By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau
Published: 7\/25\/2009 4:10 AM
Last Modified: 7\/25\/2009 4:29 AM<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 Armadillos, marshmallows and American liberty.<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn managed to connect those three in a speech Thursday on the Senate floor to explain how he traps armadillos that visit his yard in Muskogee and what Americans could learn from their fate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll ruin a good yard \u2019cause they like grub worms,\u201d the Oklahoma Republican said in remarks on federal spending that could be described as vintage Coburn.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo all you have to do is to lay a few marshmallows out and then put a marshmallow or two in the trap cage. You\u2019ll catch those suckers.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Coburn, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening to Americans and their liberty.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe bite the first little bite off the marshmallow and say, \u2018Oh, that tastes good,\u2019 \u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201d \u2018I got a little benefit here. There\u2019s no connection between what I\u2019ve done and me receiving this benefit.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
And, Coburn continued, Americans then take another bite of the marshmallow and then another.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty soon, that armadillo fellow, he\u2019s in my cage. I got him. And the reason I got him is he kept thinking he could get something for nothing. He kept thinking, \u2018Man, that\u2019s a sweet marshmallow.'\u201d<\/p>\n
So, what happens to the armadillos that Coburn traps at his home?<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of two things,\u201d the physican-turned-politician explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cI either put \u2019em in the back of my pickup and take \u2019em 10 or 15 miles away from my property or I shoot \u2019em.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what\u2019s going to happen to us,\u201d Coburn said. \u201cWe are either going to be carried far way from what we know, we trust and believe in to be right or we are going to be extinct as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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