TAXPAYER HERO

"When I worked in the House Republican leadership and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was a member of the House, I didn't like his style of politics. He seemed unreasonable. He held up legislation. He made us work weekends. He led revolts against the leadership time and time again. He was inconvenient. Now that he is a member of the Senate and I am back in the private sector, paying taxes and worrying about the debt, my view of Coburn has changed. I love the guy.

"Coburn takes his job seriously. He makes his staff actually read the bills. He has a simple rule: If a politician proposes a new law, he demands that the politician also examine what went wrong with the old law. No new laws until we get rid of the old law that hasn't worked. . . . But as everybody knows, it is much easier to start a government program than it is to end a government program. Coburn estimates that the federal government wastes $300 billion a year on programs that don't work.

"...Coburn's jihad against wasteful spending should become one of the top causes for Republicans this fall. . . . John McCain can be expected to bring Coburn's anti-waste attitude to the White House when he becomes president. They would make a pretty powerful team. Coburn identifies the pork and McCain vetoes it. For taxpayers who are worried that their tax dollars are being wasted on stupid spending programs that do nothing except give government bureaucrats jobs, Tom Coburn should be seen as a hero."

- John Feehery, The Hill, 7/29/08

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Maybe someone should consider Coburn as a VP candidate?

Nah...it'll never happen. He makes too much sense.