Senate Ethics Committee Investigating Senator Tom Coburn For Birthing Babies Free Of Charge
In his spare time when he’s not busting government waste in the Senate Tom Coburn volunteers his services as a doctor free of charge to birth babies. And that’s got him in trouble with the Senate Ethics Committee:
The Senate Ethics Committee has told Republican Sen. Tom Coburn that he’ll be engaged in a “serious violation of Senate rules” if he continues delivering babies back home in Oklahoma.
Coburn’s response: So what?
“On my own time, I’m taking care of women who have a need, and I’m going to continue to deliver babies,” Coburn, an obstetrician, told Politico. “I’m not going to stop.”
Coburn would not say specifically whether he has actually delivered a baby since the June 22 deadline set by the Ethics Committee, but he made it clear that he could deliver one any day now — and thereby force the Ethics Committee to put up or shut up.
Meanwhile Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is under indictment, North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad accepted thousands of dollars in mortgage discounts in exchange for moving along legislation worth billions to his lender and Obama has apparently been caught porking up legislation for his fund raisers.
But hey, let’s make sure Tom Coburn doesn’t deliver any more babies for free.
