Dr. Coburn was not supported in the primary of '04 by the GOP. The good conservative voters of OK put him in office in spite of the GOP establishment. That is what should happen in every state.
And by the way, where IS George Bush's veto stamp? Pres. Reagan, a real conservative, vetoed a bill for having 150 pork-barrel earmarks. Pres. Bush, who is no conservative, signed off on 15,268 pork-barrel payoffs, including $2,000,000 for a new public park for Diane Feinstein in San Francisco. I guess the perverts were over-crowding the old parks...truly a pressing public need. No wonder deficits have ballooned during Bush's administration. You can't have guns and butter, a lesson we should have learned long ago.
I now the Whine all the Time Choir doesn't want to hear any reality but it does NO GOOD for a President to veto spending bills that have all ready passed the Congress with the required votes to override that veto.
How about the Whiners just ONE time remember their BASIC civics education? CONGRESS, not the Executive, holds the purse strings.