Posts tagged “Tom Coburn”
Asshole Extraordinaire
What kind of man do you have to be to hold up aid to disaster victims, how calcified does your conscience have to be? The asshole extraordinaire holding up $1.15 billion in aid that was pledged by the U.S. to Haiti earthquake victims last March is Republican senator Tom Coburn (probably best known for his [...]
Greenspan Throws A Curveball
Over the last week, various Republicans in Congress have distinguished themselves by arguing that the Bush tax cuts desperately need to be extended — without any effort to pay for them — because that’s what the economy oh-so-desperately needs. Forget job creation, forget any form of stimulus; the magic potion is tax cuts. And they [...]
Coburn On Taxes: An Instant Classic
Yesterday, I wrote about Senator Tom Coburn saying that “if we wanted to do new tax cuts, I think we ought to cut spending to pay for them” but it really wasn’t necessary to cut spending to pay for extending Bush‘s tax cuts. Since his original statement wasn’t entirely clear, yesterday on C-SPAN, he returned [...]
Delusionality And Mendacity: Republicans On The Bush Tax Cuts
Republicans of every stripe continue to spout utterly incoherent gobbledygook on the subject of George “Tax Cuts” Bush‘s tax cuts, the budget deficit and the national debt. Carly Fiorina — who used to be CEO of HP, was fired for incompetence, and decided that she was now qualified to be a Republican candidate for the [...]
Republican Senators Block Unemployment Benefits
Isn’t it too soon for reruns of this movie? Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) promised that he’d be the next Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) if he had to be. And last night, he made good on his threat. Coburn is blocking unanimous consent on extension of unemployment benefits, just as Bunning did a few weeks ago. [...]
Coming Into The Straight
So the Senate healthcare reform bill has met its first major cloture vote, and passed. (The vote was to cut off debate on the manager’s amendment, which incorporates the compromises worked out to satisfy one and all. By Senate rules, Republicans can — and, therefore, will — force debate to continue for a maximum of [...]
Obstructionism Incarnate
Here’s how the party of no effing way plans to implement its healthcare reform obstruction strategy of “delay, define and derail” right at the very start of the Senate debate on the bill: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says he will make sure the entire healthcare bill is read out loud on the Senate floor before [...]
“Oneness Of All Things” Awards
Funny how I wrote about The Oneness of All Things yesterday, and right away there was a slew of stories about Republicans demonstrating their proficiency at appreciating The Oneness of All Things. So today we bring you three performances that seem to deserve awards. First up, the most famous OB-GYN in the land today: On [...]
With The Full Knowledge Of His Peers
One aspect of the John Ensign sexual-harassment-and-adultery scandal that I find most interesting is the light it sheds on the way the Republican party operates, on the real values of the so-called family-values party. (Also, how come no one is talking about this as sexual harassment? When you repeatedly engage in sex with an employee [...]