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Monday, July 13, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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As Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) railed away at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, we were reminded of Coburn’s role in the recent sex scandal involving Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.).
To recap, Coburn, an obstetrician and gynecologist who lives with Ensign in Washington, has said he counseled his colleague to end an extramarital relationship with a staffer. But the husband of the former mistress has claimed that Coburn also advised Ensign to pay millions of dollars to the unhappy couple so they could move away from Ensign’s hometown of Las Vegas.
The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed several petitions with the Senate Ethics Committee and the Department of Justice to probe the legality of severance payments that Ensign allegedly made. But Coburn has said that he won’t cooperate in any investigations, claiming that his counseling derived from his capacity as a medical doctor, which prevents him from having to testify in any probe that might follow.
The Washington Post’s Al Kamen today picked up on Coburn’s line of argument to offer the most clever line yet to emerge from the scandal. “If a guy can’t trust his OB-GYN,” Kamen writes, “who can he trust?”
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Comment posted July 13, 2009 @ 10:54 pm
“I immediately thought about silicone breast implants and the legal wrangling and the class-action suits off that. And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. That is what the ultimate science shows…In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.”
“[L]esbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?”
“The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power… That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That's a gay agenda.”
And, here I thought multiple partners was a decidedly Republican agenda item lately, and who knew gays were having abortions? If there's something stupid or insane sounding to say, Coburn's your man.
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