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Coburn. Man, he is. You got to give him credit. He's a deeply conservative

senator from Oklahoma and he's not playing. He's going to take a very emotional

question from someone who's got a health care issue, a real one, not one that's

made up from the town hall crazies, etc. As she's going to explain her

husband as a real problem she needs to deal with. And Coburn's response is

amazing in its callousness. I believe Rick Sanchez is going to explain this on CNN.

Let's watch.

Well, I think first of all, yeah, we'll help. The first thing we'll do is see what

we can do individually to help you through our office. But the other thing

that's missing in this debate is us as neighbors helping people that need our

help. You know, we tend to. The idea that the government is a solution to our

problems is an inaccurate, a very inaccurate statement.

What's interesting about that is that Senator Coburn just essentially said the

government is not the solution. But then you have to ask yourself. He just told

her to come and see him. Isn't he the government? By the way, after helping her,

what will he do about the other 46,999,000 Americans who don't have

insurance and the thousands upon thousands of Americans who say they do have

insurance, but like her, they're not getting coverage. Look, Sanchez is exactly

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