Senator Tom Coburn made a big fuss (stink) the other day when he threatened to read the entire health care reform bill on the floor of the Senate, a process that likely would have taken 34 hours of valuable debate time on health care reform for little if any purpose other than to show that Congress can draft really large bills when major political and social issues are finally addressed. Naturally he believed his PR stunt would have the full support of all his GOP Senate colleagues. Well, it seems he guessed wrong. Even some Republicans are getting tired of looking like obstructionist idiots all the time, I guess:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is backing off his threat to require that the Senate read the 2,074-page health care bill because some GOP colleagues aren’t supporting the effort.
Well, whoever those Republican Senators are who have told Coburn to take his reading project and stuff it, my hats off to you. Republican politicians have gotten enough bad publicity lately thanks to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Maybe they just decided enough was enough. Then again, considering Senate Democrats and their continuing obeisance and subservience to whatever Joe Lieberman wants, they are hardly the only ones making our politics look like a third rate Vaudeville dog act.
Even some Republicans are getting tired of looking like obstructionist idiots all the time, I guess:
The only reason they got tired of the act was because it would have cut into their Thanksgiving vacation. That’s all. Nothing more. Besides, according to what I read, Coburn or another Republican would have had to be present while the reading was going on, otherwise the Democrats could quickly put a stop to it. So it’s another case of Coburn being an idiot. Not really that Republicans are sick of his act. Heck, he probably takes heat off the rest of that clown show.
“Maybe they just decided enough was enough.”
Maybe. But one swallow does not make a spring. I’ll have to see a lot more of this before I believe anything has changed.
Good Point, Coburn is one nasty puppy:
I kind of predicted this on Tuesday:
As a veteran, I say Tom Coburn can eat a dick. Support the troops, my ass!