COBURN MUST RESIGN!

[Teatownclown]

Whoa....Rachel rips Coburn good tonight....I will try to post it over the weekend....CoBurn Notice.

A deacon and a physician turns from the light into the darkness....

Stay tuned!

[Teatownclown]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/43030078#43030078

Putting the pants on Ensign by Tommy Coburn.....

[Teatownclown]

TulsaWhirled spun a patty cake cover story on this today....

Senator Tom Coburn about allegations Ensign helped Doug Hampton find work as a political consultant: "John got trapped doing something really stupid and then made a lot of other mistakes afterward. Judgment gets impaired by arrogance, and that's what's going on here." (Oh, the irony)

[Teatownclown]

John Edwards charged in felony indictment
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110603/ap_on_re_us/us_edwards_investigation

I guess if you are a sitting Senator, you can wire yourself around and out of similar charges...

[Conan71]

The only similarity is an affair.  Coburn did not solicit campaign contributions to cover up Ensign's affair, nor did he participate in laundering any money to circumvent campaign contribution laws.  The hush money came from Ensign's wealthy parents and was not couched as campaign money.  Essentially, this story on Edwards doesn't belong under the Coburn topic.

Where Edwards messed up was he should have simply had Hunter create a trust and Baron and Mellon could have funded that trust.  Or Hunter could have done video or consulting work for Baron and Mellon reported it as taxable income and it never would have run afoul of campaign laws and fraud.  

Edwards was a complete egotistical moron.  He sure had me snowed when I first started reading about the guy prior to the '04 elections.

"Prosecutors said the spending was illegal because Edwards should have reported it on public campaign finance filings and because it exceed the $2,300 limit per person for campaign contributions.

The indictment was the culmination of a federal investigation begun by the FBI more than two years ago. The probe scoured virtually every corner of Edwards' political career. That included his political action committees, a nonprofit and a so-called 527 independent political group. It even examined whether he did anything improper during his time in the U.S. Senate, which ended seven years ago.

But the centerpiece of the investigation has long been the hundreds of thousands of dollars privately provided by two wealthy Edwards supporters — his former campaign finance chairman Fred Baron and Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, the 100-year-old widow of banking heir Paul Mellon. That money eventually went to keep mistress Rielle Hunter and her out-of-wedlock baby in hiding in 2007 and 2008, during the apex of the Democratic nomination campaign.

The indictment cited $725,000 in payments made by Mellon and another $200,000 made by Baron. It said the money was used to pay for Hunter's living and medical expenses and for chartered airfare, luxury hotels and nearly $60,000 in rent for a house in Santa Barbara, Calif., to keep her hidden from the public. Other than Edwards, no one was named in the indictment but the indictment's descriptions of others make clear who they are.

Mellon sent her money through her decorator. The indictment said she listed items of furniture in the memo lines of checks — written in amounts of $10,000-$200,000 for "chairs," "antique Charleston table," and "book case" — to hide the true purpose. It said Baron gave an envelope with about $1,000 cash and a note that said, "Old Chinese saying: use cash, not credit cards!""

[Teatownclown]

Edwards is a megalomaniac.... Coburn? Just a multi millionare moocher and manipulator. You are correct Coco.

[Teatownclown]

If you get the chance watch the 10 pm Larry O'Donnell interview with Sen. Tom tonight on MSNBC's Last Word. Coburn has taken charge of moving the debt debate to a higher level closing the loophole on ethanol subsidization. It was good. Coburn dissed Norquist.   Sen. Coburn is belittling the influence of Grover Norquist and says he's "old news" and doesn't care about what he says.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/06/14/coburn-on-grover-norquist-old-news-doesnt-matter-what-he-says/

[Conan71]

Norquist has been smoking too many corn husks.  If he feels that strongly about it, he can run for office.  Last I checked, he's not an elected official, just a demagogue.

" But Norquist's definition of taxes is broad. For instance, he says eliminating the multi-billion dollar subsidy for ethanol is a tax increase, "

Uh, really Grover?  How many ethanol producers are feeding his organization?  Like everyone else, I'm sure he's got his price.