Coburn strikes again

I just read in instapundit about an exchange between Senator Coburn and Senator Specter about funding for CDC. Coburn is a physician and submitted an amendment to a bill which would take $60 million from an authorization bill and spend it on AIDS drugs instead of a Japanese garden for the CDC facility. This would have been enough money to buy drugs for everyone in the U.S. now waiting on funds to treat their disease. You must use the past tense since the amendment was rejected by the senate on a vote of 85 to 15. Specter tried to deny there were funds in the bill for a garden, but his aids had to admit that there were funds for this purpose. Read the whole thing here. I bet they just hate Coburn in the Senate and from what I understand, Coburn couldn't possibly care less which must also drive the business as usual politicians crazy.