A Crass Political Stunt?

In December I wrote about how I was warming up to Oklahoma. Admittedly, it has been a slow process. With the spring thaw, dodging the OK sized potholes can dampen one’s affection for this state. The thing is, I couldn’t love this state more and it’s all because of one man.

This week, our senator from Oklahoma, Senator Tom Coburn, introduced an amendment to Obamacare which made a statement and the entire country should listen. Senator Coburn sponsored amendment S.AMDT.3556 to H.R. 4872, the health care bill. Senator Coburn drew a line in the sand and put the remaining 99 senators on record as to what type of country we will have in the future.

The purpose of S.AMDT.3556 is listed as follows:

To reduce the cost of providing federally funded prescription drugs by eliminating fraudulent payments and prohibiting coverage of Viagra for child molesters and rapists and for drugs intended to induce abortion.

The first part would have cracked down on Medicaid fraud. This may not sound like much of a big deal, but Coburn estimates Medicaid fraud costs us, the taxpayers, approximately $650 million annually. I find it hard to argue with saving that kind of money.

The last part is probably the most contentious. I do think it is safe to say that most Americans would prefer their tax dollars not be spent on abortion.

The middle part of the amendment is the area which turns my stomach. The thought that my tax dollars would be used to purchase ED drugs for child molesters and rapist boggles my mind. Maybe I am naïve but I would have never even considered this to be a possibility in the America in which I grew up.
And yet, here we are in 2010. We have the basic assault to our freedoms which is the Obamacare bill itself. On top of that, we have the real potential of our tax dollars being used to purchase ED drugs for pedophiles and rapists.

If you are still with me, I am sure you are thinking that our elected officials did the right thing. After they got over the initial revulsion of the thought of impotent child molesters and women haters being pumped up to commit more crimes with tax payer dollars, they promptly and decisively sent a message to the perverts of America that there is no way decent Americans are going to fund their evil.

Guess again.

The Coburn amendment was tabled by a vote of 57-42. Fifty seven senators feel it is perfectly appropriate for sexual criminals to continue unabated and, in fact, aided by the use of taxpayer funding.

At the risk of being silenced by the thought police in this country, I will go on record as stating that these fifty seven senators are despicable examples of human beings. That being said, you, the voters, sent these people to Washington to represent you and your values. Is one of your values curing erectile dysfunction in sexual predators? It is time to send a message to Washington and vote the scum out. I only hope it is not too late.

Oh, and if you are curious who the sexual criminal enablers are, here is the list. Please, please America, do everything that is legally within your power to remove these people from office as soon as possible.


Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)