Republican Senator Tom Coburn Now Ready for Tax Increases

Here's another Republican ready to sell you out on taxes. Knowing the federal government's bloated budget rarely is ever cut, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is another Republican accepting Obama's tax increases.

George Stephanopoulos writes:


Republican Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told me Sunday on ABC News' "This Week" that he is willing to accept tax rate increases as a component of a fiscal cliff deal, as long as Democrats put "significant entitlement reform" on the table.

"What we ought to be working on is the other 93 percent, because even if you do what [Obama] wants to do on tax rates, you only affect 7 percent of the deficit," Coburn said. "What we have done is spend ourselves into a hole, and we're not going to raise taxes and borrow money and get out of it."

"And so will I accept a tax increase as a part of a deal to actually solve our problems? Yes," he said.

I repeat the prediction that is easy to make here. Coburn and the Republicans will bow down to Obama's feet on tax increases and they will accept the meaningless promises of entitlement reform in future considerations.