Posted on 01/17/2007 9:21:59 PM PST by Keyes2000mt
I don’t think it matters,” he said on a warm day in December, sitting in his office on the first floor of the Russell Senate building as the annual session came to a close. “It will be my first time in the minority party, but I’ve been in the minority the whole time I’ve been here.”
For Coburn, it’s a minority of one. Since his arrival in Washington, D.C., two years ago, no other senator has paved a more solitary path, butting heads with nearly every member of his own party and most of the opposition. In fact, as the Republican majority has run aground on fiscal issues over the past few years—racking up unprecedented deficits and a soaring national debt while the Democrats mostly kept out of the way—Coburn has often seemed like an opposition party unto himself. In April, for example, he tackled nineteen highly questionable expenses that his colleagues had slipped into the budget at the last minute—money that no branch of government had requested, which would directly benefit Senate campaign supporters. In September, he teamed up with Barack Obama to expose federal waste by putting the national budget on a public Web site—a prospect so alarming to some senators that two of them tried to kill it anonymously. And in December, as his Republican colleagues began cleaning out their offices to make room for the new Democratic leadership, Coburn fired a parting shot: Using legislative procedures, he blocked the GOP from finishing its annual business and pushed many of the most important budgetary decisions for incoming Democrats to make in the New Year.
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Frankly, those are the only 3 Senators that are worthy to be in Congress.
I would agree with your analysis. Those are my three favorite Senators.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Kyl is a good man. Hillorat wishs she was!
Thanks! Long but a great article, about a great man.
Last year there a few pieces of "work" that went through the senate. Those three are the only three that voted the right way on all of them.
Just finished reading Inhofe's speech in the senate exposing the global warming hoax. It should be posted in every public school in America.
Your assessment is correct.
Doctor Tom is a true American hero - it is a real shame he is such a minority in the parliament of whores known as the U.S. Senate (nod to PJ).
I remember the GOP establishment was very cool to him in his campaign. I hope he's there for a long, long time.
Only for 12 years. (He's pledged to term limit himself as he did in the House.) We better get people who can take his place.
Amen to that!
President Coburn has a nice ring.
I wish he'd run for President.
It should also be hung in the halls of CONgress and the White House. It should be discussed every day on talk radio. It should appear in at least one major publication everyday. ;*)
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