Now here's a guy doing what conservatives in congress should be doing--blocking wild spending.
Perhaps you've heard, from many mainstream news media sites, about Coburn's "obstructionism" in the Senate? But there's another side to it:
"Frustrated by Tom Coburn's "unprecedented obstructionism," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cobbled together a "Tomnibus" of 35 bills with "broad—virtually unanimous—bipartisan support" that Coburn had blocked. On Monday the Oklahoma Republican blocked them again. Unable to muster the 60 votes needed to overcome Coburn's opposition, Reid castigated the Republicans who had sided with the obstreperous obstetrician. "You go home and explain to...the next person you see in a wheelchair, 'I voted against you because Harry Reid was being a tyrannical guy in the Senate,'" the Nevada Democrat said. He also accused the Republicans of voting against victims of stroke, Lou Gehrig's disease, postpartum depression, and child pornography."I have never been a bully," Reid insisted while caricaturing his opponents as cripple kickers, mother haters, and molester lovers."
Read the whole thing. Note Reid's demagogy. Note that Coburn offered to stop blocking Reid's bill--IF Reid agreed to $45 billion in spending cuts, to avoid spending money we don't have. Reid never responded.
