Comments from: Senator Tom Coburn FB Page

[sheshe2]

Tom Coburn
13 hours ago
My thoughts and prayers are with those in Oklahoma affected by the tragic tornado outbreak.

Comments:

Bruce Curtis Fleming You are simply just a bad person. I don't believe your dumb. What I think you are is much worse.... I believe you are smart and know how to manipulate people to vote for you. You use fear and key words that you know will get people fired up just so that they vote for you. I hope everyone in that town finds out exactly what kind of person you are and democracy can put and end to the fear you instill unto the people... Your a sick man to even post that comment and remember that your God supposedly watches all.
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Gary Cook You were elected by the same people who desperately need your help right now. Real Americans don't see red and blue states when disasters strike. We only see the United States!

You are being tested right now and you are failing miserably as a senator and a human being. Fucking piece of garbage!
24 minutes ago · Like · 3

Travis Pütz You're a despicable human being. Insisting on spending cuts BEFORE any relief?

To hell with you sir, and enjoy the weather!

Candace Baitz You may as well been with the looters last night digging through the rubble of what remains of people's lives. All in the name of your personal gain while parents look for their missing children. We are ashamed and I will make sure everyone I know remembers this in the next coming election. Or better yet we could cut some funding real quick with your job and your pension!
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Neil Blaisdell Your thoughts and prayers are worthless.

Mike Wilson You are quite literally threatening the well being of American lives by playing politics. Anyone who is threatening American lives should be considered a terrorist and an enemy to the American people. You are the enemy. Americans will not stand for this. You disgust us all. Also, go to hell asshole.
21 minutes ago via mobile · Like · 3

Jamie Lynn You are a pathetic excuse for a Christian, let alone a human being. How could you possibly block relief for people who so desperately need it. Of course, with your cushy senate salary and pension that you and your colleagues have continued to increase for yourselves (must be nice to give yourselves raises when the rest of the country is in the toilet), YOU would have the means to rebuild if this happened to you. Go jump off a damned bridge. You disgust me.
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Sherri Serbin You say you are a 'Christian' and believe in the 'sanctity of human life'? Would Jesus bargain before he helped people? Would he put budgets over human life and suffering? Money over people? What if those children were your grandchildren and your house and your life were destroyed? Would you say, "don't worry about us. Balance the budget first" have you no compassion, sir?
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Paul Carabajal what a hypocrite! You make this comment yet say you will vote against relief for the families who have lost EVERYTHING including CHILDREN! SHAME ON YOU! YOU ARE A TOTAL DISGRACE TO OUR GREAT STATE! PLEASE RESIGN NOW!
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Many more here.
https://www.facebook.com/teamcoburn?hc_location=timeline

What a soulless bastard!

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. I think garbage might have issues with being compared to this. nt

[BeyondGeography]

3. Some real outrage there

Sounds of the conservative ideological bubble finally being popped? Doubt it, but not a good sign for them at any rate.

[malthaussen]

5. I doubt it too.

Even if all these messages were from GOP supporters, their outrage is mainly based on the fact that suddenly, they are holding the sticky end of a stick. The voting public has a notoriously bad memory, so except in a few cases I'm sure it will be back to the Republican catechism sooner or later.

But it's nice to see his own people calling this useless piece of protoplasm exactly what he is. For a change.

-- Mal

[NewJeffCT]

7. well, remember the general election

Obama was winning soundly against the stumbling & bumbling Romney - seemingly on his way to a landslide win.

Then, in the first debate, Romney pulled his etch-a-sketch routine and embraced moderate policies that were at odds with all the hard right stances he campaigned on over the previous year. Following that, the Romney slide stopped and he had a big post-debate bounce that put him within striking distance.

And, his foreign policy was, as Bill Maher said, "What he (Obama) said, only from a white guy." Again, more moderation.

Obama still won handily, but he could very well have won an historic landslide if Romney continued his embrace of extremism.

[kardonb]

45. real outrage......

Coburn : Party , Part ueber alles . ueber alles in der Welt ! What a piece of ossified shit .

[mtasselin]

4. go to hell

I can not call you senator coburn, the reason why is that I respect senators. I a long with millions of other Americans think of you as a worthless piece of shit. When are you going to start representing the good, hard working Americans, if not now, when? You are nothing but a boot licking koch sucker, how much are they giving you for reelection, I can only hope the people in Oklahoma will wake up and kick your ass to the curb!

