For doctor, the Senate is a bitter pill

Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn says Congress isn’t good for what ails us

By Mary Jordan

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Tom Coburn is a Southern Baptist deacon, a family man married to a former Miss Oklahoma, a white-coated physician back in Muskogee who has delivered more than 4,000 babies and sees patients free of charge every Monday.

But there’s a darker side of the story, something that Coburn, a Marcus Welby type in ostrich-skin boots, confesses is his less honorable side.

He’s a member of the United States Senate.

“I would fire us all,” Coburn says, blasting Congress, as he does every chance he gets, as a place populated by people who don’t do a whole lot to make the country a better place.

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