{"id":2122,"date":"2004-07-14T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2122.html"},"modified":"2004-07-14T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T16:50:11","slug":"at-least-we-know-what-were-up-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/at-least-we-know-what-were-up-against\/","title":{"rendered":"At least we know what we&#8217;re up against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_07_11.php#003156\">Josh Marshall noted<\/a> a disturbing (to put it mildly) quote from Oklahoma Senate candidate and former House Rep. Tom Coburn (R).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I favor the death penalty,&#8221; Coburn told the AP last week, &#8220;for abortionists and other people who take life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, we may soon have a Republican senator who wants to execute physicians for performing a legal medical procedure. Good to know.<\/p>\n<p>I should note that Coburn&#8217;s ties to the <i>very<\/i> far right are solidified and his campaign is reaping the rewards. Last month, for example, Coburn received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coburnforsenate.com\/press17.shtml\">an endorsement<\/a> from the Gun Owners of America &#8212; the group for weapons enthusiasts who find the National Rifle Association too timid.<\/p>\n<p>Coburn&#8217;s path to the world&#8217;s most deliberative body, fortunately, isn&#8217;t easy. In two weeks, he&#8217;ll square off against former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys in a GOP primary. The winner will face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradcarson.com\/\">Rep. Brad Carson<\/a>, a moderate House Dem with surprisingly broad appeal in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show a tight race, both in the GOP primary and the general election. It&#8217;ll be fun to watch this one, if for no other reason, you never know what kind of crazy thing Coburn might say next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall noted a disturbing (to put it mildly) quote from Oklahoma Senate candidate and former House Rep. Tom Coburn (R). &#8220;I favor the death penalty,&#8221; Coburn told the AP last week, &#8220;for abortionists and other people who take life.&#8221; That&#8217;s right, we may soon have a Republican senator who wants to execute physicians for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}