Losers and Idiots heap praise on Senator for Life, Tom Carper
Sens. Tom Coburn and Mary Landrieu gave their farewell addresses on the Senate floor Thursday and were praised by colleagues. Coburn gave an emotional address about the power of individual senators and the importance of compromise and oversight. He praised Sen. Tom Carper, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee where Coburn is ranking member. “He has been a phenomenal chairman. … We do not agree on everything, but the one thing we agreed on was that we were going to work together to solve problems.”
Carper returned the praise, citing the movement of cyber bills and others as a testament to his work. “Legislation is moving through this body and through the House this week — it is pretty amazing, — to strengthen our cyber defenses,” Carper said.
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Carper has been in the Washington fish bowl for so long he imagines it to be real and the outside world but a fevered dream, the same is true for many politicians of both parties. “Let’s not fight and be friends” doesn’t work when your “friend” is going for the jugular on almost all issues and makes little attempt to hide it. And that includes the mythical “compromise”, the Republican definition of which remains the Dems do what the Republicans want. Carper’s a fool and there’s no fixing it other than retirement.
Senator Coburn is a great statesman and a patriot. It is sad that he is leaving prematurely. I wish we had 50 of him on the hill.
Senator Carper is not bad for a Democrat. He at least tries to make Washington work and is not a slave to liberal ideology. He is a patriot who loves America despite his sometimes dubious policies.
Both of them have been in Washington too long. Ironic given Coburn supported term limits.
They are both dinosaurs as is the rest of Washington. Always a day late and a trillion dollars short.
Corporate owned politicians are patriots???
“He at least tries to make Washington work and is not a slave to liberal ideology.”
You people crack me up. Project much?
SussexAnon, Coburn is leaving way too soon. One of the things that I have against him is that he doesn’t finish the job. Term limits are an artificial limit. You leave whether you are done or not. He left after only 6 years in the House because he said 3 terms and out. He is leaving the Senate after 10 years instead of 12 for health reasons. This time he had a good excuse. So he has not been in Washington too long, just too long for you because you don’t like how effective he has been advancing populist conservatism.
Andy, you can’t be pro-jobs and anti-business.
We are told by the right constantly that the problem is Washington. So when its a guy you like, its ok because he is “effective” and not a Washington insider? Got it. Washington is full of people who have been there too long. In both parties.
Coburn claimed his own term limits, first honored them, then went back on his word. Ends justify the means, eh?
There is a BIG difference between being “pro-jobs” and a politician owned by big multi-national corporate intrests and shilling for them at the cost of the now collapsing American standard of living.
Nice false equivalence, though.
“Andy, you can’t be pro-jobs and anti-business.”
Sure you can. Business only creates jobs when it has no other choice, and we encourage it with tax policy. And to flip around what you wrote, you can’t be populist and pro-business at the same time.
Government jobs are what’s needed: Roads, bridges, the electric grid, the nation’s sewer systems — all are aging and beyond the age when repairs and replacement should have started.
Conservatives and their failed policies are best left in the broken past, where they belong.
yeah, that Tom Coburn is a great guy. Bet he’s “all fer the vetrins” back home.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/15/1352015/-Will-Sen-Tom-Coburn-single-handedly-block-a-suicide-prevention-program-for-veterans