LAT: As Senator, Physician Also Wants His Practice (Coburn, Oklahoma)

[DeepModem Mom]

As Senator, Physician Also Wants His Practice

By Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writer


WASHINGTON — Is it good for the republic that serving in Congress must be treated as a full-time job?

Newly elected Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma thinks not. And Coburn, who is also a physician, has already announced he will challenge a long-standing rule that bars him from continuing to practice medicine once he takes the oath of office Tuesday....

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A significant number of conservative political thinkers agree that the country would benefit from a return to the tradition of the public servant who also remains a private citizen. That, it is argued, is the model handed down by the Founding Fathers....

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Even some conservative groups acknowledged privately that they were dismayed when Coburn won election to the Senate in November, despite such campaign gaffes as advocating that physicians who performed abortions should receive the death penalty and alleging that lesbianism had become so widespread in southeast Oklahoma schools that "they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom."...


http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-coburn3jan03,0,1686785.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[pinerow]

1. I say he should go back to his known profession...

that of an a**hole...but then, that's just me.

[rkc3]

5. How does being an asshole pay? Could you make a living doing that?

[forintegrity]

2. Where does he find the time

if he's TRULY doing his job as a senator and reading all the stuff that he is responsible for making decisions about?

Oh, I forgot...they don't have to read...they just have to vote. God forbid one should know and understand what one is voting on and it's consequences to the American people and the rest of the world!!!

Perhaps, like * he just has a Rove that tells him what to do and say.

How DO these people get into office....another rigged election here?

[Demeter]

3. This Guy Is Loony Toons

Another white, male chauvinist pig with delusions of godhood. Do they know how to raise them in the deep South, or what?

[lumpy]

4. Deep south ?

Well, OK

[Benhurst]

6. Well ... OK. Then put him on a part-time salary and take away

his retirement and health care benefits. That's the way we peons are treated in BushAmerica.

Oklahoma doesn't need two senators, anyway. Every day he's away from the floor of the Senate, the better.

[Ilsa]

9. Amen. I'd love to see that! I wonder how Frist would

react to such a request?

[Straight Shooter]

7. "First do no harm."

Yeah, right, he forgot about that part.

[Pegleg Thd]

8. Those of us living in

Muskogee, Ok. know that coburnt-ass is a p*%s poor dr. he was even worse a a rep a few years back. Other Drs in this town think he is a scumbag!!!

[gratuitous]

10. So let him resign

Apparently, Mr. Coburn didn't understand the rules when he decided to run for the Senate, and now that he knows what's what, I think we should allow him to resign gracefully, if "graceful" could ever be appended to any action he ever took.

[Rainscents]

11. Computer with no paper trail...

voted the ass-hole in the office! Go figure!!! If we continue to have computer... Democrate will never win in south again!!! Even in the swing states!!! We must get back to old way of voting and hand counting!

[bobthedrummer]

12. He's a RW eugenicist that sterilized young women w/o their consent.

:puke::grr: