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Sen. Tom Coburn, after first claiming that the Republicans aren't just looking out for the insurance industry goes on to say this about why the Senate passed the Mikulski breast screening amendment.

Coburn: Because we know a larger percentage of the emotional attraction has to do with those things associated with women. So we pounded our chest and passed the Mikulski bill for preventative care for women and we ignored the preventative requirements of everybody else in this country.

Fail. They passed the Mikulski amendment because the media and the GOP decided to make an issue out of the findings from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that said women didn't need to get screened for breast cancer in their forties, not because anyone's "more emotional" about issues relating to women.

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this country and in the world, and this dick reduces us and our health concerns to something getting in the way of caring for "everyone else" (i.e. red-blooded Repug men). And on top of that the suggestion that people care about women because of sentiment, not because we're human beings too.

What a repig.


I've never seen change without a fire

Samson-'s picture

"ooga, booga, booga!" said sen-a-TOR Co-Burn

and, don't forget, that sentiment you mentioned is seen as a weakness too...

Annaleigh's picture

I hope women in Oklahoma pay attention to what he's saying, so that if he were start practicing gynecology again at some point, they will refuse to make him their doctor.

The last thing a woman needs is an OB/Gyn who has no compassion for her as a woman.


I've never seen change without a fire

Liberalicious's picture

Don't worry your pretty little heads about complicated matters, just go back in the kitchen and bake pies.
And get me a sammich and a beer while you're in there.

That's shades of my father and father-in-law. I remember both of them telling their wives to vote republican but my mother and mother-in-law both told me they voted Democratic because they knew repugs don't care about women. This was over 30 years ago and nothing changed their minds over the years.

My mom voted Conservative for twenty years because my father told her to. She said it was the first step in her personal transformation when one day she said "Screw that" and voted NDP.

Rascalcat's picture

.... who can make the most offensive, ignorant, and divisive comments?

What is wrong with the people of OK. that they elect and support these neanderthals?

I looked up "C Streeter Dickhead" in the dictionary. His picture was there.

Captainapathy's picture

...it seems to me that getting rid of the 'pay per service' model in favor of single payer 'citizen control' health care would negate most of his "points"...

Besides, was he trying to argue that women were less important?

Amitola's picture

is recorded in the Congressional Record - he voted NO on Franken amendment.

And, he apparently he thinks rape is great...because, according to the info on Wiki, his grandmother was born as the result of the rape of his great-grandmother. Ergo, without rape, we'd be sans Tom.


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

savannah43's picture

There's a lesson in there, but I don't want to think about him any more than I absolutely have to.

Amitola's picture

and not in my wildest imagination can I imagine ever being one of his patients.!!


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

savannah43's picture

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ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Let me guess, they're passing these out, right?

http://badexample.mu.nu/archives/fbi.JPG


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

mikerush's picture

This jerk is a doctor, right? He must be a proctologist, because he's such an asshole.

You are what you eat...

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Who's chest did they beat?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

You are not going to believe this. This idiot is an ObGyn.

Liberalicious's picture

Oh okay, then that means he's a......

Liberalicious's picture

a Coulter. Or a Malkin. Or a Bachmann.

Take your pick. Or feel free to add more.

ron's picture

as in turd.

Liberalicious's picture

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a woman.

Your right, I can't believe that.
Wait he's an 'R' correct.

ppcli's picture

My physician wife tells me that it is now exceptionally rare for men to become Ob/Gyn's because they will find it hard to get patients. If you imagine that for years Med schools were turning out bozos like this it is easy to understand how male Ob/Gyns got that reputation.
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The only male Ob/Gyn I know under the age of forty specializes in high-risk premature births. He always refers to himself as "An obstetrician" because of the negative stigma male gynecologists have picked up.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Hard?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Does he anally rape his wife in her sleep and claim he missed?

savannah43's picture

and permanently on the "Do Not Sleep With This Man" list. He is also now on the "Feed This Man Eggs and Pork Every Chance You Get" list.

sharkcellar's picture

Is Coburn standing up not just men but transsexuals too? I never knew he was such a sensitive guy.

Excelsior's picture

He talks as if women weren't a majority of the population. Of course, in his view, they're not.


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

Liberalicious's picture

Republican women think about this statement? Sadly, they're probably okay with it.

savannah43's picture

in the same sentence. Don't they just do as they're told?

Excelsior's picture

I wonder when we're going to do something about all the OTHER cancers that women can contract. Uterine, cervical...they get pretty much ignored in favor of breast cancer, but they're hardly less deadly or widespread. Gee, could it have something to do with the fact that men can actually SEE the effects of breast cancer?


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits

Liberalicious's picture

Gotta cure that testicular cancer first. Priorities.

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

I'm not sure, but I think Christina Applegate's newest show Samantha Who, hasn't been doing too well since her double masectomy.

Of course it doesn't help when in the flashback scenes she's always wearing plunging necklines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3jv-Lt3aLg


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Radically Moderate ad infinitum's picture

...there is simply no way that a message like that could be misinterpreted.


'Talk to the hand'

serge's picture

He's also a stupid, anti-intellectual, sanctimonious, demagogic prick. Unfortunately, I can believe he became a doctor. When my wife was in medical school, she had a very strange classmate who was a fundie through and through. When he was unable to insert an IV under supervision, in front of the patient, fellow students, and the clinical faculty, he fell to his knees and prayed aloud for divine help. My wife was incredulous. I can't imagine having been that patient.

He graduated.

mikerush's picture

What do you call the medical student who graduated last in his class?

You call him/her "Doctor".

savannah43's picture

God doesn't think he's a doctor.

deepspacebeans's picture

the right of insurance companies to "allocate a scarce resource".

I did not realize that a person's well-being and continued existence is a scarce resource.

Winski's picture

"Coburn the Barbarian" ?? Ohh, nope..sorry that's CONAN.... really the same thing though... barbarians - both. This man is truly a troglodyte bottom-feeder......

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

He likes hot buttered buns, do he?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Kate's picture

...we ALL like those!

ysbaddaden's picture
)O(

Can you ward off vampires with hot crossed buns?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

ucsbclassics53's picture

Where's his proof that federal government denies twice as many clients as the insurance companies? That's bullshit...Where are the Democrats calling him out on his lies? Of course, they're Democrats. They're more afraid of looking civil to the eyes of the Republicans and making nice with them...

Geazer's picture

"Douchebag" comes to mind.

Now get back in the kitchen and make my supper.


"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man

Republicans are a plague. Acting in bad faith.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Liberalicious's picture

for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmwYi7R2G7Q

with love,

Eric C.

sexist of Eric Cantor's, but was surprised to see it was Eric Cartman. Either way it fits I guess!


I've never seen change without a fire

ProgressiveTroll's picture

This a-hole has actually sterilized women without their consent. How big of a jackass do you have to be to do that to someone??? The guy belongs in prison, not on the floor of the U.S. Senate thumping his chest about all the "emotional" women.

Tyler Durden's picture

These are the people for whose feelings and interests the Dems are throwing liberals under the bus.

Carry on...

Kreskin's picture

If they move their lips they are lying , you can count on it .

Paul's picture

are so far gone they haven't any idea at all what clueless dicks they are. If these guys had any trace of a functioning conscience, any sliver at all of integrity or even the tiniest inner impulse to basic human decency, they'd be ashamed of ever showing their faces in public again for the shame of the things they've done with their miserable lives. They belong in a zoo.

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