A Christmas Asshat: Anti-Veteran Republican Tom Coburn

Okay, can we all stop pretending that the GOP cares about Veterans? I mean, sure, they’re all pro-veteran when it’s time to send them off to war, but once those men and women return home, the GOP is all, I’m sorry, and you are?

Don’t believe me? Let’s take a peek at one such Republican Senator, Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma — oh, Oklahoma, that may explain his dumbassery. Anyway, last week, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for Veterans bill passed the House along … wait a minute … it does happen …. It’s a Christmas miracle … an actual bi-partisan vote. And then it went to the Senate, where it was believed the same thing would happen, leaving only the need for President Obama’s signature, but then …

Enter Coburn. He blocked the bill, calling it too expensive, though he has never had a problem sending troops off to war no matter how many billions and billions of dollars that costs., But when these soldiers come home, and need our help and need our support, suddenly Tom Coburn is all about the Benjamins.

But how expensive is the bill? Well, it’s the whopping sum of $22 million; far under any other war expenditures that Tom Coburn is all too happy to slap his signature on.

Coburn, who is apparently called “Dr. No” in the Senate, and just loves the nickname, has missed 238 of 3,133 votes, or 7.6% during his tenure; the median is 2.1% for lifetime records of sitting senators. And in just the last few weeks, he’s missed 60 of 88 votes, putting him in the 99th percentile. He's just about the laziest Senator we have, and for that, once again, we can thank the not-so-good-or-bright people of Oklahoma. Still, if there was to be one vote Coburn missed, why couldn't it have been this one?

See, the suicide rate among veterans is currently about 22 a day. Yes, that’s right; twenty-two men and women who served our country commit suicide every single day; one veteran an hour. And Tom Coburn doesn’t care about them, not one bit because, he says, it’s just too darned expensive to care about human life. The number of veterans who have killed themselves is now more than all military personnel who died in Afghanistan since 2001 or Iraq since 2003 but it’s just too expensive to worry about.

It’s just human life; it’s just men and women who fought for this country and returned home, hoping to be welcomed as the heroes they are, and instead find Tom Coburn saying, “Fuck you.”

I say, “Fuck you, Tom Coburn.” Christmas Asshat.

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Oklahoma? Is The Crazy In The Water?

Timothy Murray, out there in Oklahoma, was running for Congress against Frank Lucas and, well, he lost; badly. He scored 5.2% of the vote while Lucas secured more than eighty percent; yeah, not even close.

So what does Timothy Murray do? He opts to one-up the usual suspects in Oklahoma by appearing to be the Craziest Politician In All The Land in a state where Sally Kern, Scott Esk, Mary Falling, Tim Coburn, James Lankford, and Jim Inhofe all have held office, hold office, or seek to hold office; side note: nearly all of those people I’ve just mentioned have won the coveted ISBL Asshat of the Week Award™.

But Murray goes a step further by announcing that he plans to contest Oklahoma’s recent primary re-election of Lucas because, well, Timothy Murray says Lucas is no longer qualified to hold office because ... Frank Lucas is dead and has been replaced by a robot.

Oh, but he did.

From the campaign website of Timothy Murray:

"I, Timothy Ray Murray, am a human, born in Oklahoma, and obtained and continue to fully meet the requirements to serve as U.S. Representative when honored to so. I will never use a look alike to replace my (The Office’s) message to you or to anyone else, as both the other Republican Challengers have. Rep. Frank Lucas, and a few other Oklahoma and other States’ Congressional Members were depicted as being executed by The World Court on or about Jan. 11, 2011 in Southern Ukraine. On television they were depicted as being executed by the hanging about the neck until death on a white stage and in front of witnesses. Other now current Members of Congress have shared those facts on television also. We know that it is possible to use look alike artificial or manmade replacements, however Rep. Lucas was not eligible to serve as a Congressional Member after that time. The World knows the truth and We must always display and communicate the truth. I will always share public information with the truth when honored to serve as your Representative."

To his credit, Frank Lucas responded like this:

“It does come as kind of a shock to read that you’re not you … Many things have been said about me, said to me during course of my campaigns. This is the first time I’ve ever been accused of being a body double or a robot.”

