I’ll take the orginal maverick, please
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Gary Bauer says Barack Obama wants to be John McCain. As one song puts it, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing, Baby.” Bauer puts it this way (love the Coburn quote at the end).
Since ascending to the U.S. Senate, Obama’s alleged aisle-crossing has been even harder to detect. In fact, Obama has proved the most dependably […]
Common sense
Monday, July 28th, 2008Is Tom Coburn.
Quote of the Day
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008This one comes from a concerned BYU College Republican:
…there seems to be a habitual disconnect between what Utahn Republicans want and what their elected representatives in D.C. fight for.
I agree. How many more election cycles will the Party have to lose before it learns its lesson that to win as Republicans, voters expect […]
Continuing Veep talk
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Lace provides us with the list of potential vice-presidential candidates. Upcoming posts will deal with why Senator McCain should pick Governor Crist(my choice of the three), Governor Romney, or Governor Jindal. But I want to look at the other candidates that may be under consideration. There are some stipulations. First, the candidate cannot be a […]
Parochial political culture
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has written a very interesting article in which is urges movement towards a culture of oversight and away from a culture of parochialism.
Real change is not shifting earmarks from Republicans to Democrats, but is in getting rid of earmarks (and their corrupting effect) all together.
Bits and pieces of Sen. Coburn’s article […]
Tom Coburn defends McCain
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain:
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Sen. Tom Coburn Endorses John McCain
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Update: Flower Power Pork: Butcher seeks to force vote to use earmark $ on children’s health care
Thursday, October 18th, 2007More egregious earmarks are coming to light in the Senate Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. The latest is an earmark from New York Sens. Schumer and Clinton, which would provide $1 million for a museum to commemorate the Woodstock festival. Robert Novak reports on the story today.
Addendum: From a Roll Call article:
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) […]
The Butcher seeks to smoke out earmarks in appropriations bills
Thursday, October 4th, 2007According to Congressional Quarterly, Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla., will offer several amendments “that will force senators to make choices between questionable earmarks and vital priorities.”
This is not the first Tom Coburn has made such a legislative manuever. He did the same thing on the Transportation bill, trying to force Senators into the uncomfortable choice […]
The Butcher Strikes Again: SCHIP Debate is a Farse
Friday, September 28th, 2007Tom Coburn speaks truth on the SCHIP bill. A bill which recently passed both chambers of Congress and is on its way to the President for his promised veto. A veto that will be sustained by at least the House and most likely the Senate.
My criticism of Republicans on this issue and other […]
