Comments on: Coburn: I’m running again

By: SKYFOX

SKYFOX — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:13:46 +0000

And God lives in Stillwater. He wears orange and black, all of the time.

OhEssYouCowboys

God lives everywhere…but while in Bloomington He wears cream and crimson. He moved out of South Bend years ago.
Good on ya, OK. Keep the fire alive. Our governor is trying to do the same here in Indiana. Our senators, not so much.

By: J.E. Dyer

J.E. Dyer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:06:25 +0000

Coburn almost makes up for Stoops. (Hook ‘em).

LASue on June 1, 2009 at 3:28 PM

The Texas side of my family says “Gig ‘em!”

The Oklahoma side is more split. Some say “Sooner born, Sooner bred, when I die, Sooner dead!” Others make confusing noises about orange and black, and wear creepy-looking images of some mustachioed fruitcake calling himself “Pete.”

Either way, I’ll join you in Hooking ‘em before I’ll EVER do anything other than spit when that skin-crawling Trojan Fanfare, played by that low-class Daycare Facility for Spoiled Children down the road, skirls up. What a racket.

Give me real football. All the rest is halftime entertainment.

Coburn’s a stud, BTW.

By: Christian Conservative

Christian Conservative — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:14:06 +0000

We have two great Senators here in OK. Coburn and Inhofe. Actually, I’ll take Inhofe even before Coburn. Inhofe would not be pressured into voting for TARP 1. There’s one guy I can contribute to! (But I will for Coburn also.)
Coburn was big on term limits earlier in his career. I hope he can bring that to the fore in the Senate when the coming backlash hits.

By: texasaggie

texasaggie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:30:10 +0000

Wish conservative Texans could count on our Senators to vote conservative. They are both quite unpredictable, Kay Bailey more so. I still haven’t recovered from the conversations I had with both of their offices during the Shamnesty debacle. My husband and I hope to move to Oklahoma once we retire.
Hope God can find us there—don’t you know God lives in College Station and wears maroon with his white!

By: Chaz706

Chaz706 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:05:55 +0000

Though I love the idea of term limits, the problem I have with people who use self imposed term limits is that all the other hacks in the Senate will just wait their them out. Senators who seriously support term limits should stay in office and fight until there are enough of them to actually get the issue taken seriously. When the law is finally passed, then they can leave office.

A noble stance, but we lose too many decent people to self imposed term limits. Leave when the job is done.

Daemonocracy on June 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM

On this point I agree with you… but the man has made his choice I’m afraid.

If only more senators took a principled stance like him.

By: either orr

either orr — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:56:02 +0000

The doctor is in the Senate. Keep him there.

By: Maquis

Maquis — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:35:13 +0000

One of the reasons I’m looking for a home in OK.

By: rich8450

rich8450 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:32:44 +0000

Can you imagine how much better our country would be if all of our representatives were in the mold of Sen Coburn!

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:30:19 +0000

What Dr. Coburn said in his announcement is so sensible that it’s difficult to imagine a self-respecting citizen disagreeing with his stance.

This is the best news in an otherwise depressing day.

By: PrincipledPilgrim

PrincipledPilgrim — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:10:38 +0000

We don’t need term limits because that power already resides with We The People — we just choose not to use it. Term limits only address the symptoms of the problem, not the root. Good laws/rules should not punish the good along with the bad. ~~And then the few good men up there have to be punished for the sake of those who take advantage of their power.~~ The root of the problem lies with the electorate; they need to be as literate as those at the time of our founding. Then the problem self-corrects.

PrincipledPilgrim on June 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM

By: PrincipledPilgrim

PrincipledPilgrim — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:10:04 +0000

Though I love the idea of term limits, the problem I have with people who use self imposed term limits is that all the other hacks in the Senate will just wait their them out. Senators who seriously support term limits should stay in office and fight until there are enough of them to actually get the issue taken seriously. When the law is finally passed, then they can leave office.

A noble stance, but we lose too many decent people to self imposed term limits. Leave when the job is done.

