Sen. John Ensign Gets Top Care From His Ob/Gyn, Sen. Tom Coburn

New revelations in the New York Times about Sen. John Ensign and his mistress's husband Doug Hampton shed some light on the relationship between Sen. Ensign and his Ob/Gyn, Sen. Tom Coburn:

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Ensign's former mistress and her husband sought an $8.5 million settlement from the Nevada Republican before the affair became public, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a friend of Ensign, acted as an intermediary in negotiations last spring with the lawyer for Cynthia and Doug Hampton before Ensign publicly admitted the relationship with Mrs. Hampton, the Times said.

Now that's what I call patient care!

For Poor People, No Family Planning Funds And Off With Their Heads

Women's reproductive healthcare is not important.

Evaluating the economic stimulus effect of states using Medicaid money for family planning without the need for a waiver from the Department of Health and Human Services on its merits is not serious business. It's just a sideshow.

After all, it seems our beloved politicians agree in a most harmonious bipartisan manner that providing family planning funds for the low-income is, by definition, an example of wasteful spending that would neither create jobs nor otherwise improve the economy.