Sen.
Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who developed a close friendship
with President Obama when they served together in the Senate, is
threatening to have the entire health care bill read on the Senate
floor.
Senior Senate Democratic aides had heard Coburn was considering having
potentially thousands of pages read aloud in effort to stall passage.
“If he did this it would be even outrageous for a guy who’s become
known as Dr. No around here,” one of them told POLITICO.
Coburn’s office confirmed that he is indeed thinking about having the
bill read.
“That's a possibility,” Coburn spokesman John Hart said. “He wants to
make sure everyone has a chance to read the bill.”
Coburn, who has a reputation for using procedural rules to block and
delay legislation, has been an outspoken critic of the president’s
health care overhaul. He recently told the New York Times: “My mission
is to frame this health care debate in terms of the fiscal ruin of this
country. … I have instructed my staff to clear my schedule for every
minute that bill is on the floor.”
Apparently
Coburn didn't get the memo that things like Senate rules (which allow
such readings) don't apply when the Dems want to ram something through
that the country doesn't want/need. Seems to me that forcing a reading
of the entire bill is EXACTLY what the writers of that Senate rule were
thinking so many years ago - that Senators could force a cautious
consideration of something that was being railroaded through. Good for
Senator No - we could use more like him.
Posted By: Bitter Clinger
| November 06, 2009 at 07:00 PM
One
of the tactics of Mao was to discredit and ridicule his opponents
creating funny names for them. This self absorbed communist was
correct. Name calling can destroy an opponent because it attached the
bad name to a real name.
In this case, the "jorunalist" that wrote this article calls Mr. Coburn
"Dr. No" . So before you read the news about him, you already think of
him in a negative way.
But of course, we the people, live in a reality, not in a marxist
utopia created by ligh marxists. We know Mr. Coburn is a patriot. We
don't need help with his name.
