Did Calvin Rock hit a nerve or what? His description of the book “The Family” prompted a full-throated nuke job by Sen. Tom Coburn, who was only mentioned in passing. Coburn’s the only one playing crass partisan politics here while defending his theocratic allies.
Senator, in the now-infamous words of one of your fellow Rethuglicans, “You lie.”
Coburn has never broken his silence on his association with the Christian “Super Friends” and their totalitarianism of Christ’s teachings. In fact, he was sent by the Family to Lebanon to set up Christian prayer cells within their government, using money from the House and Senate Armed Services committees.
Travelling on the taxpayer dime to promote his religion? Nothing theocratic about that.
His fellow Oklahoma embarrassment, birther Sen. Jim Inhofe, was sent by their leader (and Coburn’s own Jeremiah Wright) Doug Coe to Africa to promote the “political philosophy of Jesus” — rule by an iron fist — also with taxpayer money.
Conspiracy theories? Coburn said nothing while fearful knuckle-dragging conservatives prevented their kids from being turned into socialist zombies by hearing Obama’s stay in school speech. He calls himself Obama’s friend. With friends like him ...
The Tulsa World reported that when his Broken Arrow town hall venue was moved to a larger location, his worshipful followers sprinted to get seats. If they could but touch the hem of his self-righteous robes, they’d be freed from socialism. One Neanderthal in Jenks expressed his frustration that they couldn’t control the voters in other states and grunted “When will they respect our God, our guns and our freedom?” The crowd cheered. The Okie Messiah smiled.
I guess there was no “secret theocratic agenda” when Coburn endorsed an unconstitutional Ten Commandments idol in Stigler in late 2004 where the crowd boasted they’d hang dissenters from the trees. He proudly spoke to an event that made Taliban-ruled Kabul look like Disneyland.
The Phoenix called Coburn a “folk hero.” Maybe to ignorant Okies. To the rest of us he’s another source of shame.
Larry Parsons
Warner
