Tom Coburn says 'get over' his gun talk

[jpak]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61709.html

A few hours after Sen. Tom Coburn’s spokesman said the Oklahoma Republican would apologize for saying “it’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor” comment, Coburn said at a town hall meeting that anyone offended should “get over it.”

“Political correctness is B.S.,” Coburn said Thursday night, according to an Associated Press report from the Oklahoma City meeting. “Tell ?em to get over it. It was a joke and everybody laughed. That’s all I have to say about it.”

Indeed, audio of the town hall meeting posted at the website of the Tulsa World, which first reported the remarks, shows the audience erupting in laughter after the “pack a gun” comment. Coburn’s spokesman, John Hart, said he was “amplifying his fatigue with the culture of Washington.”

Prior to the town hall, Coburn faced a blistering attack from liberal blogs for his gun remark, as well as statements that the nation’s health care was better prior to Medicare and that President Barack Obama, “as an African-American male,” received “tremendous advantage” from government programs.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. Ask a certain Congresswoman if threats to shoot elected officials are funny.

What an absolute jackass.

[iverglas]

2. perhaps he would be even happier

if his audiences erupted in laughter every time he opened his mouth.

Worth a try? ;)

[tridim]

3. Get over it, potential dead Liberals.

Man, that's a fucking laugh riot.

Fuck you Coburn.

[maxsolomon]

4. he has no idea why it was offensive. he cannot understand.

republicans put people with cunning into power, but never emotionally intelligent people.

it's likely he'll never suffer a moment of self-doubt until the time he is finally hoist by his own petard, then he'll blame others for victimizing him.

WTFU, OK. if that's possible.

[gateley]

5. "...never emotionally intelligent people." Well said! nt

[jwirr]

6. That was not just gun talk it was a backward threat.

[rrneck]

7. Tom needs a ladder

so he can climb up on it and kiss my ass.

[SteveM]

8. Coburn's the worst kind of punk-ass chump...

He won't apologize for anything, he like's cock-strutting (where he's protected), and when someone calls his hand he yells: "P.C.! P.C.!"

What a chicken-shit.

[Kennah]

9. Dr. Josef Mengele still scarier than Dr. Tom Coburn ...

... but the gap is narrowing.