You remember Senator Coburn, is was the 'intermediary' for Ensign to 'enable' his extramarital affair.
What? You didn't know he was an intermediary? Oh, yeah. Here is an article in case anyone wants to 'catch up.'
Coburn Turns Over Emails To Feds Investigating Ensign Scandal (click title to entry - thank you)
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) -- who acknowledged last year that he acted as an "intermediary" between Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) and Doug Hampton, the man with whose wife the Nevada senator had an affair -- has turned over emails to the feds who are investigating Ensign's affair, Politico reports.
Coburn and Ensign were roommates at a Christian house on C Street at the time of the affair....
Well, today on the Senate floor he asked the question, "Why did it take ten years for the FDA to rule on Eggs?"
Like he is joking, right? That is like a question similar to leaving your fly open without knowing it.
Let's see if I can answer Senator Coburn's question. GEORGE W. BUSH. How's that? Get the picture?
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FDA whistleblower claims he'll be forced from post (click here)
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
Food and Drug Administration whistleblower David Graham said Wednesday that he expects as soon as next week to be forced from his job in the Office of Drug Safety. "I'm going to be transferred, and I don't want to go," said Graham, who told a Senate committee on Nov. 18 that the FDA is "virtually defenseless" against another "terrible tragedy and a profound regulatory failure" like Vioxx, an arthritis drug pulled off the market over concerns that it increased the risk of heart attack, stroke or sudden cardiac death.
Graham, associate director for science and medicine in the FDA office, went on to name five other drugs — Meridia, Crestor, Accutane, Serevent and Bextra — that he says threaten the public's safety....
So, while Senator Coburn is trying to make 'political hay' with the egg contamination issue, he only has his own CONSERVATIVE tendencies to blame.
For eight very long and stupid years the FDA was obstructed from real action on behalf of the American people due to the hostile relationships fostered with the Executive Branch during the Bush/ Cheney years.
There really isn't anything else to say. The FDA needed a 'impetus' to make a ruling and UNFORTUNATELY the contaminated eggs could have been prevented IF the FDA were allowed to act independently without having to 'bow' to some panel of one kind or another. BUT. Also, IF they were well staffed enough to ENFORCE the laws.
