UPDATE: See comment below!
The Senate has more than its fair share of warped minds, but Sen. Coburn (R-Okla.) is aiming for top honors.
What a Sicko he is!
Going into Monday morning’s crucial Senate vote on health-care legislation, Republican chances for defeating the bill had come down to a last, macabre hope. They needed one Democratic senator to die — or at least become incapacitated.
At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon — nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively clinch the legislation’s passage — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) went to the Senate floor to propose a prayer. “What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight,” he said. “That’s what they ought to pray.”
It was difficult to escape the conclusion that Coburn was referring to the 92-year-old, wheelchair-bound Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) who has been in and out of hospitals and lay at home ailing. It would not be easy for Byrd to get out of bed in the wee hours with deep snow on the ground and ice on the roads — but without his vote, Democrats wouldn’t have the 60 they needed.
Good of Senator Durbin (D-Ill.) to seek a clarification from him, though none has come so far.
Can the republicans go deeper – there are many candidates?
Does any of their crap shock you anymore?
I must admit that I find his statement quite disturbing.
I’m afraid to ponder how/if they can sink lower. š
Nothing they do surprises me any more.
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“God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two — one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him Who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this — keep it in mind. If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor’s crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.”
Mark Twain (1904-1905)
Mark Twain’s War Prayer … Harpers refused to publish until after his death.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
Apparently, Sen. Coburn was taken seriously:
Transcript:
H/T: Jed Lewison @ DK
The caller invokes memories of Jonestown for me. Real or an act, its very spooky stuff.