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Tom Coburn Knocks Fox News, Says Nancy Pelosi is a "Nice Person"
CBS News ^
| 4/6/2010
| Brian Montopoli
Posted on 04/06/2010 9:58:34 AM PDT by OldGuard1
Sen. Tom Coburn, a staunch conservative from Oklahoma, is doing what seems almost unthinkable in this polarized political climate: Defending his Democratic colleagues from critics at Fox News.
At a town hall meeting, Coburn suggested that a woman who said "they can put us in prison" for not obtaining health insurance under the health care reform bill is misinformed.
"The intention is not to put anybody in jail," he said. "That makes for good TV news on Fox but that isn't the intention."
He also defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the architect of the House version of the health care legislation that he fiercely opposed.
"I'm 180 degrees in opposition to the speaker -- she's a nice lady," he said. The crowd could be heard responding unfavorably to his characterization.
"Come on now, she is a nice -- how many of you all have met her?" continued Coburn. "She's a nice person. She's a nice person."
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coburn; fox; healthcare; pelosi; rino
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Ugh. Is there a brain slug on this guy or something?
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posted on
04/06/2010 9:58:34 AM PDT
by
OldGuard1
To: OldGuard1
Well that’s it, obviously Coburn has been coopted. Time to run a Tea Party Party candidate against him.
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posted on
04/06/2010 9:59:41 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
To: OldGuard1
Evil is often personable.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:00:34 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
To: OldGuard1
As usual, Coburn says what he thinks without regard to much else.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:00:49 AM PDT
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
A cottonmouth is nice until you disagree with it.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:01:14 AM PDT
by
NurseZac
To: OldGuard1
Who gives a crap if she’s ‘nice’. Evil can have a smiling face, Mr. Coburn.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:01:19 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: OldGuard1
There is some one here on FR who said he knew her and said that although he disagreed with her politcs, she was a nice person.
I cannot remember who it was.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:01:36 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: OldGuard1
""The intention is not to put anybody in jail," he said."
yeah, well the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and if you give a government agency the power to imprison, you damn well better believe some petty government bureaucrat will do just that...for no other reason than he or she can..
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:02:03 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(They will get my Fishing Rod when they pry it from my cold dead fingers)
To: OldGuard1
"The intention is not to put anybody in jail," he said. "That makes for good TV news on Fox but that isn't the intention." The road to h3ll is paved with good intentions.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:02:13 AM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: OldGuard1
Get a grip, Doc. Times are tough and we don’t much care if Nancy has a “nice” personality- she’s hell-bent on the socialization of America.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:02:26 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: OldGuard1
I understand Jeffry Dahmer and Ted Bundy were also “nice people”....
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:02:27 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: OldGuard1
didn’t she call Tea Party people Nazis?
To: Perdogg
There is some one here on FR who said he knew her and said that although he disagreed with her politcs, she was a nice person. I cannot remember who it was.
Obviously, this individual needs to be removed from Free Republic, and replaced with a Tea Party FReeper.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:02:39 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
To: OldGuard1
Sorry, Coburn, Nancy is a bee-itch of the worst sort - an arrogant, power-mad liberal.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:02:42 AM PDT
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
To: OldGuard1
Yeah, and Hitler liked dogs.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:02:51 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(Ronald Reagan: "Peace Through Strength." Barack Obama: "Perpetual War Through Utter Weakness.")
To: OldGuard1
we all need to stop focusing on words like “jail” and “mandatory” and “IRS” and “rationing”
Our Congress and law is all about intentions!
We all KNOW they only want what is BEST for us
Nan has good intentions, she is such a dear old lady
Bless her heart
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:03:14 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
To: PhiKapMom
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:03:57 AM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Bart Stupak: Judas, Neville Chamberlain or Benedict Arnold?)
To: OldGuard1
He means a nice person in a sort of reptillian, fascist sort of way, right?
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:04:12 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Entitlements will do to America what drugs eventually do to addicts)
To: OldGuard1
Nancy Pelosi is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
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posted on
04/06/2010 10:04:31 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
To: OldGuard1
Tom Coburn, yet another useful idiot. Time to put this silly old man to pasture.
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