If you have about a half hour to kill tonight or tomorrow or over the weekend, take a look at this video, produced by Senate Republicans:
Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John Barrasso (R-WY) are among the Senate’s more conservative members. But they’re also M.D.s! (You may remember Coburn from TPMMuckraker’s reporting on the John Ensign scandal as the conspirator who has pre-emptively refused to testify citing patient-doctor confidentiality.)
Now he’s back, with his colleague from Wyoming, using his professional degree to give questionable cover to his political aims. This isn’t new to the Republican party. Recall that in 2005, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said he disagreed with physicians’ diagnosis of a vegitative Terri Schiavo, based on videotaped footage he’d viewed in his office. Frist is a heart surgeon.
