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For doctor, the Senate is a bitter pill

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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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Muskogee, OK, US Senate, John Ensign, Capitol Hill (Washington, DC)

Sat Oct 31, 2009

The Clarion-Ledger

What will Pickering do with campaign coffer funds?

When the Louisiana Democratic chairman recently asked federal election authorities to rule on how $5,000 could be funneled from a dormant campaign PAC of ex-U.S Rep.

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Related Topix: US Politics, David Vitter, US News, US Senate, Republican, Louisiana, US House of Representatives, Trent Lott, Mississippi Government, Mississippi

Fri Oct 09, 2009

The Clarion-Ledger

As lawmakers await census, partisanship rears head

Little of the same redistricting tension that surrounded the 2000 population census exists now as the Legislature awaits figures of the 2010 census.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mississippi Government, Mississippi, US Supreme Court

Thu Oct 08, 2009

Laurel Leader-Call

Rhodes Scholar Shad White speaks to Jones Honors College Students

Rhodes Scholar Shad White recently shared his success stories with students from the Jones County Junior College Charles Pickering Honors Institute.

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Related Topix: US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Oxfordshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom,

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Plastic.com

Will Senator Ensign Finally Crash And Burn?

By now most people know that John Ensign, Republican Senator from Nevada, was getting it on with his best friend's wife.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John Ensign, US House of Representatives, Tom Coburn, Mark Sanford, US Governors, Washington, DC

Meridian Star

Louisiana Dem complaint is a political manifesto

The Louisiana Democratic Party chairman's Federal Election Commission complaint alleging that former Republican U.S. Rep.

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Related Topix: US Politics, David Vitter, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Sex Scandal, Opinion

Tue Oct 06, 2009

The Clarion-Ledger

La. Dems question Pickering contribution

Louisiana Democrats have accused GOP Sen. David Vitter of accepting campaign money illegally funneled to him by a former Mississippi congressman through a political action committee of that state's governor.

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Related Topix: US Politics, David Vitter, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Haley Barbour, US Governors

Tue Sep 22, 2009

Daily Kos

State of the Nation

It's an electoral buffet tonight on the Wrap: a few new polls , a couple of pieces of campaign information, and might David Vitter be in trouble ? RACE FOR THE WH: New National Polls Show Obama Stability Two new national polls were released today, and they seem to indicate that, after some tumult, the polling numbers for President Obama have ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, David Paterson, US Governors, Rudy Giuliani

Sun Sep 20, 2009

Muskogee Phoenix

Herea s a subject that always raises a ruckus

I've been in two in my life. I lost both. One started when a bully called my mother a name.

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Related Topix: Muskogee, OK, Tom Coburn, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John Ensign, US House of Representatives, Opinion

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Miami.com

Lott, Clinton, Gingrich say bitterness fades

Set aside the images of lawmakers in hallowed halls of the Capitol yelling about who's lying and why, and picture this: Two Republican heavyweights and the Democratic president they tried to eject from office a decade ago, perched together as elder statesmen in a gilded chamber reserved for events that transcend partisanship.

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Thu Sep 17, 2009

News Observer

Senate unveils Trent Lott portrait in Washington

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., did what few politicians could accomplish yesterday - bring together former President Bill Clinton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and current Democratic and Republican Senate leaders in a bipartisan show of force for the most genteel of occasions - the unveiling of Lott' portrait in ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Senator Roger Wicker, Roger Wicker, US Senate, Trent Lott, Bill Clinton, History in the News

Thu Aug 27, 2009

The New Zealand Herald

Resentment in the heart of the Family

Obama's attempts to reform are prompting extreme reactions such as this protester quoting Thomas Jefferson's 'the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' Photo / AP From the street, the three-storey, red-brick Washington townhouse resembles a fine, upscale American residence.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, John Ensign, US House of Representatives, Todd Tiahrt, Barack Obama

Thu Aug 20, 2009

Market Watch

Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital: Lawmakers' dormitory: Is it home to a cult?

When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford made the teary-eyed confession of his extramarital affair at a press conference in June, he mentioned in passing that he had met with his colleagues at "C Street" for advice and support.

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Related Topix: Capitol Hill (Washington, DC), Washington, DC, Washington Post, Publishing, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John Ensign, US House of Representatives, Jerry Moran

Wed Aug 19, 2009

American Spectator

Plus Eight Is Enough

It's a long and ignominious list. First there was Newt Gingrich. Then came Mark Foley, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Chip Pickering and Vito Fossella.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Republican, US House of Representatives, John Edwards, Sex Scandal, Wedding

Mon Aug 17, 2009

Harper's Magazine

SCOTT HORTONa "Reporting on C Street

In the last several months, a political storm has brewed around a religious right group called the Family and its center of activities, a residential dwelling reported for tax purposes as a church located on C Street in Washington, D.C. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Nevada Senator John Ensign, and former Mississippi Congressman Chip ...

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Related Topix: South Carolina, South Carolina Government, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, John Ensign

Sun Aug 16, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

Lott talks scandal, judges, and the future of the GOP

Former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott spoke with the Sun Herald about recent major news items, including a Mississippi political sex scandal, judicial bribery investigations and his party's strategy to take back Congress.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Trent Lott, US Senate, John Ensign

Sat Aug 15, 2009

WORLD Magazine

All in the family

The national press for the past two months has roasted "hypocritical" Christians who live in or meet in a ministry-owned house on C Street two blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

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Related Topix: Christie, OK, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John Ensign, US House of Representatives, Jerry Moran, Zach Wamp

Wed Aug 12, 2009

Whitefish Bay

Political Hypocrites Offer Hope

Aug. 5, 2009 3:35 p.m. After years of carrying the pure banner of Christian principles and family values, the conservatives have been uncovered for their two-faced lives.

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Related Topix: Henry Hyde, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Jerry Moran

Whitefish Bay

Political Hypocrites Offer Hope

Aug. 5, 2009 3:35 p.m. After years of carrying the pure banner of Christian principles and family values, the conservatives have been uncovered for their two-faced lives.

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Related Topix: Henry Hyde, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Jerry Moran

Sun Aug 09, 2009

Salon.com

WashPost: Men behaving badly not funny anymore

The curtain went down this past week on "Mouthpiece Theater," a tacky experiment in political parody that made its video debut on the Washington Post Web site early this summer.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Beer, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Louisiana, Opinion

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