Did I hear Dylan Ratigan tell Tom Coburn we need more like you or was I hearing things?

[NNN0LHI]

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[Ruby the Liberal]

1. I wasn't listening, but he did tease by saying Coburn was against Grover Norquist

so wouldn't surprise me if he did.

Dude is Libertarian IIRC.

[Warpy]

2. Coburn is generally a nitwit but he's bucking Norquist on his debt deal

and calling for raising taxes as well as slashing the Pentagon budget.

We do need more Republicans to wake the hell up and realize that Norquist is a raving nutcase who has been wrong about everything.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Have you seen the highlights of Coburn's plan?

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/07/18/general-us-debt-showdown-coburn_8571368.html

Associated Press
Coburn proposes $9 trillion deficit cut measure
By ANDREW TAYLOR , 07.18.11, 05:14 PM EDT


WASHINGTON -- One of the Senate's staunchest budget-cutters unveiled Monday a massive plan to cut the nation's deficit by $9 trillion over the coming decade.

The plan by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is laced with politically perilous proposals like raising to 70 the age at which people can claim their full Social Security benefits. It would cut farm subsidies, Medicare, student aid, housing subsidies for the poor, and funding for community development grants. Coburn even takes on the powerful veterans' lobby by proposing that some veterans pay more for medical care and prescription drugs. snip

Cuts to the Medicare program for the elderly and the Medicaid health plan for the poor and disabled would total $2.6 trillion over 10 years, far more than proposed by the fiscal commission or House Republicans. He proposes raising the Medicare retirement age to 67 by 2027 and then gradually increasing it until the retirement age hits 69 in 2080. It would also raise Medicare premiums for doctor visits so that premiums pay 35 percent of such costs instead of the 25 percent currently covered.

[Warpy]

7. Yes, he's generally a nitwit and his plan shows it

and I'd very much like to see him do manual labor at his age before he tells the rest of us to wait to 70 to retire. However, he is bucking Norquist by cutting the Pentagon and raising taxes.

If he gets his greedy paws off Social Security he might have something. It's not much but it beats the hell out of anything the Norquist robots have offered.

[housewolf]

4. Dylan Ratigan is not a Progressive

after watching him for the past couple of years, it seems to me that he's more of a Libertarian that anything. He didn't like GWB or what he did, and he doesn't like what the lefty Congress critters are doing either, and just as often is anti-Republican as well. Libertarian is the only thing I can think of.

[Zen Democrat]

5. I think he's just referring to Coburn's face down with Grover Norquist.

Coburn doesn't go for the "pledge" -- and I think that was the gist of Ratigan's sentiments.

[TheKentuckian]

6. Ratigan is weird with his love of Coburn but says the same thing about Bernie and Sherod Brown.

A Congress of Coburns, Sanders, and Browns would be better than any thing we've seen in at least a couple of decades.

Doc Coburn is a phony fuckwit and a crook but that is pretty damn good for a TeaPubliKlan, I reckon. A real credit to his knuckle dragging Klan (and I do mean Klan).