Anyone unemployed in Oklahoma can thank your Senator, Republican Dr. Tom Coburn, for suddenly taking some self righteous stand blocking a stopgap bill to extend jobless benefits for the millions of unemployed in his perceived Christian state and nation. (Where we do unto others…)
(For those not living in Oklahoma, Senator Coburn was the holier than thou Evangelical politician who felt that offering a bribe to try and erase his Christian cohort, Nevada Republican John Ensign’s affair with his chief of staffs wife would keep the adulterous adventure from becoming public fodder. Senator Coburn who can recite the New Testament forwards and backwards, (never really reading it for its truth, but reciting it for those who prefer fear and doom), decided that the sanctity of marriage was not that important if one of his fellow C Street buds was abusing it, but was totally a priority to keep the gays from partaking in it.)
Once again the Senator is using the old, “it’s for the children”, excuse in prolonging the financial misery of the unemployed in this country by saying that he could not vote for this extension because “what we are doing is stealing future opportunity from our children.” The good Senator had no reservations when he did not question the amount of money he and the Republican majority voted in providing Halliburton billions of dollars for weapons, material, equipment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even when the military complained about the quality of the Halliburton supplies Senator Coburn was not concerned about the ‘future of the children’ as he agreed to support the “no bid” contracts submitted by the ex boss of Halliburton “Dickie” torture them hard Cheney. Senator Coburn had no qualms about the ‘future of the children’ when he agreed to the Goldman-Sachs bailout offered by his Republican President, Bush, nor has Senator Coburn stepped forward to promote a consumer based agency to stop the financial abuses by the lending institutions and the banks. (He is a fan of the Regan and then Bush supported “trickle down tax theory”, so I guess the children of the wealthy will have a perfect future.)
I am curious about the future of the children if they are living in a home where mom or dad have no income and have to decide on paying the rent, food or medical care. While the Senator has none of these problems to face due to his employment, I wonder while he is celebrating the Easter season if the thought of the children of others will even enter his Christian conscience?
The Senator from Oklahoma is now the second, ‘its for the children’ elected official of the Republican party to not acknowledge the plight of the unemployed. His sidekick the ex baseball player, Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, stood on a holier than thou platform last month in denying the continuation of employment benefits and holding up another stop gap measure. He was able to create a two day furlough for about 2000 Transportation Department employees. (During his tirade against those unemployed Americans who he (Bunning) described as lazy for wanting unemployment in the first place, the Senator did not miss one day of his earnings.)
Compassion, understanding, leadership, caring, does the Senator from Oklahoma have any of those words floating anywhere around in his Evangelical Christian conscience? Awareness, involvement, concern, vote the bum out, do any of the electorate in Oklahoma have any of those words in their gut?
Your Senator has now created a mess for our country. Is his lack of empathy, his hypocritical behavior, and his baseless remarks of any concern to all you Oklahomans? What he says and does and how he votes is not okie-doekie!
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