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Coburn: The Deficit Is Worse Than Abortion
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who is both a strong pro-lifer and a vociferous deficit hawk, said yesterday that the budget is in fact the more pressing issue — and he has a rather novel rationale.
"The greatest moral issue of our time isn't abortion, it's robbing our next generation of opportunity," Coburn said at the National Press Club. "You're going to save a child from being aborted so they can be born into a debtor's prison?"
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Rightwing heads can now be heard exploding all across the U.S.
November 2, 2007 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he's saying that he's a pro-life Democrat.
November 2, 2007 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can hardly believe it. A republican coming this close to the truth is something I have ceased to believe can happen. Now if we can get him to think about the pot laws and the absurdity of filling up prisons. Another truth that has escaped reps.
November 2, 2007 1:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
This tactic should fool no one. The Republicans said NOTHING for six years about unconstrained spending.
They mention it now only because the Democrats control congress.
November 2, 2007 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
And on the same day, no less, when Sen McCain insists that torture really is torture, and also that torturing prisoners is counterproductive.
November 2, 2007 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
No one wants to bring a child into this world who faces a poor quality of life.
The question is when does a fertilized egg become a person. The pro-choice answer seems to be when the fetus has developed enough to sustain independent existence or a personality and the RTL answer seems to be when the parents had sex and conception ocurred.
November 2, 2007 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brian - Coburn is actually an exception to the general Republican hypocrisy on spending -- he offered a whole bunch of anti-spending amendments even when the R's were in charge. So he's actually ideologically consistent in that regard -- and he irritates lots of R's in Congress because of this.
November 2, 2007 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hear that shuffling sound? That's the rest of the Repugs distancing themselves from a guy who applies a more conventional form of logic to his position.
November 2, 2007 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Back in the 80's and before, R's were all about fiscal responsibility. But since the Neo-cons took over its been the attitude of "We'll fight tooth and nail for the life of the multi-cellular organism in your womb so we can have as many future workers as possible to pay down our debt." I still don't understand how some R's can try to destroy Roe vs. Wade and then veto SCHIP. But its good to know that one right wing nut-bag is getting his priorities straight.
November 2, 2007 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
And borrowing money to pay for an abortion? Don't even get me started ...
November 2, 2007 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Being from the state this nut case is supposed to represent, take ANYTHING he says with a large grain of salt.
He's still opposed to all tax increases, so therefore, what he says is pure bullshit. This guy an Inhofe are the embarrassment of all dems in Oklahoma.
We call him wacky Tom here in Oklahoma.
November 2, 2007 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
He didn't say the deficit was the Dem's fault, as Republicans always did in the past, but that would be hard to claim after the GOP ran things into the ground for 10 years. Deficit-enlarging tax cuts for the truly greedy and endless war are the legacy of his Republican party. Can't dodge that.
I'm surprised he hasn't said that there would be no deficit if all the abortions in the past 30 years had been prevented, since all of those not aborted would be taxpayers. A similar argument was made by several Republicans about illegal immigrants. Tom DeLay says that we wouldn't need Mexicans to do our crummy jobs if we didn't let American women get abortions. As if all of those American kids would have grown up to be farm workers and maids.
November 2, 2007 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I’m just waiting for his next statement which goes something like this...
We can get rid of the deficit by just cutting taxes but the Dems want to increase your taxes so you see Dems hate children.
jk Tom, they say even a blind squirrel finds a nut if he looks hard enough. I guess if you talk enough you will eventually say something that make sense.
November 2, 2007 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
"You're going to save a child from being aborted so they can be born into a debtor's prison?"
I actually find that quote quite compelling.
November 2, 2007 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tom Coburn is an interesting guy for someone who ought to be expressing his views at the top of his lungs on a street corner wearing a sandwich board.
November 2, 2007 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Free-thinker! Libertine!
November 2, 2007 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's the Wealth Transfer administration, stupid!
November 3, 2007 3:51 AM | Reply | Permalink