And Lucas adds that he has never been to Ukraine.

Murray has run for Congress in the past two state elections, and faced Lucas both times, the last time as a Democrat though this time he switched to the GOP where, from the looks of his story, and the looks of the GOP in Oklahoma, the crazies tend to congregate. Maybe this time the loss proved so substantial that he just snapped and  ...

I can't with this; Murray’s letter claiming the body switching of Lucas for a robot, or lookalike, or double, or whatever, has been received by the election’s board, though he has yet to file a formal complaint.

Seriously. What the hell is going on in Oklahoma?

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ISBL Asshat of the Week: Oklahoma Teabagger Scott Esk

You know, when it comes to politics, and anti-LGBT wingnuts, Oklahoma seems to have cornered the market on the crazy.

I mean, they have their Republican — of course — Governor, Mary Fallin, who wanted the state-owned National Guard to strip spousal benefits from straight married couples so she could discriminate against The Gays after DOMA died.

And there’s Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn who, after a devastating tornado struck his home state, needed time to think before sending help because he wanted guarantees on other budgets cuts. Fifty-one people dead — 20 of them children — and Coburn needed a minute.

Add to the mix, Republican Congressman James Lankford who thinks it should be legal to fire a person just for being gay because gay is a choice.

And, let us not forget Queen of the Wingnuts, anti-gay Sally Kern who has blamed The Gays for everything from bad weather to terrorism and the fact that she looks like a 1950s grandmother on Petticoat Junction.

So, really, is it any surprise that Oklahoma is also home to Scott Esk, an aspiring candidate for the Oklahoma House of Representatives who thinks it should be legal to stone homosexuals to death because, well, The Bible.

On his website, Esk makes it very clear that our laws do not come from the government but rather they are written and enacted by God. He is, of course, huge on state’s rights, pro-gun and pro-life — how’s that for an oxymoron, emphasis on moron — pro-family and lower taxes. Well, that’s a Republican, and a ‘Bagger, for you, but it’s his thoughts on The Gays I find the most repellent; go figure.

It all started with Esk having a Facebook chat with someone named Alan Bates, presumably a friend of his. Bates posted a link to an article about Pope Francis and his ‘Who am I to judge gay people?’ statement. Well, Esk hit the fan, as you can see from the screenshot below:

Esk started throwing out the Bible verses that those ALLEGEDLY good Christians use to justify hating homosexuals; he quoted that old standby Leviticus 20:13 so you know where his head is at. Up his ass, but I digress.

Esk first claims that Leviticus 20:13 gives people, and by people I’m sure he means only those ALLEGEDLY good Christians, the right to judge others, and then adds that it is man’s role to put others to death for atrocities like The Gay, and that if we don’t start killing The Gays, well, God will punish those who don’t; you know, she’ll earthquakes to Haiti and hurricanes to New Orleans and the Jersey Shore, Britney Spears to Vegas.

Now, he is just quoting the Bible, right? He doesn’t actually mean The Gays should be killed … right? Well, when Bates asks Scott Esk if he thinks The Gays should actually be put to death, he replies:

“I think we would totally be in the right to do it.”

Now, you can say it’s Facebook and folks say stupid stuff all the time on Facebook; even those folks running for political office. But Esk also told on Oklahoma newspaper, after being asked, again, if he really believed The Gays should be stoned to death, that stoning was done in the Old Testament and that it “came from God” so, yeah, start the stoning.

Then, of course, because as crazy and delusional and fucked up as he is, he realized he’s running for public office and backtracked a bit saying he would never introduce legislation making it legal to stone The Gays he just wants y’all to know that if you do it’s because … God.

Oh, and if his anti-LGBT stance isn’t abhorrent enough — and it should be — let’s also understand that Scott Esk once called 911 because he saw a group of Hispanics outside a shopping mall. They weren’t doing anything, mind you, but, you know, Hispanics equal illegals equal crime equals 911.

Oklahoma, you have some of the wingnuttiest politicians I have ever seen, so do you really think you need to throw Scott Esk into the mix?

Seriously? No wonder he's the ISBL Asshat of the week.

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