In today’s Washington Examiner, Philip Klein reports that even as “residents of his home state recover from the devastating tornado”,
Sen. Tom Coburn deserves credit for sticking with his position that all emergency aid spending should be offset.
“He’s always had the same position since the Oklahoma City bombing,” Coburn spokesman John Hart wrote in an email. “We should offset disaster aid by sacrificing less vital areas of the budget.”
Coburn, Klein reminds us, has, in the past, insisted that northeastern disaster relief should be offset by spending cuts elsewhere.
But by remaining consistent even when his own state has been at the receiving end of a brutal storm, Coburn gives more credibility to the limited government position.
Kudos, Senator. Would be nice if more elected officials followed your lead, reminding us that federal funds are limited and the government should prioritize its spending.
Just as do most Americans.
Thanks for the tribute to my awesome senator.
On Facebook, I saw a leftist complaining about Coburn for “his principled stance,” which she thought was extreme, etc. Nevertheless, she did use the words “principled stance,” and if that’s the worst they’ve got, I think Coburn will be happy to hear it.
Progressives apparently believe money just falls out of the sky from the butts of unicorns.
No, money comes out of the butt of Bernanke. Whether he is a unicorn, I can not say.
You should see (well… maybe not) some of the comments (e.g., at Business Insider) by bitter lefties saying that Tea Party Okies deserve what they got; Coburn is evil; the rest of the country shouldn’t bail out the teabaggers in OK, etc…
I’m quite the misanthrope and have a pretty dim view of humanity but even at that, I cannot comprehend the hateful, mean, and poisonous worldview apparently held by a lot of caring “liberals”.
How can people live nursing that sort of hatred day in and day out?
These people have no political philosophy other than that government should punish other people they don’t like.
Robert,
There was a late 80’s early 90’s series called War of the Worlds. Loosely based on the 1960’s movie. (The first season was, the second season was crap.)
There’s an alien/human hybrid in there who utters one of my favourite lines:
“I have nothing against humans. Some of my best friends are humans. But as a race they stink. And you know it. I say, ‘kill them all.'”
There are days…