11/18/2009 10:46:05 AM)

Coburn wasn't against wounded vets here, he was taking advantage of an opportunity to promote fiscal responsibility. The whole country thinks Congress is on a drunken spending binge and you fools want to villify Coburn for trying to stop them from printing more worthless money? Why don't you all crawl back to your Starbucks and wax poetic on the greatness of the United Nations and your Birkenstocks? :(

broezekiel, Sand Springs (11/18/2009 10:54:05 AM)

The simple truth is (to those who choose to see it)Tom Coburn is an embarassmentto Oklahoma, rivaled only by Jim "No Such Thing As Global Warming" Inhoff. Boy, we got some winners representing us!

mayor_maynot, Tulsa (11/18/2009 11:00:06 AM)

Coburn. BURN CO dot scam.

mayor_maynot, Tulsa (11/18/2009 11:04:00 AM)

Yea 50,000'. Just like Alamo

fife and drum 1776, USA (11/18/2009 11:18:17 AM)

Good ole American way. One person telling all the others to "stuff it".
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Can't wait for his turn in regards to the new health care bill. He is threatening to make them read out loud. This guy is good at his job.

FS, Broken Arrow (11/18/2009 11:18:52 AM)

GTG:

If you would check, you'll see that Coburn voted against the banker's bailout until a sufficient amount of pork was added - then, he voted for the bill which was little changed except for the additional waste.

Coburn is not interested in saving money unless it can be taken from those with the least political clout.

This idiot Coburn and his counterpart Inhofe make me ashamed to call myself "conservative".

hapbarb, (11/18/2009 11:21:07 AM)

Coburn & Inhofe: Our local idiots with a national pulpit. I hope that the Doctor sticks to his two-term pledge.

Hijinx, (11/18/2009 11:22:12 AM)

The only thing Coburn was taking advantage of is an opportunity to showboat for the press. fiscal responsibility is a nice catch word he likes to use. But his ability to vote for just the opposite indicates a hypocrisy inherent to the neo-cons.

BTW, Your apparent disdain for Birkenstock is puzzling considering you righties are all about free enterprise!

In October 2002, Birkenstock USA announced that the company was 100 percent employee owned. Margot Fraser, the company founder, passed on the remaining shares of the business she founded more than 35 years earlier, to her successors – the employees who continue to help build the Birkenstock USA company. And in 2006: The company celebrates its 40th Anniversary in the U.S.

I guess companies must have an off shore account with headquarters overseas, like Halliburton, to win favor with you wing-nuts.

wardog, Miami (11/18/2009 11:32:02 AM)

I'm sure he wasn't blocking just money, like ALL the other somewhere deep inside this bill there is big money to be made, not for vets. We all should have worked for the government...this is who has money, big money, little money, money we don't have. These are the best jobs, the best retirement, the best health insurance. And it they don't get it...books are changed, little things here and there, they get it. We find out about it maybe 10 years later. The money stops in every government office.

Corvetteguy, Tulsa (11/18/2009 11:42:05 AM)

Senator Reid has been watching his dropping poll numbers........

At least he will have that lucrative congressional pension to fall back on....

That and his gold-plated congressional health coverage plan for life.

Few Clothes, America (11/18/2009 11:45:15 AM)

GTG and broezekiel, as a veteran I am grateful that Dr. Tom looks out for us.

GTG. Why don't you crawl back to your world of greasy food, beer, chips, and fried foods? Oklahoma should shoot for the bottom 50th in unhealthy next year. I'm sure both of your Kool Ades are laden with sugar.

orlly, (11/18/2009 12:07:33 PM)

As a 100% p&t disabled vet I am embarrassed! There is nothing more to this story then what was said. Tom likes the press, he accomplishes nothing but bringing attention to himself.

Oklahoma is next to last for health this year, with our "Doctor" looking out for us....

Corvetteguy, Tulsa (11/18/2009 12:14:27 PM)

orlly,

you had an opportunity to vote just like the rest of us.

An overwhelming majority of Oklahomans support Dr. Tom Coburn.......

AllSmiles, Sperry (11/18/2009 12:27:36 PM)

FS~~~"There is nothing honorable about Tom Coburn, regardless of what people believe - he's simply another scum-sucking politician in the game for himself and his personal profit."

ENOUGH said.....

Calgonbath, (11/18/2009 12:28:51 PM)

News reports Dr. Tommy Kook-burn, the disgrace to the state of Oklahoma and the US Senate, will be investigated for tax evasion along with the rest of the kooks in the Washington DC "C Street" (NOT-"Church") house of lies and deception. He just thought his troubles started soiling his pants with his fellow criminal Sen. Ensign of Lost Wages, NV. Crooked-kook-creeps like Sen. Kook-burn hide out at "C Street" but stay tuned for his indictment.