COMMON SENSE FROM COBURN

Most will never hear this.  Fact is, what needs to be hear at the 8min mark, for sure won't be heard! 

We have massive beaurocratic duplication - listen to it.  For instance, inside FEMA, a department of HS, there are 17 different agencies at work for disaster relief.  CRAZY!

At 10:30min Senator John Kerry jumps in with flattery and then says we have to have more "revenue" income....TAXES people. Really, his comment was a waste of oxygen and Coburn comes back in for reclaiming his time.

Here is somewhat his closure:  "There has been a failure of leadership...and when we (Repubs) didn't do it either."  And further:

"There are absolutely no cuts in what either Senator Reid or Speaker Boehner proposed in discretionary spending. The spending will rise $832 billion over the next 10 years in the discretionary accounts. Only in Washington is that a cut. Quite frankly, I am willing to work with my colleagues. I have been out there. I said we have to move and eliminate some of these loopholes; we have to reform the Tax Code. I am willing to take heat from my side on that"

He calls for a sacrifice of the American people.  Immediate hurt and cuts.  On the down-side less, but a stronger economy either way.

What is unfortunate is Dr. Tom Coburn will not be running in 2016 because he promised he wouldn't be.  He is a true statesman (as he just mentioned most in Congress are not) and he gets laughed at.  John Kerry further jumps in, clearly wanting his partisan desires.  Coburn says that these partisan things are not working.

What was not called for is a Budget Amendment.  I believe this is the only tidbit that was not mentioned.  Now, I realize, at this moment, we probably can't get a BBA, but we need to be shooting for it.