But ever so frequently, Tom Coburn opens his yap and something stupid falls out. Sometimes, many stupid things.
Yesterday, Coburn was ranting to a bunch of slack-jawed rubes in his home state and said:
"It's just a good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor."
Now, if you or I said we wanted to pack a gun on the Senate floor--to get things done the way we want--we should expect a visit from some law enforcement agencies.
But Coburn wasn't through being an imbecile:
"As an African-American male," Coburn said, Obama received "tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs."
Who knew? I guess that's why blacks are doing so much better than whites in this country.