[Horse with no Name]

6. All of the budget/fiscal rhetoric becomes real when politics starts playing games with disasters

that are happening in your own backyard and all of the sudden the money is being requested is for "us" instead of "them".

Shit just got real Coburn. I have a feeling that the folks in OK will weather the storm, you however, probably won't.

Fuck you very much.

[NBachers]

8. REPUBLIKKKAN SCANDAL!

[jwirr]

9. K&R let us hope he is in the senate for the last time.

[lastlib]

21. (I think I heard he is retiring in 2016, so he probably is)

Good riddance to foul protoplasm! A wet turd-smear on the underwear of humanity. His replacement can only be an improvement, but I hope the people of Oklahoma wake up and make a REAL improvement (though, given their history, I'm not very confident that they will....)

[LibDemAlways]

10. I sincerely hope the people of Oklahoma get all of the

federal help they so desperately need. I also hope that this serves as a wake-up call to the voters who continue to put evil turds like Coburn into office. Elections do, indeed, have consequences.

[Fla Dem]

20. I believe the scumbag has already said he's not running for reelection. n/t

[DainBramaged]

11. The opening scene shows the tornado in the distance, weatherman's panicked voice over

the next scene is images of the damage,


slowly an overlay appears of Tom Colburns's face with the words "I insist on spending cuts before I approve any aid for Oklahoma"

The end scene shows the tragedy in the faces of those affected with the screen crawl indicating who paid for the commercial.



This fucker needs to go down for this.

[hobbit709]

13. The question is: Will the Democrats have enough guts to run an ad like this?

[Aviation Pro]

18. Yes...

...not only on the indoctrination tube, but across all social media.

Coburn is going down.

[SunSeeker]

30. Coburn said he is retiring in 2016. That ad needs to be tailored more generically against all GOP.

[treestar]

51. Why do people always have to blame the Democrats for the Republicans winning.

So they run this ad and still Coburn is succeeded by an idiot just like him. Is that ad really going to get conservatives there to vote for some Democrat there? And they are probably demanding it be a "progressive."

It's always the Democrats' fault that Republicans exist and take the positions they do.

[timdog44]

32. I think a great spending cut could be

the next aircraft carrier that we don't need. The USS Gerald Ford is under construction, to be done by about 2016. Cost, a staggering $13.5 billion with a B. And who knows what the final cost will be and the annual operation cost.

[cui bono]

38. Did he actually ask for spending cuts before getting aid for OK?

Is that what this is all about?

Or is it about earlier statements?

[relayerbob]

12. I see you only copied the nicer statements

Wow. Pretty nasty stuff there and lots of it

[jessie04]

14. Coburn is scum.

Lets see if he has the b-lls to insist on spending cuts before his people get fed help.

[relayerbob]

17. He already did

[mountain grammy]

15. Colburns comments and actions are shameful.."let them eat cake."

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. Could it be that people are finally waking up?

[KatyaR]

50. Nope.

I live in OKC, and the people I work with think "someone has to be the adult."

These people will NEVER get it.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

52. Somehow I think that were the president not a black Muslim socialist from Kenya...

they'd be singing a different tune.

Just my guess...

[tex-wyo-dem]

70. Let's just imagine for a moment...

That instead of their beloved republicon senator saying these words it was a Democratic senator, or worse yet, Obama himself. What would they be saying then?

I'm quite sure it wouldn't be "someone has to be the adult."

[nolabear]

19. Love the comment comparing him to the looters. Precisely.

[SunSeeker]

31. Exactly. Instead of helping the victims, he is trying to steal from the poor.

Because, of course, you KNOW when he says cuts, he is talking about cuts to social services for the poor, not cuts to the military, corporate tax credits, farm subsidies, etc.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

22. Having lived through tornadoes,

I've seen what they can do. It ain't pretty. If you think the movie "Twister" was sensationalizing things, you're mistaken. It actually underplayed the damage. Buildings leveled or completely missing in an instant. Small, innocuous object converted to deadly projectiles. Hellish hail and rain.

And you get idiots like Coburn and Inhofe calling Global Climate Change a hoax.

They're on the receiving end now, let's see if a few of their constituents wake up now.

[hrmjustin]

59. Welcome to DU my friend!

[Skittles]

60. HOWDY Nac Mac Feegle

that's a great first post

[LondonReign2]

23. As usual, republicans only start to care when if affects them personally

Where were all these comments when he was against Sandy relief?

