Tag: tom coburn

Yesterday's tragic shooting at the Navy Yard needs to serve as a stark reminder of a fight that happened last winter in Senate.

If anything great should be remembered from this past election it should be the fact that Grover Norquist has become much less significant. The number of Republicans breaking with the Norquist pledge to not raise taxes keeps rising, with the latest one coming out today: Open criticism of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax […]

Every single American should be outraged over this: One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis has found. The lawmakers bought and sold […]

I think we are seeing a pattern emerge showing that the right is starting to get worried about the increased violent and slanderous rhetoric from some of their extremes. Let me give a couple of examples pointing to this. First we have Tom Coburn this weekend. Coburn has never been considered what one would call […]

And we can thank Tom Coburn for this: Extended unemployment benefits will temporarily expire for thousands of Americans on Monday because the Senate went on its spring recess without approving a one-month deadline extension. The extension, which had bipartisan support, would have cost about $10 billion, but a lone Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn, said no […]

This man shouldn’t be allowed to call himself American let alone Senator: Speaking Friday on the Senate floor about a procedural hold that is blocking passage of S. 1963, the Veterans’ Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, said “it would be truly disgraceful” if the bill didn’t clear the Senate by […]

So John Ensign decided to pay his booty call $25,000? That sure sounds like prostitution, but may have other legal implications instead: Hampton said Ensign paid the woman $25,000 in severance when she stopped working for the senator. If true, Ensign faces a possible felony violation of campaign finance law if he paid the severance […]

A letter was written by Doug Hampton to FOX’s Megyn Kelly last week. Hampton is the former aide to Senator John Ensign, and also the husband of the woman Ensign was having the affair with. Jed has the entire letter posted here, but something really interesting is this part: The unethical behavior and immoral choice […]

Yesterday on Meet The Press, Senator Tom Coburn made a very interesting assertion. He said that with his medical training he could detect if someone was lying by their “body language”. Having previous experience in the medical field and knowing quite a bit of doctors, this skill must be something unique to the school he […]