Dealing With Senator Nutjob (aka Coburn)

1:09 pm EST September 15th, 2005 | Republicans | 9 Comments

Max Blumenthal profiles Oklahoma’s shame.

On April 7, five months prior to this hearing, Michael Schwartz, Coburn’s chief of staff, told me, “Tom doesn’t know anything about this judiciary stuff, so I’m feeding him piles and piles of memos every day.” Though Schwartz didn’t specify the nature of his memos to Coburn, I assumed they were made up of primers on legal jargon and history, not word games, puzzles or other such brainteasers.

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9 Responses to “Dealing With Senator Nutjob (aka Coburn)”

  1. buma says:
    September 15, 2005 at 1:09 pm

    What’s a six-letter Oklahoma word for ‘worthless’? Starts with C-O.

  2. PSU94 says:
    September 15, 2005 at 4:09 pm

    I always thought “Oklahoma’s shame” was their performance against USC in the Orange Bowl last season.

  3. JD says:
    September 15, 2005 at 4:09 pm

    This is a surprise, why ? Isn’t that what staffers do? I get it, since he is a Republican, he is too dumb to do it without staffers. I bet none of the Democrat staffers are feeding information to their Senators. None.

  4. elrod says:
    September 15, 2005 at 5:09 pm

    Coburn is a doctor by trade. I know we like politicians to be non-lawyers sometimes. But on the Judiciary Committee it’s a pretty good plan to have lawyers present. And if they aren’t lawyers, they should be pretty well-versed on the law nonetheless. Coburn was elected because he was an extremist Republican who complained about lesbians in the Oklahoma middle schools and suggested abortion doctors should get the death penalty (even though he actually performed abortions once) and Brad Carson, his opponent, never distinguished himself in any real way. With Inhofe and Coburn, Oklahoma has the worst Senate representation possible. I didn’t agree with Nickles on much, but at least he was an honorable and sensible guy. And David Boren was an excellent Senator.

  5. Quaker in a Basement says:
    September 15, 2005 at 5:09 pm

    JD, let me break it down for you:

    A member of the Senator’s staff says: “He doesn’t know anything about judiciary stuff.”

    Nonetheless, he sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee!

    Wouldn’t the qualifications for handing out lifetime appointments to the nation’s highest courts include knowing “judiciary stuff”?

  6. SaveFarris says:
    September 16, 2005 at 8:09 am

    I’ll take Oklahoma’s shame over Massachusett’s shame any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

  7. Mike says:
    September 16, 2005 at 9:09 am

    PSU94 wrote:

    “I always thought  Oklahoma s shame was their performance against USC in the Orange Bowl last season.”

    ROFLMAO!

    Ditto their performance against LSU the year before that.

    And their performance against TCU two weeks ago.

  8. buma says:
    September 16, 2005 at 10:09 am

    I grew up in Coburn’s home town and left for quite a few good reasons. The mindset of a majority of the people there has changed so much I hardly recognize it anymore. I think this is due mostly to 24/7 FoxGOP propaganda and loads of conservative talk radio. The people hear exacly one side of every issue and no one is curious enough to tune in anything else — after all, Rush has it all figured out. Inhofe and Coburn are what you get from all the spoonfeeding.

  9. PSU94 says:
    September 16, 2005 at 11:09 am

    Thanks, Mike. Good to see someone around here with a sense of humor.

    Although, the first three letters of my screen name are where i went to school, so i probably shouldn’t be making fun of any other college football teams the way we’ve been the last couple years.