By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger It has not been a good year for President Barack Obama and the Democrats. And while most of the bad news was generated by Obama himself and the “ship of fools” he has surrounded himself with in the White House, it was congressional Democrats who paid the price Nov. [...]
Ten ‘Mama Grizzlies’ and a ‘Fat Guy’ GOP Future
December 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Americans Dying to Get Hands on Federal Funds
October 29th, 2010 · 13 Comments
First thing this morning, I shared news about Dead People Voting in Missouri; now, thanks to a great U.S. senator from the state of my birth, I bring news about ONE-BILLION TAX DOLLARS SPENT ON DEAD PEOPLE! U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) today released an oversight report, “Federal Programs To Die For – American [...]
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Senator Coburn Says ‘Yes’ to the Word ‘No’
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Michelle Malkin writes this afternoon about Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) delivering “a rousing defense of the ‘Party of No’” a short while ago in the nation’s capitol: “We’re accused of being the party of no,” he said. But “no is a wonderful word. When your child is misbehaving, you say no. When someone’s stealing liberty, [...]
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Ten ‘Heistman Trophy’ Finalists Named
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Today, one year after sharing a similar report in 2008, I share a new oversight report issued this week on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.). Inside, it contains candidates for what an annual award I’ve decided to call “The Heistman Trophy.” Among those, descriptions of [...]
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Senator Lists Wasteful Provisions of Stimulus Bill
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
In a post published yesterday on his web site, Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) lists nearly three-dozen “wasteful and non-stimulus spending provisions” in the deeply-flawed Senate stimulus bill. Those provisions appear below: • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Dept. of Energy defunded last year [...]
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Coburn Offers Fixes for ‘Generational Theft Act’
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) yesterday began offering amendments to the deeply-flawed Senate stimulus bill in an effort to improve the bill and ensure that taxpayer dollars will go to solutions will stimulate economic growth. His list of amendments includes the following: 1. Require that all money in the bill given to states be a [...]
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Report Highlights Worst Waste of 2008
December 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, today released the oversight report, “2008: Worst Waste of the Year.” The look back on 2008 features absurd federal spending from beltway bureaucrats and elected officials. “As we look back on federal spending for 2008, American taxpayers will laugh, and [...]
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