Quote of the Day

[Trigger warning for violent rhetoric.]

"It's just a good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor."—Senator Tom Coburn, Republican from Oklahoma, waxing eliminationist about his "cowardly" colleagues in the Senate for their insufficient support of a conservative agenda.

This, too, would be the same Congress from which Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is still on medical leave after being shot by a violent asshole who did not grow up in a void.

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