Video: Coburn on Senate floor, asks 'What are we coming to?'

Senator Coburn wants Americans to pay attention to this. 9 minutes. Worth watching.




Excerpt from Sen. Coburn:

"We should obstruct this bill. We should stop this bill based on the waste that's in it, the lack of oversight, the lack of metrics in the program, the earmarks that are in it, and the outright greed for the special class in this country, and that special class is the connected class to the politicians. That's who benefits most from this bill. It makes me want to vomit.

You should worry about process in this chamber, because process is the thing that creates transparency, and the American people are going to get to see, if we get an opportunity to offer amendments, what really is in this bill. And so I'll finish my rant by saying, I wonder what the senators before us, fifty or a hundred years ago, would say about what is going on with process in this chamber right now. You got the votes to defeat anything! And yet you don't want to have an amendment that you have to take a vote on, that says this is a priority, or this isn't a priority. To me, I think that lacks honor. I know it lacks courage. And it lacks the dignity that this institution deserves."


h/t: The Corner

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