So, Two Rural Old White Men Walk Into a Bar …
… and one of them calls the other one a dirty name.
Welcome to the United States Senate where Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn called Utah’s Harry Reid “an asshole.”
That, of course, brought the intellectual discussion level of the United States Senate up about 14 points.
Both of those men live in states where you move quickly if you hear banjo music and they can’t get along? I mean, you’d think they’d at least have taxidermy, bowling alleys, or door to door Bible salesmen in common.
Here’s the bottom line — Look Coburn, we pay Reid an extra fifty bucks a year to be an asshole to you. It’s worth damn every penny.
Thanks to Don A for the heads up.
They can all be assholes upon occasion, but Repukes just seem to be better at it!! In fact, I was just listening to MSNBC to the folks questioning the head gal for Medicare and Medicaid about Obamacare aka ACA and some blowhard from Texas was being … guess what … an asshole!! So I shut the TV off and asked no one in particular: How come Texans have to be such assholes?
Since I live alone, no one could answer that question!! So, I came to TX via The Beauty Salon looking for a proper answer to my question! I know it’s a real poser to you, too!!
Love ya!!!
1Isn’t Harry Reid from Nevada? He is a Mormon, so I can understand getting the states confused.
2Sigh.
An aside. My husband just walked in and said, “Your Medigap payments are going up from $185 a month another $63 a month. I DO have lots of dr. bills. I guess I’m worth it.
And I always wonder what diversion is being created by carryings on in D.C. I was reminded awhile ago that the Trans Pacific Partnership is a rather large item which would do things I don’t want to use the common words for to all of us. Who’s going to benefit from the TPP? Please call Gallego at 202 225 4511 and whine that he oughta NOT side with corporate lawyers but the 98% of the rest of us. No. Don’t whine. Speak firmly. WE DON’T WANT THE TPP IN ITS PRESENT FORM. We want it DISCUSSED, darn it.
3I think I’ll go get another cup of coffee.
I’ll be an asshole to Coburn for free.
4Well, Tom Coburn is an expert on a**holes (sorry momma). After all he helped cover up John Ensign’s affair. He has all those friends aka The Family at the C Street Flop House in DC. He was investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee.
Yep, Tom Coburn sure knows his a**holes. Too bad Harry didn’t have his boxing gloves with him. I’d pay him extra too.
5Hey, Cheryl, if they’re taking volunteers, sign me up too please??
6Marge, I learned years ago that whatever insurance I had in my old age, including Medigap, will increase because — get ready for it — I’m already old and getting older. Thats been the way of it for more years than I can remember and I can remember a lot!
7I don’t mind the fifty dollars a year, but if he wants a 15% tip he will have to kick Coburn in the knee. And if he expects a Christmas bonus, he really needs to make Coburn cry. We have to get our moneys worth out of our paid officials!
8Heard more about this. Coburn got his knickers in a twist cuz Harry actually did his job as Majority Leader. Rethugs believe they are born to be the top dog in anything and everything. I seem to remember that Coburn campaigned the first time around on some salacious and untrue stuff about homosexuals prowling the halls of middle schools and high schools in his state and even accosting students in bathrooms and hassling them to “turn”. I think he even maintained that this stuff was commonplace. As a doctor or even any sentient carbon based life form, he knew this wasn’t true but boy did it play well with the inbreds. Frankly, after Frist and then this one, doctors make lousy politicians.
9The Republican party has the corner on assh***s. I am hard-pressed to think of one who isn’t. They have to be, in order to sell the crap they have to sell in order to keep the assh***s in the base content.
10Senator Reid has responded to Coburn’s comments http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reid-slams-coburn-for-not-sponsoring-bipartisan-legislation-after-a-hole-comment
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) office responded on Tuesday to Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) comment on Monday in which he called Reid an “absolute a–hole.”
“Nothing says ‘comity’ like childish playground name-calling, especially from a senator who has not sponsored a single piece of successful bipartisan legislation during his entire Senate career,” Reid’s spokesman Adam Jentleson told the Hill.
11Stand down beauty shop patrons! When a Repub calls someone an a$$hole they are speaking as experts. They know a$$holes inside out. So to speak.
12You people are hilarious! I feel much better since I was so disappointed by lovely Tom Coburn…I just hate that kind of language…NOT! Dee-lighted to hear that gracious physician sounding like the idiot he is…I will never figure out why he has a good reputation. Rachel reports tonight that he was steadfastly against Sandy aid to the east coast but he pled for help for his own state when it was hit by a blizzard and ice. The breathtaking hypocrisy of the GOTP is so inspiring! We should all be so stubborn and oblivious to the fact that…well, digital recordings!
13Juanita Jean,
Just a minor correction. I am a Nevada resident, and I can safely say on good authority that Harry Reid is the Senior Senator from Nevada, as well as the Senate Majority Leader. I can also tell you that he was a pretty damned good amateur boxer, and he’s smarter than he sounds. He won his last race for re-election against a right-wing nutjob (but I repeat myself) named Sharron Angle. While most of rural Nevada is pretty red, the two most populous counties, Washoe (Reno) and Clark (Las Vegas) are solidly Democratic. So if not entirely blue, the Silver State is at least very dark purple.
14This is going to get better and better as the Senate gathers for PBO’s nominations…Harry is going to show his detractors what an asshole can really do..
15Dave Whitefild, do NOT trust me with details until after my second cup of coffee. Write that down somewhere because I am liable to forget it.
16