Republican Senator prays for fellow senators' misfortune then lies about it

Senators are so cute when they're angry.

 

I don't see that he's praying for misfortune. Misfortune would do the trick, but so would a host of other, more mundane events. I think the fact that Democrats would eagerly assume the worst intent is evidence of the rancor.

Regardless of the intent of any of the Senators, this is all just posturing. They can get offended all they want, but I honestly don't care. Just get some work done.

 

Seems the little prayer backfired this morning.

The second cloture vote passed this morning 60-39

Inhofe missed the vote

 

agree

 

My favorite Coburn recent stunt was trying to cover up for his fellow uber-Christian (The Family) nut case, the Senator Ensign from Arizona, in which Coburn urged Ensign to pay off his employee so he wouldn't get upset over the affair Ensign was having with his wife.

 

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Tea Partier Calls C-SPAN, Worried His Prayers For Byrd To Die Got Inhofe Instead


Think Progress makes a great catch on C-SPAN this morning: Someone calls in while Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) is answering the lines, practically in tears because Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) missed this morning's procedural vote on health care.

He was apparently concerned that -- after following Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) instructions to pray that someone couldn't make a manager's amendment vote Sunday night -- his prayers for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) to die struck the wrong senator.

"Our small tea bag group here in Waycross, we got our vigil together and took Dr. Coburn's instructions and prayed real hard that Sen. Byrd would either die or couldn't show up at the vote the other night," the caller said.

"How hard did you pray because I see one of our members was missing this morning. Did it backfire on us? One of our members died? How hard did you pray senator? Did you pray hard enough?" he continued, his voice breaking.

Inhofe was at the Sunday vote, but missed another procedural vote this morning.

Barrasso didn't really respond, but reassured the caller that Republicans didn't need Inhofe there today. For the record, Inhofe is still quite alive and plans to return to the Senate for later votes this week.

 

Wow, is it even necessary to explicitly pray for a 92 year old man to die? Can't you just pray for him to get locked out of his house in a snowstorm; or for time to not stop?