Sen Coburn

http://www.capitolnewsconnection.org/node/14443

A nice change of pace news item that encourages me quite a bit. Senator (Dr) Tom Coburn (R-OK) has not been one of my favorite people... far from it. But, his comments made during Obama's Health Care Summit caused a sudden respect for a guy from the far-right who's willing to actually talk solutions rather than partisan politics.

The cited article above offers more proof that, just maybe, Coburn is a breakthrough kind of Republican willing to seriously talk about the issues. Difference of opinion and perspective is a very healthy component in a viable democracy, a desirable objective.

The submerging of Republican agenda engineered by Bush/Cheney/Rove beneath the waves of partisan dogmatism and now carried to newer heights with Steele/McConnell/Boehner is not sustainable... at least in my opinion. Dr Coburn's comments hint of better things to come.

UPDATE: 4/8/10
Jeff Sharlet, the Author of The Brethren and whose opinion I respect, has declared the response to Coburn's remark typical of the hopeful, wishful thinking coming out of liberals when a conservative essentially throws out a bone. Jeff's precise term is "goes all gooey" and, I guess, that's where I went.

According to Sharlet, "Coburn was for a long time a man of honest and candid craziness. He breaks with the GOP quite a bit. He's basically a biblical libertarian."