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Life and Deatherage (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Tom never wants to spend a single buck of taxpayer money that's not absolutely necessary. WASHINGTON — Protests by conservative lawmakers led architects to promise to add "In God We Trust" as the national motto and to engrave the Pledge of Allegiance in the new $621 million Capitol Visitor Center. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, had threatened to delay Tuesday's opening of the marble-and-stone...
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BlueOregon (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
I certainly hope that the State of Oklahoma isn't looking for money for a swanky new federal highway anymore, because I'm getting pretty sick and tired of Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R-Gasbag) blocking the Mt. Hood Wilderness legislation: Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., pledged to filibuster a massive lands bill that included about 125,000 acres of new wilderness on Mount Hood and along the...
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Save The GOP (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
As Yellowjacket foreshadowed with his post the other day, Senator Tom Coburn did indeed publicly offer his views on what went wrong and how we can fix it in an article in Forbes Magazine. Some folks might not like the conciliatory gesture Dr. Coburn makes with his title of “Hands Across The Aisle”, but [...]
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Cranky Greg's View (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has written the most cogent explanation of what went wrong on Tuesday.It was the Republicans not acting like conservatives. It was not a failure of conservatism, it was the Republican abandonment of conservatism while preaching...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Rep. Dan Greenberg and his small band of libertarians are taking on a vast state bureaucracy in Arkansas. But can he and his ideological partners in crime defeat the entrenched interests on the Interior Design Board? Read all about it here.
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BatesLine (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
From Sen. Tom Coburn's office today. Pay special attention to the bits I highlighted: On November 4, the American people had the opportunity to choose between two candidates with the character and temperament to be not just good presidents but great presidents. John McCain ran the best campaign he could...
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Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
In my ‘Tuesday Evening Quarterback’ post yesterday, I shared my belief that American conservatives, perhaps, would have preferred someone more like Ronald Reagan to be their team’s starting quarterback (i.e., presidential nominee) and mentioned Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) as a worthwhile choice. Today, Senator Coburn released the following statement regarding last night’s election...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Dr/Sen. Tom Coburn was among the first Republican senators to release a statement on the election results. Is a challenge to McConnell in the offing? "On November 4, the American people had the opportunity to choose between two candidates with the character and temperament to be not just good presidents but great presidents. John McCain ran the best campaign he could in a very difficult environment...
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USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The Republicans were taken to the woodshed last night and there is a very good reason why. For those still looking for an explanation, you can find it in the words of Ronald Wilson Reagan: A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers. Read ...
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Blue Crab Boulevard (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... been keen to publicly back the global cooling theory. But both senators from Oklahoma, Republicans Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe, have often expressed doubts about how much of a role man-made emissions play. “We want the debate to be about science, not fear and hypocrisy. We hope next year’s wave of new politics means a return to science,” said Coburn aide John Hart. “It’s the old kind...
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... on FOIA reforms . John Ensign's hold on electronic filing of Senate disclosure forms . And there's Tom Coburn's hold on just about everything --though to be fair to Coburn, his MO is usually to obstruct things he finds culturally offensive, not matters pertaining to oversight. Still, someone's out there making sure that no one is watching over our $700 billion dollars. Now why would...
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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
"Justice Denied: Waste & Mismanagement at the Department of Justice," is a massive report issued in October by the office of U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the lead Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security. In one section of the report Coburn outlines DOJ outreach to two which are unindicted...
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... at the Department of Justice," is an 86-page report issued in October by the office of U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security. [...] But just as important is its detailing of DOJ outreach with questionable Islamist organizations, including two which...
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... at the Department of Justice," is an 86-page report issued in October by the office of U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security. [...] But just as important is its detailing of DOJ outreach with questionable Islamist organizations, including two which...
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U.S. News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... is not "neutral." Another group of dissenting senators (Jon Kyl, Jeff Sessions, Sam Brownback, and Tom Coburn) goes further, calling the majority report "factually inaccurate, tendentious, and misleading;" an apt ending to an investigation they characterize as "politicized witch hunts." Both minority opinions downplay the importance of the issue: The Specter/ Grassley statement says that...
