Blog: Mobtown Shank

Republican Sen. Coburn's (an anti-healthcarist) takes a question at a town hall from an understandably upset woman who needs help because for-profit health insurance won't help her with her husband's traumatic brain injury. A translation of Coburn's response: 1. as a representative of government I will help you 2. government can't help your problems 3. only your neighbors can help us solve our problems 4. therefore we the people are not government Okay, I'm not even sure how the hell this makes sense. But the folks clapping [...]