http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/30/125548/067 US Senator <a rel="nofollow" href="http://coburn.senate.gov/public/">Tom Coburn</a> (R - OK) is no fan of big government. He's not really what you could call a fan of federal workers. Thus, when the Oklahoma uber conservative thinks he's found a juicy piece of red meat involving absenteeism of federal workers, he starts chomping down reflexively. He's doing a good bit of masticating these days over his finding that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR en-us Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:43:27 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/