Wednesday, April 07, 2010

POLITICS - Wait! This Cannot BE! Coburn a Turncoat?

"Has GOP Sen. Tom Coburn Drank the Kool-Aid?" by Bluegrass Pundit

Conservative GOP Sen. Tom Coburn is criticizing FOX News and defending Nancy Pelosi? I hope he was drunk. Any other reason is unforgivable.

From The Hill:

Conservative GOP Sen. Tom Coburn defended Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and criticized Fox News in audio released Tuesday.

Coburn (Okla.) spoke at a recent town hall meeting that was taped by KGOU Radio.

When discussing the short-term unemployment benefits extension that he is stalling, to the chagrin of Democrats, Coburn said he is "180 degrees in opposition" to Pelosi but that "she is a nice lady."

That comment drew boos and jeers from the crowd, but Coburn asked the crowd for calm and spoke about civility.

“Come on now. She is nice — how many of you all have met her? She’s a nice person,” Coburn said. "Let me give you a little lesson here. I hope you will listen to me. Just because somebody disagrees with you don’t [sic] mean they’re not a good person. And i want to tell you, I've been in the Senate for five years and I’ve taken a lot of that, because I’ve been on the small side — both in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party."

...The senator continued, telling the mostly conservative crowd not to be fooled by the "biased" information from Fox News.

"What we have to have is make sure we have a debate in this country so that you can see what’s going on and make a determination yourself,” Coburn said. "So don’t catch yourself being biased by Fox News that somebody is no good. The people in Washington are good. They just don’t know what they don’t know."

bbbbb...but Rush said, bbbb...but that's not in-line with GOP "truths."

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