C Street Coburn bails

[Guns Guns Guns]

Deficit Puritan Tom Coburn has abandoned the Gang of Six....

..."Coburn was pressing for sharper cuts to Social Security than had been previously agreed to..."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin.../05/17/AFdoV05G_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage

Coburn is notoriously implicated in the John Ensign sex scandal.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. -- Ensign's housemate at the C Street residence for lawmakers operated by the secretive Christian cult known as the Family -- acted as Ensign's confessor, and his go-between in discussions with the Hampton family for a cash settlement of the matter.</SPAN>

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/568405/'c_street'_sen._ensign_resigns_as_ethics_committee_closes_in/

 

[Schadenfreude]

Deficit Puritan Tom Coburn has abandoned the Gang of Six....

..."Coburn was pressing for sharper cuts to Social Security than had been previously agreed to..."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin.../05/17/AFdoV05G_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage

Coburn is notoriously implicated in the John Ensign sex scandal.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. -- Ensign's housemate at the C Street residence for lawmakers operated by the secretive Christian cult known as the Family -- acted as Ensign's confessor, and his go-between in discussions with the Hampton family for a cash settlement of the matter.</SPAN>

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/568405/'c_street'_sen._ensign_resigns_as_ethics_committee_closes_in/

i doubt that any more will come of it because the politicos want it all to go away - if one gets indicted then more may be indicted regardless of party and that would be 'bad'

but we can ope