Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tom Coburn is not a real doctor
But he plays one in Congress. This masquerade allows to pretend to the high road when he blocks more legislation in the Senate. His hold on the clean food bill is an example of his efforts to let major food producers continue to poison and kill their customers. No real doctor would do that. His latest potentially fatal douchebaggery concerns Haiti.
Last spring, the United States pledged nearly $1.2 billion in emergency aid to Haiti following its tragic earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.Again, no real doctor would hold up aid to a country as badly devastated as Haiti, but ol' Doc Tom Coburn thinks it's a great idea.
Yet the Associated Press (AP) reports today that “not a cent of the $1.15 billion the U.S. promised for rebuilding has arrived” to Haitians who badly the need the aid. This summer, both the House and the Senate passed a bill that would make $917 million available for Haiti reconstruction aid. Yet Congress must also pass an authorization bill that directs exactly how the money will be spent, and thus far, the U.S. Senate has failed to do.
The AP conducted its own investigation of why the Senate has failed to pass the authorization bill, and it discovered that a single senator “pulled it for further study.” After calling dozens of senators’ offices, the AP discovered that the senator holding up the bill is Tom Coburn (R-OK). Coburn spokeswoman Becky Berhardt explained that the reason he is holding up the bill is because he objects to the creation of a senior Haiti coordinator — a position that would cost a paltry $5 million over five years — when the United States currently has an ambassador to the country:
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