Tag: Tom Coburn

It seems the government shutdown has ended and the Democrats have remained victorious in the battle that was SHUTDOWN 2013, as Fox News was putting it. Republicans have a 74% approval, they’re lowest since Gallup has been taking the poll. Democrats are down in numbers too, but retain better numbers….

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Muskogee, Oklahoma on Wednesday, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said President Barack Obama was getting “getting perilously close” to the constitutional standard for impeachment. Sen. Coburn’s comments about President Obama coming close to the constitutional standard for impeachment came in response to a question…

While I posted a link up a while ago, that pointed out all of the jobs we are missing out on by not having a sane energy policy. It was met with mild interest with mostly just attacking the source. In a recent NY Times column, Thomas Friedman, re-iterated what…

According to a spokesman for the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Mark Neumann, Neumann and U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn – the first public official to endorse Neumann – are “ideologically speaking, two peas in a pod.” Seeing as how Neumann and Sen. Coburn are “ideological peas in a pod,” I can’t…

A couple of weeks ago, Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who’s about as conservative a lawmakers as there is, debunked the idea that anyone who doesn’t buy health insurance coverage under the new health care reform legislation will be subject to imprisonment. After an audience member at a town…

Roughly six minutes and forty-five seconds into his opening statement during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) referenced President Obama’s desire for a Supreme Court nominee with empathy, as if a Supreme Court justice shouldn’t have empathy. What’s interesting about Sen. Coburn’s remarks regarding…