Posted on 12/11/2005 11:09:15 PM PST by paulat
Dr. Coburn, I Presume
Monday, December 12, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST
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Dr. Coburn, who delivered about 65 babies a year while he served in the House during the 1990s, wanted to continue serving his patients after he won a Senate seat last year. He noted that the House Ethics Committee had allowed him to earn just enough money as a physician to cover his medical malpractice premiums and other expenses.
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The most curious "no" vote came from Barbara Boxer of California.
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She is the proud author of a new political novel called "A Time to Run."
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The heroine is a liberal Democratic senator from California named Ellen Fischer who bravely challenges the nomination of a Supreme Court nominee who she fears would oppose Roe v. Wade.
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"knowing she'd spend the rest of her life (in public service)--that she'd been put here on earth to save its endangered children." The reviews have not been kind. W.C. Varones, a frequent reviewer for Amazon, flatly declared: "This isn't Barbara Boxer's book. It was written by (collaborator) Mary-Rose Hayes, whose prior works are a string of cheesy romance novels that went straight to out-of-print." When it comes to sex scenes the novel's prose may not be lifeless, but it is overripe: "Greg's naked body was long and elegant, his embrace enveloped her utterly, and they meshed with ease and grace. He smelled good too, faintly and astringently of aftershave. He was clinging to her as if he'd never let her go, it was all so easy and right."
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Sen. Coburn says the way Congress is structured discourages people with real-world experience in fields other than law from giving up their career and serving.
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(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Sorry about all the "snips," but I was limited in excerpting, and I wanted to get the full force of the article.
That is why most politicians in DC are ho's!!
Clearly delivering a baby means he assisted someone in not making the Dim choice.
Not curious to me. I'm sure Frau Boxer would have absolutely no objections if this doctor had been an abortionist.
Excellent point! I had not thought of that.
Boxer's book, "A Time To Run" is timely and could well be about her, General Murtha, Dean, or Kerry.
She really put her name on thie tripe?
The woman is sick with a large measure of stupid mixed in.
The only way that Boxer would vote to keep a doctor around is if he performed an abortion (preferably a partial-birth one) on the Senate floor.
That does not compute in this universe
How does someone save endangered children by promoting their in utero slaughter?
I don't think anyone has asked her that.
Certainly it would never occur to the MSM to ask
Um, Dr. Frist practices medicine while maintaining his position as Majority Leader. He just doesn't insist on being paid for it. And it's worth thinking about who would want their obstetrician to be a part-timer who's just doing it for the money.
Um...what part of the following sentence did you not understand???:
He noted that the House Ethics Committee had allowed him to earn just enough money as a physician to cover his medical malpractice premiums and other expenses.
Also...Bill Frist is a very, very independently wealthy man. The point of the article is that Boxer is trying to shut out non-lawyers who aren't wealthy.
I am afraid I dont understand, Is she saying its ok to make money writing book, but not practicing medicine??
Although I doubt her book will make much money.
I guess Dr. Coburn doesn't have the $200k laying around every year to pay the malpractice insurance.
It doesn't seem like he's trying to turn a profit, just break even, hardly "doing it for the money"
Funny that we never hear about the DC ho's doing inside trading and yet a doctor going real work gets kicked around.
It does seem that she has grown even sicker since her poor daughter had to divorce HRC's unfaithful brother. Liberalism doesn't even work "all in the family" style. Still people in CA adore her "spunk," as the fictitious liberal Lou Grant once said to the fictitious liberal Mary Richards.
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