Coburn: American People Sold “A Bill Of Goods”
For Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, Obamacare fight was a sideshow
By Chris Casteel Newsok.com
WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Coburn has waged many a lonely fight here, some of which alienated and even angered his fellow Republicans
But he was unsympathetic — to put it mildly — with the uphill battle by a small group of his GOP colleagues to defund Obamacare through a must-pass spending bill; in fact, this time, he was among the alienated and angry.
From the beginning, Coburn, of Muskogee, dismissed the tactics of Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, as futile and ultimately dishonest.
And shortly after Cruz ended a 21-hour talkathon Wednesday, Coburn went to the Senate floor to say the “thousands and thousands” of people calling his offices in support of Cruz had been sold “a bill of goods.”