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    With Friends Like These...

    AUGUST 19, 2011 10:52AM

    By Gary Holder-Winfield


    Topics: government, welfare, obama, tom coburn

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    The Looming Compromise on Revenues

    JULY 8, 2011 4:22PM

    By Steven J. Gulitti


    Topics: debt negotiations, republican party, obama administration, john boehner, eric cantor, mitch mcconnell, grover norquist, americans for tax reform, entitlement reform, vin weber, saxby chambliss, tom coburn, joe biden, pbs news hour, taxpayer protection pledge, medicare, medicaid, social security, mike lee, pew research polling, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 399 Views
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    The Tea Party, Taxes and Spending Cuts

    MAY 23, 2011 1:53PM

    By Steven J. Gulitti


    Topics: politics, american politics., tea party caucus, barack obama, martin feldstein, social security, medicaid, medicare, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, pete domenici, alan simpson, gang of six, bipartisan policy center's debt reduction task force, national commission on fiscal responsibility, scope of government, government spending, tax policy, david wessel, david stockman, tax foundation, grover norquist, john boehner, saxby chambliss, tom coburn, deficit reduction panels, tea party movement

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    The Winds of Folly Begin to Buffet Newt Gingrich

    MAY 20, 2011 1:35PM

    By Steven J. Gulitti


    Topics: newt gingrich, 2012 presidential elections, meet the press, david gregory, richard burr, nikki haley, tom coburn, rush limbaugh, alex castellanos, redstate.com, jon ward, politics

    • 2 Ratings
    • 270 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Everything I Need To Know I Learned in The Senate

    JANUARY 18, 2011 5:45PM

    By Kate Flannery


    Topics: charles schumer, tom coburn, politics, state of the union speech, bipartisanship, democratic, republican, kindergarten, senate, getting along, founding fathers, capitol, childishness, statesmen, barack obama, sitting together, corruption, hypocrisy

    • 1 Ratings
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    Judge Rules Against Health Reform, Takes Cash from Opponents

    DECEMBER 15, 2010 2:37PM

    By The Media Consortium


    Topics: virginia, tom coburn, thomm hartman, public health, mother jones, medicare, lawsuit, judge, insurance, henry hudson, health care reform, health care, health, campaign solutions, bush, affordable care act

    • 0 Ratings
    • 201 Views
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    Earmarks: Parochialism is the point (sort of)

    NOVEMBER 8, 2010 6:14PM

    By Cheese Factories on the Moon


    Topics: pete domenici, tom coburn, earmarks, congress, appropriations

    • 5 Ratings
    • 853 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Tom Coburn Won't Let Us Help Haitians

    OCTOBER 2, 2010 7:07AM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: haiti, humanitarian aid, politics, senate, tom coburn

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    • 371 Views
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    Voting to Extremes: The American Right To Screw Up a Vote

    MAY 27, 2010 11:17AM

    By Gus Sanchez


    Topics: politics, environment, music, president obama, lee dewyze, crystal bowersox, tom coburn, jim de mint, michelle bachman, nancy pelosi, thomas jefferson, tea party, rand paul, voting, "american idol"

    • 1 Ratings
    • 434 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    What Came Out of the Kabuki Health "Summit"? Whad'ya Think?

    FEBRUARY 26, 2010 1:09PM

    By Mick Arran


    Topics: health summit, obama, tom coburn, healthcare, corporate media

    • 7 Ratings
    • 790 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    A Day of Difficulty in Remembering

    NOVEMBER 12, 2009 1:23AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: memory, remember, memorial, rachel maddow, maddow, coburn, senator coburn, tom coburn, unfunded, funded, veterans, vets, health care, detached, coverage, boredom, disinterest, interest, salutes, flags, back-door draft, draft, war, politics

    • 8 Ratings
    • 1422 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Medical Transparency: The Siren’s Call

    AUGUST 26, 2009 9:37AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: actuarial, insured, insure, catastrophic, catastrophe, incentivize, incentive, privatized, privatize, private, tom coburn, coburn, meet the press, religious, religion, personal responsibility, responsibility, medical savings account, medical savings, savings, government intervention, government regulation, government, intervention, regulation, free market, market, universal coverage, coverage, universal care, care, single payer, public option, socialism, socialist, capitalism, capitalist, for-profit, profit, risk pooling, risk pools, pooling, pool, insurance, business, r&d, research, technology, science, health care, health, medical care, medicine, politics, kennedy, edward m. kennedy, ted kennedy

    • 3 Ratings
    • 415 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Family Values--Vegas Style

    JULY 11, 2009 1:10PM

    By Dorian de Wind


    Topics: tom coburn, familyvalues, gail collins, new york times, las vegas, hypocrisy, republicans, sanford, palin, politics, news, family, belief and religion

    • 11 Ratings
    • 4931 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Remembering Grampa

    APRIL 8, 2009 6:10AM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: true story, childhood, family, estrangement, alcohol, whiskey, cigars, catholic church, death, tom coburn

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