Posted on 08/12/2008 5:35:05 AM PDT by ricks_place
The Senate Ethics Committee has told Republican Sen. Tom Coburn that he’ll be engaged in a “serious violation of Senate rules” if he continues delivering babies back home in Oklahoma.
Coburn’s response: So what?
“On my own time, I’m taking care of women who have a need, and I’m going to continue to deliver babies,” Coburn, an obstetrician, told Politico. “I’m not going to stop.”
Coburn would not say specifically whether he has actually delivered a baby since the June 22 deadline set by the Ethics Committee, but he made it clear that he could deliver one any day now — and thereby force the Ethics Committee to put up or shut up.
Coburn — an irascible Republican known as Dr. No — has been fighting with the Ethics Committee for years over whether he can continue to practice medicine.
As a member of the House, Coburn delivered approximately 400 babies under an arrangement with the House ethics committee that allowed him to provide medical services as long as the fees he collected allowed him to only break even on his costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Democrats will keep healthcare in perpetual crisis until it is nationalized. The healthcare patronage jobs will make the Democrat polititians wealthy beyond their wildess dreams or until bankrupcy. Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac have already experienced the Democrat patronage job scam making Democrat biggies fabulously wealth and the institutions seriously broke.
Coburn should tell them:
“If you want to have this fight in public, let’s see who ends up looking like the idiot.”
More on point, the effing hypocrites in the Senate ARE allowed to take million dollar advances for letting someone else write a book for them with their name on it. Yeah, and Couburn can’t deliver babies for free? How assinine.
The Democrats in the Senate are all about control, no matter how much they hurt those whom they claim to be most vulnerable and those whom they claim to support.
How dare he help bring life into the world!
Yeah...this is definately the worst thing a Senator could be doing with his free time. Way worse than some shady land deals a certain Senate Majority Leader. I say we burn him with the witches. /s
Seriously - why couldn’t Lindsey Graham, or Saxby Chambliss be doing something to get in trouble? .... I mean I think the other day I may have overheard Lindsey giving some free legal advice....is this enough to get the ethics committee to look at him.
Spot on.
So much for the Democraps’ COMPASSION, HUMANITY and CONCERN for “da peeple.”
“Oh my, Coburn is a REPUBLICAN (and one of the better ones) and his patients are probably REPUBLICANS and, shudder, the KID might grow up to be a REPUBLICAN. Can’t have that! We only want FUTURE WELFARE DEMOCRATS born here.”
We’re doomed.
With every new story like this, I’m reminded of the ancient Greek quotation of “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad” (as in insane — have to define the term as an occasional new gummint skoll product stumbles through here).
And the insane to which I refer are not so much the idiot statists now running this place (into the ground) but the moron VOTERS who continue to place them near the levers of power.
But — but — HORRORS — the kid might grow up to be a conservative REPUBLICAN. Can’t allow that.
Of course, if Coburn were running an abortion clinic, that would be totally acceptable.
And yet Senators don’t have to quit their positions to campaign full time on the taxpayer’s dime for higher office.
What specific senate rule(s) is/are he violating?
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Apparently so.
It DOES explain a lot of things, though, doesn’t it?
Yeah, right. If he were sucking the brains out of a baby ala partial birth abortions Obama would hire him as a speech writer.
The Libs are in control of the Senate. Since none of the Libs in the Senate do anything that is productive or that benefits society in their own free time (or when the Senate is in session), they're jealous of Coburn and want him to stop delivering babies because it makes them look bad.....
the US Senate has an “Ethics Committee”?
that is just toooo funny.
I wonder if he would be allowed to ABORT babies for free?
He should ask for permission to do both, and watch their heads explode trying to figure out a response.
(note: I ony suggest ASKING for permission to do it, not to actually perform any baby killing)
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