GOP Sen Coburn: My party is guilty of Spending Kids Futures Away

MR. RUSSERT: One last question, and this is an interesting quote I read at a speech you gave to the University of College Republicans. "Republican politicians are the same as Democratic politicians in they like to spend money. Democrats want to raise taxes to pay for it, and Republicans allow the next generation to pay for it."

SEN. COBURN: That's right.

MR. RUSSERT: You believe that?

SEN. COBURN: I do. I believe the main reason to have Republicans is to limit the government, and if they're not going to do that, the advantage goes away. And I believe that overall, in the last--since 1997 in this country, politicians of both sides, of both ilks have spent our kids' future away.

MR. RUSSERT: There's been a Republican press president, a Republican House, a Republican Senate.

SEN. COBURN: Absolutely.

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They need to drop the habit, reinstitute tax rates fom the Clinton era and start pulling out of Iraq immediately and quickly. That would ease the problem immensely.

It's utter crap what Coburn is saying about Democrats, BUT, the GOP has already started their branding campaign going into 2006 -- vis a vis "tax and spend" Democrats.