[leftyohiolib]

24. blah blah blah come election time they'll all vote republican .. again

[OKNancy]

39. I doubt the comments are from Republicans. There are many Democrats in Oklahoma

Never use the word "all". It's kind of a broad-brush.

[leftyohiolib]

65. well i was refering to the republicans in oklahoma, not specifically to the commentors

in that no matter how badly the republicans screw them when the voting is done ok will still be a red state. the blah blah blah was a reference to that fact that no matter how many people complain on a web site when the voting is done the state will stay a red state.

[xtraxritical]

53. blah blah blah n' more chicken fried n' mo' biskit n' gravey mmm...

n' Waffle House, yeah! USA USA USA

[Blue State Bandit]

25. #F5LeadershipFail

I can think of a couple cuts that could help offset OK Tornado relief. How about the Senate Congressional Delegation.

Tom (No Disaster Relief for You) Coburn and James (Climate Change is a Hoax) Inhoff should resign now.
#F5LeadershipFail

[cactusfractal]

26. I can't comment there....

Coburn's minions banned me long ago for pointing out he's in the pocket of BigOil.

[geek tragedy]

27. How many of those are from actual Oklahomans? nt

[8 track mind]

68. well i can tell you that one of them is from

someone who's family grew up there

[liberal N proud]

28. Comments beg the question - How did that ass get elected and stay in office?

He didn't become this ass overnight, he has always been an ass, yet he has been elected and re-elected.

Maybe this should be voters wake up call.

[OKNancy]

37. He isn't running in 2014. He is retiring. We will get another asshole

in his place. Of course our party could run someone who could win and the national party could support Oklahoma Democrats... but that doesn't seem to be a goal.

[SCVDem]

29. Simply put

Thank goodness Barack Obama is our President!

Would you want Bush and Brownie?

[calimary]

47. Or romney?

ICK!!!!! He'd probably tell 'em to get money out of their secret bank accounts, or just go start a business.

God forbid!

Hmmm... come to think of it, I guess God DID forbid. Fortunately enough.

[Caeser67]

33. Funny How A Lot Of Them

Probably loved him when he was shafting the other states, now that it hit home, things are different.

[Buzz505]

34. People in Ok voted for Colburn!

They live their lives hating gay people, believing in the policies of the tea party, now what. They have voted to with hold money from social programs and now I am sure the do not want federal relief money. This is a different type of storm from Sandy. Sandy damage would not be covered by a home owners insurance policy, a tornado's wind damage is covered, therefore they do not need federal dollars.

[OKNancy]

36. "Some" people voted for him. You don't think there are Democrats in Oklahoma?

Did you write nasty things about Bush when the USA elected him?
Many people in Oklahoma can't stand Coburn, Inhofe and every other Republican elected official.
If the party would run some decent people against them, we Dems might do better.

[eridani]

67. Agrreed. If we had Howard Dean as DNC chair, we probably would get decent candidates

Everywhere--a 50 state strategy.

[cyberswede]

42. You should consider self-deleting your post.

Seriously.

[Blue Owl]

35. GFY Coburn

n/t

[cui bono]

40. Thanks for posting for those of us who are FB holdouts. n/t

[Wednesdays]

41. Coburn is a 17 mile long swath of destruction.

[calimary]

46. No. FAR MORE than 17-miles-long.

This selfish bastard's views help buttress and support and give aid and comfort to some downright unAmerican thinking - that hurts us ALL. The damage his world view does - extends far beyond his own beleaguered constituents, although, unfortunately, they're directly in the path of it at the moment.

And yet I wonder how many of them will go ahead and vote for him again the next time he's up for reelection...

[Daniel537]

43. Heading there right now.

What a piece of shit this guy is.

[scrubthedata]

44. I think I agree with most of that. nt

[RockaFowler]

48. More have been aded

And they get better and better each time!!

[Mz Pip]

49. I added my 2 cents

I can only hope that most of the comments come from disgruntled constituents.

[hue]

54. Looks like Oklahomans are waking up!! I'm sorry it took such a disater for the wake up call!

[michigandem58]

55. He's consistent

Always an asshole.

[Cha]

56. I'm not surprised, she.. Turns out Tom Coburn is a

Depicable being. Lately has been inserting himself into the Fake Benghazi "Scamdal" against the WH(Just how far we don't know yet).. and in 2012..

