Word: coburn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Coburn has anyone to thank for his election to the Senate, it may not be Tom Coburn. A hard-right conservative in hard-right Oklahoma ought not to have too much trouble against a Democratic opponent. But Coburn, an obstetrician and former Congressman, got into trouble with a slightly batty warning about "rampant" lesbianism in rural Oklahoma, as well as a 14-year-old, unproven claim that he once sterilized a patient without her consent. Still, he survived, and it was policies and politics more than personality that saved...
...that we’ve since parted with: Puritanical zealotry. For many a follower of Bush, the only values are “moral values,” a.k.a. religious values, a.k.a. conservative Christian religious values. These voters are likely to side with such newly minted senators as Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who believes that “abortionists” should be punished with the death penalty, and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who insists that single mothers should not be permitted to teach public school. Fanaticism reigns as in a twenty-first century Salem?...
...Coburn said while the process might be difficult, living wills and health care proxies can reduce the grief shared by relatives of debilitated adults...
...Coburn pointed out that, in contrast to a traditional will, neither document is difficult to create...