There are days you are overwhelmed by the stupidity of Republicans in Congress.
And then there are days you get to watch Tom Coburn in action.
Coburn, in some sort of attempt to be cute, proposed an amendment today to the health care bill that passed the Senate HELP committee that requires all Members of Congress to enroll in the public option in the plan should it passed. Sens. Dodd and Kennedy called his bluff, and voted for it, and now it is part of bill.
I'm sure Sen. Coburn thought he was making some neat little point. "If it's good enough for America, then it should be good enough for us!" Well, yeah. Except, Sen. Coburn, you already some pretty nice health care, paid for with public funds, that most of America doesn't get.
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