Daemonocracy on June 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM

We don’t need term limits because that power already resides with We The People — we just choose not to use it. Term limits only address the symptoms of the problem, not the root. Good laws/rules should not punish the good along with the bad. And then the few good men up there have to be punished for the sake of those who take advantage of their power. The root of the problem lies with the electorate; they need to be as literate as those at the time of our founding. Then the problem self-corrects.

By: Sterling Holobyte

Sterling Holobyte — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:57:13 +0000

Makes me want to move to Oklahoma.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:51:03 +0000

teffertoes on June 1, 2009 at 3:03 PM

I’m proud to call that man my Senator. Not too many can say that. :)

I definitely cannot say that. This resident of Taxachusetts is pleased to see Senator Coburn run for re-election.

By: Abby Adams

Abby Adams — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:50:06 +0000

ginaswo on June 1, 2009 at 3:44 PM

Right. Because politicians can NOT be friends with people from the other party and should never dare to try and work with them for the good of the country. Politics needs to remain an “us or them” game where the twain shall never meet.

By: Speedwagon82

Speedwagon82 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:48:03 +0000

Obama said he wouldn’t run for POTUS during his first Senate term, so we know the Dims ALWAYS keep their promises.

By: ginaswo

ginaswo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:47:51 +0000

Coburn was all lined up to Hug the One in February, guess when Obama compared him to a terrorist in that last debate that didnt bother him lol, dont get me wrong Im glad he is running, we moderate Dems looking for sanity need people to vote for..but he did carry a lot of weight with GOPers who crossed over and voted Obama in open primaries…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTwEMGYaD0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znBGIJdE9d4

By: ginaswo

ginaswo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:44:24 +0000

I wish Tom Coburn has not spent so much time talking about how great Obama was in the Senate and all throughout the Dem primary though….at least twice in each debate Obama would say, my good friend Tom Coburn, with whom I work across the aisle, can attest to my bipartisan approach…

yeah so much for that…

By: OhEssYouCowboys

OhEssYouCowboys — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:34:49 +0000

tre on June 1, 2009 at 3:31 PM

tre, nice to meet you! Class of ’80! Best four (4) years of my life.

And God lives in Stillwater. He wears orange and black, all of the time.

By: tre

tre — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:31:06 +0000

Californians to migrate to Oklahoma for sanity and opportunity?

BuckeyeSam

Route 66 is still there, and it goes both ways.

OhEssYouCowboys, I’m an OSU alumni, too. God likes OSU because Psalms 23:2 says, “He leads me beside Stillwater”

By: LASue

LASue — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:28:09 +0000

Coburn almost makes up for Stoops. (Hook ‘em).

By: lm10001

lm10001 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:25:23 +0000

There was an idea embodied in the Roman citizen Cincinnatus. It was that a person would serve the state but that wasn’t what they really wanted to do. They took up arms or responsibility because the times called for it. Coburn actually believes that. He’s not there to get rich, he’s not there for the interns, he’s not obsessed with power. I thank God he’s running again because there aren’t many people who work there that don’t believe they themselves are god. Coburn is one of the few people there to perform service to country. So I say … harumph

By: OhEssYouCowboys

OhEssYouCowboys — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:23:59 +0000

Californians to migrate to Oklahoma for sanity and opportunity?

BuckeyeSam on June 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM

Reverse Okies?

:O)

By: BuckeyeSam

BuckeyeSam — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:21:49 +0000

The state resisted Obama fever and supported John McCain by a 2-1 margin in 2008…

Californians to migrate to Oklahoma for sanity and opportunity?

By: Abby Adams

Abby Adams — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:17:44 +0000

When you hear the phrase “fiscal sanity”, does your mind go anywhere other than Tom Coburn first?

By: OhEssYouCowboys

OhEssYouCowboys — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:12:22 +0000

ALL Seventy-seven (77) counties in Oklahoma were red, in the last election.

God bless anybody in Congress who will fight the Socialism that is destroying this country. What sickens me the most, is that the majority of Americans are now Socialists … even if they can’t define, or even spell, the word.

Heavy sigh. I hope that we can take our country back.