Sen. Tom Coburn on the Dems Health Care Reform Bill

After a brief Christmas hiatus, it is time to get back to the political grind. Unless you've been stuck on Oklahoma's Interstate 44, you probably heard about the Democrats' efforts to play Scrooge and pass their Health Care Reform bill in the U.S. Senate.

But what you may have missed yesterday was Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn's pithy summary of the Democrats' plans in the Real Clear Politics op-ed below:

This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt.

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The piece really speaks for itself. My only reaction is that, of late, it is rare for a Senator to be so correct and prescient at the same time.


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