One senator, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, made rumblings about living up to his nickname, "Dr. No," and single-handedly blocking the bill.Moral values and fiscal responsibility, eh?
Coburn really is a doctor, an obstetrician who delivered 4,000 babies. His opera singer daughter, Sarah, often performs in New York. He has never encountered a military allocation too large for him to support.
Yet, all he saw was waste when it came to helping those who responded after the worst single attack in American history. He might very well have carried through with his threat were it not for the Oklahoma City firefighters who came to our aid just as our Finest and Bravest came to their city's aid after the bombing there in 1995.
With the moral authority of a veteran who was one of the first to respond to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City Firefighters Association chief Phil Sipe pointedly called for Coburn to reconsider. Sipe made clear his view of the failure to support his New York comrades who responded on 9/11.
I would say something mean comparing them (that would be the Republicans opposed to the Zadroga bill mentioned in this article) to the Roman soldiers who scourged and mocked Jesus, but I have begun to think that that is what they aspire to.
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