GOP Sen. Coburn: Medicare, Social Security “are things we don’t absolutely need”

GOP Sen. Coburn, who’s considered the Republican “expert” on health care, because he’s a “doctor,” just said that Medicare and Social Security “are things we don’t absolutely need.” (Video below.) Coburn has had it out for Medicare for a while now.

Other things Coburn doesn’t think we need include food safety, veterans’ benefits, and any kind of assistance to those who risked their lives responding to the September 11 attacks.

Ah yes, there’s nothing quite like the words of a pampered and entitled US senator preaching about what we need or don’t need, especially when it comes to Medicare and Social Security

MORE http://americablog.com/2012/12/coburn-medicare-social-security-dont-absolutely-need.html

[sheshe2]

63. I did watch the video and yes he is beneath contempt.

Sharing his idiotic ideas of what America needs. No handouts for the rabble only wealthy, that are the real "takers" in our society.

The GOP remind me of this song: From Jesus Christ Superstar.

Snip:

(Caiaphas)
Tell the rabble to be quiet
We anticipate a riot
This common crowd
Is much too loud
Tell the mob who sing your song
That they are fools and they are wrong
They are a curse
They should disperse

Snip:

(Jesus)
Why waste your breath moaning at the crowd?
Nothing can be done to stop the shouting
If ev'ry tongue was still the noise would still continue
The rocks and stones themselves would start to sing:

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/hosanna_jesus_christ_superstar_lyrics_andrew_lloyd_webber.html
All about Andrew Lloyd+Webber: http://www.musictory.com/music/Andrew+Lloyd+Webber

Well guess what, it's time for us to stand up. One voice and make our opinions heard loud and clear!

Cha.

[Cha]

64. I can see why.. Beings like Coburn are just begging

for the "Rabble" to shout down his Despotism.

she

[Dawson Leery]

66. Farm and oil subsidies are things we "don't absolutely need".

[Hubert Flottz]

57. Now Now...Tommy thinks aid would be great if...

the republicans could cut everyone's Social Security and Medicare and give the Koch brothers and Exxon some more bush era style tax relief.

[spanone]

58. evening KICK!!!!

[Hubert Flottz]

61. I like this story...Keep in mind that Tom is a "Family Values Man"

Tom Coburn Helped Cover Up John Ensign Affair: Senate Ethics Report

Snip

Ensign resigned from the Senate earlier this month, but had admitted in 2009 to having an affair with Cynthia Hampton -- a past campaign aide and the wife of Doug Hampton. During a two-year inquiry into possible violations by Ensign, the Senate Ethics Committee found that he violated campaign finance laws and obscured justice to cover-up his affair.

Coburn, a friend of Ensign’s who confronted him about the adultery, became involved as an intermediary in negotiations between Ensign and Doug Hampton. The former aide sought money from Ensign in spring 2009. Coburn negotiated the payment to Doug Hampton down from $8 million to about $2.8 million, according to the report.

The Oklahoma Republican's involvement in the cover-up of the affair could lead to uncomfortable questions for the senator and his party going forward. While Ensign left the Senate hastily last week, Coburn remains an active figure.

The report provides extensive details of the Coburn's collaboration. He spoke to Hampton’s attorney, Daniel Albregts, three times on May 22, 2009, to discuss money Ensign planned to give the Hamptons. Coburn first said he wanted to “help Doug out” because he liked him and felt bad about what had happened, the report says. The Oklahoma Republican asked Albregts to find out what Hampton needed to start over. Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/tom-coburn-john-ensign_n_861287.html

[alp227]

62. Permalink to the thread of comments:

https://www.facebook.com/teamcoburn/posts/10151445826478616

[pscot]

69. I love this post

Thank you. The man is getting a public shaming.

[NuttyFluffers]

71. how do you inform those most blind by their refusal to see?

you scream it in their fucking ear.

[King_Klonopin]

72. "Politics" means something completely antithetical to this sort

It means
political theater over purposeful function
ideology over practicality
demagoguery over public service
petty vendettas over cooperation and compromise
pretense over substance
rhetoric over action
grandiosity over humility
self over other
control over leadership
special interest over public interest

It is all self-serving and, ironically, self-sabotaging
to our government -- and, ironically, they are the cause
of the "bad", incompetent government they complain
about so biliously.