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| Source:Alabama Policy Institute- CBS News's Leslie Stahl, interviewing U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (Republican, Oklahoma) |
"Tom Coburn, the former senator from Oklahoma and forthcoming keynote speaker at API’s 2016 Annual Mobile Dinner (for information, visit www.AnnualMobileDinner.com), discusses his life and career in his farewell interview, given shortly before he retired from Congress, on “60 Minutes.”
This is an abridged version of the television broadcast, which originally aired on CBS on Sunday, December 21, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. (CST)."
From the Alabama Policy Institute
I don't agree with Senator Tom Coburn on most if not all social issues. He's what's called a Christian-Conservative and I'm a Liberal across the board, but if there were 535 Tom Coburn's in Congress (House and Senate) Congress's approval rating would be in the 60s, 70s, maybe 80s. I'm not talking so much about policy, but as it relates to his personal character.
The term American Patriot gets thrown out a lot (especially on the Right) but the term was invented for the Tom Coburn's of the world, because he's a man whose only in Washington and serving in Congress to represent his beloved State of Oklahoma and to serve his country. Not to get reelected or elected to higher office (which is what your average member of Congress does today) but to do what he believes is best for his state and country, regardless of what political price he may have to pay.
And again if there were more Tom Coburn's in Congress, Congress's approval rating would be a helluva higher than your average spam caller or accident attorney (which it currently trails) and Americans would respect their politicians. Perhaps not even look at them as politicians, but as public servants, which Senator Coburn always was.
