Fearless
Mar 19th, 2010 by David Anderson
Senator Coburn has thrown down the gauntlet to house sell outs.
For state employees blocked from Youtube and slow connections, here is the money quote. Can you say scorched earth?
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.
Please, please give us even more examples of Republicans obstructing the business of the nation. It can’t be repeated and documented enough. Let the backward Oklahomans become the face and the pace-setters for the Republican party.
The House just LOVES to be threatened by the Senate. Especially backward out-of-touch red state senators.
Yeah, that’ll work.
Sorry for obstructing bribery, and vote buying and the Congressional version of golden parachuttes. I didn’t know that we were encoraging that kind of stuff these days.
Coburn is an enthusiastic supporter of the previous Administration policy to borrow money from China and then write checks directly to just about every American in order to prop up its razor-thin electoral margins and keep itself in office.
And you want to talk about bribery?
The weird thing about crazy is that’s he is so anti-government that when asked about violence against the government, specifically Timothy McViegh bombing Oklahoma City in his home State all Coburn could say was:
I think it’s a shame when the government upsets people to the point where they do something like that. He had nothing bad to say about McViegh. Probably because McViegh was not a Muslim.
Amen Senator Coburn…stop the corruption here and now….
Granted this has happened in the past but you know what, I’m over that…let’s get to NOW and let’s be active in stopping it right here…right now.
Ya gotta love the delusional lefties showing up here to beg us to do what nearly 2/3 of the public is begging to be done: stop the runaway socialist trainwreck that is the Democrat party and their obsession with ruling health care in America.
Coburn voices exactly the type of real threats that millions of Americans want voiced and carried out againts the corruption and bribery being used to force feed us the mess of shit the D’s call health care “reform”.
Now worries my tin-eared Obamabubble dwellers. We’ll oblige you big time.
Anon said,”Coburn is an enthusiastic supporter of the previous Administration policy to borrow money from China and then write checks directly to just about every American in order to prop up its razor-thin electoral margins and keep itself in office.”
You must be in an alternative universe. Not taking as much of people’s money is now bribery. How about taking more being theft? It is the same logic isn’t it. Except that it is our money in the first place.
Now I will excuse you for not knowing Senator Coburn’s record because you may be a new reader and not have followed our posts on him during the Bush years. I can not let you mischaracterize him though without enlightening you. There is a reason that he is called Senator NO. During the Bush years he would often stand alone fighting the good fight against both parties.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Coburn
You must be in an alternative universe. Not taking as much of people’s money is now bribery. How about taking more being theft?
The money was borrowed. The checks went out. What part do you not understand?
The ‘conservative’ Hatch could learn something from Coburn.
“Ya gotta love the delusional lefties showing up here to beg us to do what nearly 2/3 of the public is begging to be done: stop the runaway socialist trainwreck that is the Democrat party”
Can anyone name anything more socialist than for the first time in modern history the President orders the Treasury Department to buy equity in banks, insurance companies, brokerages, and auto makers? That’s the very definition of the socialism you fear. What is it about the fact that it was Republicans, not Democrats that you do not understand? Is it because Republicans tell you they did not do that Democrats did? So you just say okay? Don’t be a sucker. How the heck do we fix anything with that kind of upside down thinking? “The Democrats are a runaway socialist train wreck” – when what happened in 2008 under Republicans says the exact opposite is true. Hello Mr. Orwell. You are right. It is happening. The loudspeakers, the radios, the television have turned minds to mush lies into truth. Not only are you spouting misinformation, you seem passionate about your lies. Reminds me of the old communists. Dialectic materialism enabled them to just make shit up.
Can anyone name anything more socialist than for the first time in modern history the President orders the Treasury Department to buy equity in banks, insurance companies, brokerages, and auto makers?
T123, teabaggers have made Bush a nonperson. The Bush Administration is lost in their memory hole, stuck in some undisclosed location alongside the Reagan tax increases and the Clinton boom. It never happened.
They will be quick to point out that Democrats held congress when TARP was passed. But remember, it was Bush’s Treasury Sec who called lawmakers and warned of martial law if the bailouts were not passed.
Repuboicans wet their pants and were for TARP at first. It wasn’t until they realized it would pass with Dems taking the heat, that some Repubs started coming out against it for political gain. Which they are reaping now among their base.
In case you forgot, the tea party movement started with the Bush Obama bailouts. Remember Senator Obama was a big supporter of the bailouts. It was not dumped on his lap. He was at the table devoloping it. He campaigned in favor of it.
Now it is like he dropped in from no where. I don’t like the fact that they didn’t just encourage a structured bankruptcy for GM and Chrstler, but if you remember it was Obama and the Democrats who asked the Bush Administration to give a bridge loan so they could do what they wanted. You are trying to rewrite history. I won’t let you do it.
Now when they decided not to buy the debts, but bought equity in the banks. I called that fascism. That was under Bush. It is still fascism under Obama.
In case you forgot, the tea party movement started with the Bush Obama bailouts.
Tea partying as we know it today is purely an outgrowth of Obama-hate. There wasn’t even a whisper of it during the Bush administration.
It started in 2009 within 2 weeks of Inauguration Day, and started making news with Rick Santelli’s rant.
Some of the teaparty websites were registered in 2008 but didn’t go live until 2009 – evidence of a pre-planned, corporate-organized fake citizen backlash.
Did you see Tea Party young men, well dressed, business types harassing the guy with Parkinson’s. The rage, throwing money at him? The only thing the didn’t do was spit on him. Sick sick puppies out there. It all stems from a deep dissatisfaction with their own lives. They look for external causes to act out against. I have seen this behavior many times acted out for different reasons. Self loathing manifests itself as rage against others.
Those were two people who were emotional who disagreed with the guy. They didn’t hurt anyone even though their behavior was shameful. Where they over the top? Disrespectful? Embarassing? Yes to all. Did they beat up people like pro-reform people? No. Did the crowd join them? No. If they did that to a liberal Congressman, i would cheer them. Their anger was misdirected.
Why focus on them? Should I focus on Claire McCaskill’s staffer that helped beat up a protester? Should I call Democrat staffer’s brown shirts? No. That is not the norm.
Let’s ask is this rage about self loathing or self preservation? When you are about to hurt people, they tend to get angry about it.