Sen. Coburn Better Get That "Brown" Off His Nose...

[twyacht]

What a suck-up. More proof that they ALL need to go.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31374.html

Harry Reid is getting support from an unlikely corner of the Senate: one of the most conservative members of the Republican Conference, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.

Coburn, in a speech at the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce, said the GOP shouldn’t focus on attacking Reid as majority leader – after it was revealed in a new book that Reid said in 2008 that Obama could be president because he had no “Negro dialect” and was “light-skinned.” Reid has apologized for the remarks.

"Washington plays a game of gotcha," Coburn said, according to the Tulsa World. "It pains me that Republicans are saying Harry Reid ought to step down. When you point a finger, you have four fingers pointing back at you. There is not anybody in Washington who has not said something that could be judged inappropriate and wrong."

So far, RNC Chairman Michael Steele, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn and Minority Whip Jon Kyl all have called on Reid to step aside as majority leader, saying it would be consistent with the fate of former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who in 2002 was forced to give up his bid to become majority leader after he praised the 1948 presidential campaign of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, who supported segregation.

Abandoning his majority leader position would imperil Reid’s uphill bid for a fifth term in Nevada – and create a major distraction for the Democratic agenda on Capitol Hill. Reid’s aides say the senator has no intention of stepping down, and Democrats have closed ranks behind Reid.

It remains to be seen whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will also call on Reid to step down. The two men — long-time senators who served together on the Appropriations Committee — have a fairly close relationship and are forced to work together on a daily basis simply to keep the Senate operating.

If McConnell doesn’t call on Reid to step aside, it could help the senator and his allies weather the storm brewing over his comments. But if he does call on Reid to step down, it could hurt their relationship – particularly since Reid has no intention of relinquishing his position

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The players in the "game" have to be changed.

Quit sucking up for a Ben Nelson deal, before the 2010 election.

[fightingquaker13]

TW
You raise two distinct questions and conflate them into one.
Question the first. What's the right thing to do? There isn't one of us who've posted here more than a few times who hasn't said something we wish we hadn't and which was out of character in tone or content. The right thing, is to look at the context and let a bad moment go by.
Question the second. What's the politically expedient thing to do? In this case its to pile on Reid to force him out office. It might actually work, although the vote of all six black guys living in Nv. have yet to sway an election. Thing is, its a gut check. I think Coburn is doing the right thing morally (Lott should have been treated the same). I think Reid will have a hard enough time winning reecltion and if I was his advisor, I'd tell tell his opponent not to touch this with a ten foot pole. Its  out there, let Reid hang imsef. What I would tell all politicians, particularly the GOP (who seems to have forgotten this these days) is to run on what you are for, not what you are against.
FQ13

[twyacht]

Well FQ, the fly in the ointment was this has been known for almost 14 months, the liberal media buried it, Reid knew he said it back during the election, and now comes out and spills his apology.

Healthcare and the ram and cram is more important than the double standard the Left loves. Slick Willy told Joe Biden, during the election that BHO would be getting them coffee a few years ago,....(It's in the book also....)......Didn't see that on NBC Nightly News.

Coburn needs to remember how Trent Lott was run out on a rail, for giving a 90+ year old a birthday party snippet. Your correct, it's really all B.S. on that one.  Al Sharpton needs to STFU, (if this was spoken by a Rep., think of the press and mouth disease Jesse Jackson, etc,.. would have been screaming).

The right thing to do, as a minority member, is to let the other party shoot themselves in the foot, and don't be an apologetic closet RINO, trying to appease to some poll, or demographic. He's walking the fence. You call them on a flagrant double standard, and stick to your principles,... Every time Reps. play "nice" with Dems they get stabbed in the back, ie, Bush letting Teddy write the education bill, which he later bashed Bush on for its failure...

Reid needs to go down in flames to send a message. Democrats are hard headed that way, ie Tom Daschle,....

But so it goes, they ALL suck...

[fightingquaker13]

Tw
I can't say I disagree with much in your post. I do want to hit my last point one more time, because I do think its importent. That is, run on what you are for, not what you are against. Because while that might get you elected once, it won't keep you in office. W. won on being not Clinton. He managed to (narrowley) win reelection because the Dems put up their version of Mitt Rommney a "a man of all reasons (with perfect hair)" in Kerry, and W still had to run against Bin Laden, not what he was for. When he said he was going to spend his political capital on privatizing Social Security, he got exactly nowhere, because nobody voted for that. They voted against the buffoon the other party put up. Same is true of BO. You all know why I voted for him in 2008, but my odds of voting for him in 2012 are right up there with my odds of selling all my guns and donating the proceeds to the Brady Foundation, which will happen the day after I convert to Islam and illegally migrate to Mexico. The reason is I voted against something as most Americans do in most elections. Give us something to vote FOR, party be damned, and you will see enduring support for systemic change. This rant wasn't aimed at you TW, just something I wanted to say.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

TW
You raise two distinct questions and conflate them into one.
Question the first. What's the right thing to do? There isn't one of us who've posted here more than a few times who hasn't said something we wish we hadn't and which was out of character in tone or content. The right thing, is to look at the context and let a bad moment go by.
Question the second. What's the politically expedient thing to do? In this case its to pile on Reid to force him out office. It might actually work, although the vote of all six black guys living in Nv. have yet to sway an election. Thing is, its a gut check. I think Coburn is doing the right thing morally (Lott should have been treated the same). I think Reid will have a hard enough time winning reecltion and if I was his advisor, I'd tell tell his opponent not to touch this with a ten foot pole. Its  out there, let Reid hang imsef. What I would tell all politicians, particularly the GOP (who seems to have forgotten this these days) is to run on what you are for, not what you are against.
FQ13

But he wasn't and that sets the precedent that should be applied to to Reid.
The Dems were OK with the Saxbe precedent about Hillary not being legally eligible to become Sec. of State.
 Liberals  are hypocrites, oppose BO on anything and you are a racist, but I remember when Jesse Jackson made his comment about "the Hymies in Jew York" and that just, went away.

And YOU keep making excuses for them.

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