Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) on Thursday brushed off criticism he received from RedState.com editor Erick Erickson, who expressed disappointment in the Oklahoma Republican for opposing efforts by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rand Paul (R-KY) to block any continuing resolution that funds Obamacare and risk a government shutdown.
“Oh, you can’t respond to the bloggers,” Cobrun said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” adding that “unless you agree with them 100 percent of the time all the time, you don’t pass muster.”
“So, you know, that’s a blogger on RedState that I obviously can’t please. I’m not sure how to best characterize — nobody’s ever put me in anybody’s camp other than my own,” he said. “And so what we’re trying to do, nobody disagrees with the goal, they just disagree with the tactics.”
Erickson wrote Wednesday that Coburn “toes the leadership line,” but said he hopes the lawmaker will “change in the twilight of his Senate career.” Coburn said last week that the senators pushing to defund Obamacare were being “dishonest” with their base and engaging in “a whole bunch of hype.”
This post has been updated.
