{"id":712700,"date":"2010-04-09T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T11:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77523"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:10:01","slug":"early-morning-swim-tim-pawlenty-sean-hannity-tom-coburn-worst-persons-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/712700","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Tim Pawlenty, Sean Hannity, Tom Coburn Worst Persons in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"281\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TFaRdJJCkFY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>What <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/90883-coburn-threatens-to-block-all-spending-bills-in-senate\">an ass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Tuesday vowed to block all future  spending bills in the Senate that aren\u2019t fully \u201cpaid for\u201d with cuts to  other spending programs.<\/p>\n<p>Coburn and other Republicans are already  blocking a $9 billion bill to extend jobless benefits for 30 days that  isn\u2019t offset with other spending cuts. <strong>That impasse halted benefits to  200,000 unemployed people this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Coburn told The Hill he\u2019s disappointed with press coverage of his  position, saying the media should focus on the fact that Democrats  adopted a requirement that spending bills be paid for, yet frequently  disregard the rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what the story ought to be,\u201d he said.  \u201c<strong>If you\u2019re going to spend new money, pay for it. And they haven\u2019t paid  for a thing \u2026 As soon as I decided to do this, I knew the press would be  against this. That\u2019s just a fact of life in Washington. We have a  biased press.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wah! The press isn&#8217;t applauding my partisan hypocritical grandstanding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77523&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_77523\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an ass. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Tuesday vowed to block all future spending bills in the Senate that aren\u2019t fully \u201cpaid for\u201d with cuts to other spending programs. Coburn and other Republicans are already blocking a $9 billion bill to extend jobless benefits for 30 days that isn\u2019t offset with other spending cuts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zpa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814269,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712700\/revisions\/814269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}