Tom Coburn: 'Good Thing I Can't Pack a Gun on the Senate Floor'
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said Thursday that he was only joking when he suggested that he might shoot lawmakers over U.S. financial problems.
At a town hall event in Langley, Oklahoma Wednesday, Coburn pushed back on criticism of President Barack Obama and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, placing the blame for tough economic times on "a class of career elitists" and "cowards."
"It's just a good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor," he said, according to The Tulsa World.
Coburn's remarks came less than a month after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who had suffered a gunshot wound to the head in January, briefly returned to Congress.
Conservative radio host Pat Campbell gave Coburn a chance to defend his remarks Thursday.
"You think that's going to come back to haunt you?" Campbell asked.
"Oh, I don't know," Coburn said. "I don't care. The problems are so big. What I was trying to do was be funny. They know that."
"They'll make anything they want out of anything I say and I, quite frankly, don't care. The problems that are in front of us are big enough that we ought to be going after them. And the fact that we don't go after them, the fact that you got a non-solution to the problem coming out of Washington -- you know, how many of your listeners actually think something's going to happen that actually is going to cut the debt limit -- cut our expenses?"
Why are all these reactionaries so frightened that they feel they need a big old firearm to feel save. He could always challenge a senator to a boxing match. On second thought, this would be contrary to the philosophy of the fake "tough guy" which is to do violence if and only if there is no chance of of physical injury to himself.
Like he's not a part of the problem .. it's "Washington" ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
...we have an American senator actively & unapologetically trafficking in eliminationist rhetoric.
Too bad he is not a Democrat, or the media would go totally Anthony Weiner on his psycho ass & run him out of Washington D.C. never to be heard of again.
But since he is a Republican talking this shit, Obama will probably invite him to have a beer with him & Jon Stewart will invite him to appear on TDS.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
did he ever take this oath?
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/c...
"I do solemnly swear that I will Support & Defend the Constitution of the United States,
against All Enemies foreign and Domestic"
domestic terrorism..
comes to mind.
Praise jeebus, and pass the bullets
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
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