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Payback's A Bitch
I'll bet that some Senators wish they'd been a little more reasonable about Senator Coburn's medical practice. It was surely just one more reason to be unwilling to play ball (though I suspect that in fact it probably wouldn't matter).
When Coburn disparaged an earmark for Seattle -- $500,000 for a sculpture garden -- Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was scandalized: ``We are not going to watch the senator pick out one project and make it into a whipping boy.'' She invoked the code of comity: ``I hope we do not go down the road deciding we know better than home state senators about the merits of the projects they bring to us.'' And she warned of Armageddon: ``I tell my colleagues, if we start cutting funding for individual projects, your project may be next.'' But Coburn, who does not do earmarks, thinks Armageddon sounds like fun.
I hope he has lots of fun.
Posted by Rand Simberg at February 12, 2006 06:48 PM
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Ya think we can clone 100 Tom Coburn's?
Posted by ken anthony at February 13, 2006 01:36 AM
We are not going to watch the senator pick out one project and make it into a whipping boy
Then pick 'em all out. Whip them all. With extreme force.
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at February 13, 2006 01:48 AM
Someone email Diogenes, we have found a politician with real integrity.
Posted by Mike Puckett at February 13, 2006 09:26 AM
Whip it, whip it good!
Maybe it's time to send good Senator Murray a letter asking her to detail the "merits" of the sculpture garden project. If "Armageddon" means kill all the earmarks and let God sort 'em out, it's alright by me.
Posted by Bob at February 13, 2006 11:00 AM
So you think we can get the Federal Government to give us some money to put up a statue in Coburns honor? Maybe they can use imminent domain to grab some land and put the statue in the park. How bout a Coburn Anti-Pork water park and we can build it near a highway and stick the funding request in the Transportation Bill. Lets get a federally funded committee to look into this.
Posted by Stu at February 13, 2006 11:03 AM
As Prof. Walter Williams has been preaching for as long as I can remember: (Paraphrase)
Our politicians can only enrich one person by first confiscating that money from another. As long as we continue to re-elect this type of politician we will get the government we deserve.
Posted by JJS at February 13, 2006 01:16 PM
Having temporarily had Ted Stevens as my Senator, I'm liking Tom Coburn more and more.
Posted by McGehee at February 14, 2006 10:21 AM
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