Coburn Criticized
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee, hasn’t officially announced that he will run for a second term next year, but the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is already gearing up to fight him.
After the vote on the stimulus package yesterday, the committee released a statement saying:
“President Obama and the American people asked Congress to work together to pass an economic stimulus, many in the Congress headed their call unfortunately Senator Coburn was not one of them.”
Coburn opposed the stimulus package from the get-go, and in the strongest possible terms. He backed an alternative offered by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, that would drastically cut the size of the package and made it more weighted to tax cuts.
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Senator Coburn voted as the people who elected him wanted. From the one sided reporting of the bill, all would seem okay, but how does the hospital portion of the bill stimulate jobs. How does ATV trail building create more than a temporary job. No Senator Coburn is voting the way I would want him to.
The stimulus bill and funding for banks will simply be gobbled up by the same crooks who got us here. Making loans via variable APRs was a ploy to make money, by the banks and the buyers who couldn’t qualify any other way. I lived for almost 35 years in rental houses because of not having enough money to afford to reasonably take on such a debt.