"The omnibus legislation drew unanimous committee approval. But Senator Coburn objected to quick floor passage, demanding that the five-year, $3.7 billion cost be offset with immediate budget cuts. The senator’s argument rings hollow in the face of veterans’ suffering and the world of deficit budgeting brought on by his party’s tax cuts and zealous war investments."

Thirteen major military and veterans groups have joined forces to try to force one senator — Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — to release a hold that he has placed on a major veterans benefits bill.Coburn has been identified by Senate aides as the lawmaker preventing consideration of S 1963, the Veterans’ Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act of 2009, by using an informal but legal practice of putting a hold on a bill.Coburn’s staff did not respond to questions, but Senate aides said the first-term senator has expressed concern about creating new and unfunded benefits and wants the opportunity to amend the measure.One of Coburn’s suggestions is to divert money from unspent economic and job stimulus programs to cover costs of new benefits for veterans and their families, according to sources who have discussed the issue with Coburn’s staff.

I am left speechless by Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) response to a sobbing woman, begging for help because her insurance company will not pay for a feeding tube for her brain-injured husband.

A recent letter to the editor about a Tom Coburn Town Hall meeting: "I attended a town hall meeting with Sen. Tom Coburn last week. Before the meeting, a man approached me and debated health care with me. I then heard him call someone, describe how I was dressed and where I was seated and recommend I not be called on. I wasn't."

Sen. Tom 'Babaloo' Coburn seems to have great difficulty telling Cuba from Puerto Rico, but then, he can't tell sh*t from shinola either.

The fallout from an extramarital affair between Ensign and Cindy Hampton, a campaign staffer, is threatening to ensnare other Republican leaders as they try to marshal opposition to the Obama administration.

This morning’s stimulus roundup: * Just hours after Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., put out his report, “A Second Opinion on the Stimulus,” detailing 100 “questionable” stimulus projects, the Obama administration fired back, issuing “A Second Look at The Second Opinion.” The administration argues that Coburn’s report is “riddled with falsehoods, outdated information, and misleading assertions.”

Since January, the NRA has enjoyed tremendous message success along with legislative success. The Democratic White House and Congress barely whisper dissent. Meanwhile, political extremists, convicted felons, and other shooters are more than well armed and striking. But it's the NRA. They're omnipotent gods. They've constructed convincing myths that keep them growing. Now, even chaos fueled by hate and well-aimed bullets -- bordering on domestic terrorism -- seems insufficient to rally the principled opposition and the less militant. Unless you count baby steps.

"On June 20, 2007, the House of Representatives voted on H R 923, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. The Senate version was to be voted on the next day amid expectations that it would breeze through the higher chamber without any opposition. Ooops. Seems we’d forgotten all about Tom Coburn, who courageously threw his own body under the wheels of progress, citing budgetary reasons. The cost of the Till bill would cost less than what the war funding bill allocates for 'broadcasting activities in the Middle East.'"

Those wacky Republican Senators from Oklahoma… If it's not James "Ice-Age" Inhofe raving like a crazy man on a street corner about climate change being a big liberal hoax, it's his colleague, Dr. Tom Coburn, trying to divert attention from Republican corruption with childish legislative games.