I am from Oklahoma and I can say with all honesty, I am proud to have Tom Coburn as a Senator from our state. He has been a thorn in the side of the Congressional leadership from the time he first went to Washington in 1994. He clashed with Newt Gingrich from day one and I will take Coburn’s side every time. He didn’t go to Washington to win friends and influence people. He first got involved in politics because he was tired of the endless regulations our government was putting on his chosen profession. He promised to help reduce wasteful government spending while there and that is exactly what he is doing.

As for his delivering babies and practicing medicine, he has plainly stated that he was a doctor first and he was not going to be in Washington the rest of his life. He wants to keep his medical license and his skills, in order to be able to practice medicine when he leaves office.

The mother of all Senate corruption scandals in the last 100 years or so may well have been California Democrat Diane Feinstein’s shoveling a barrage of DoD contracts at her husband’s several companies (over $1.5 billion over 5 years!), as detailed here.

And this when she also served as “the arbiter of Senate rules on ethics.”

Maybe the democrats thought a Congressman could only aide in the production of babies to needy mothers, not on the other end of the gestation period.
Proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

…Coburn – an obstetrician-turned-politician currently locked in a close race that could determine the control of the Senate – was sued in 1990 by a woman claiming that he had sterilized her against her will. The incident took place when the accuser was being treated for an ectopic pregnancy, a serious condition that occurs when an embryo begins growing in a fallopian tube. Usually treated by removing the embryo and permanently tying off the affected tube, Coburn is alleged to have unnecessarily tied off both tubes, preventing any future pregnancies.

No written permission for this sterilization exists, though Coburn claims that the accuser, 20 years old at the time, gave him oral consent. Medicaid reimbursed Coburn for the costs of both the necessary treatment and the sterilization even though Medicaid laws only allow for payment of sterilizations in women over 21; the candidate has admitted to reporting only the ectopic pregnancy in order obtain to order obtain to full reimbursement.

I guess his senate peers are on his case because it shows them up as the phonies they are.

The panel gave Coburn the same advice when Republicans controlled the Senate, and both Boxer and Cornyn have signed letters telling him to stop delivering babies.