Sen Coburn PRAYS A Dem Senator Will Die--Or At Least Become Incapacitated Before The Vote Tonight

[kpete]

An ugly finale for health-care reform

By Dana Milbank
Monday, December 21, 2009; 2:00 AM

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."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/20/AR2009122002872.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[MadBadger]

1. Or have car trouble....Dana took it a little too far I think.

[AlinPA]

6. I think Milbank had it right. It fits Coburn.

[secondwind]

2. what I've been saying all along, folks. Think two words LAUTENBERG and BYRD.

Both men are in the 80's, and Byrd is hospitalized now and again, trying to stay alive.....TO VOTE ON THIS BILL!

JAM THE SUCKER THROUGH, then we can fix it later..........

We will NEVER have this chance again, folks!

I don't like it anymore than anyone else.

[rucky]

3. It's official: Oklahoma has the biggest douchebags for Senators.

Sorry South Carolina

[mstinamotorcity]

4. i wonder what

would happen if while praying for someone to miss this vote. what goes around comes around. he might end up missing some votes himself after the people of OK wake the fuck up by the next election.

[bedazzled]

8. it's called karma -- what you wish for someone else comes back to them

i never wish bad to a person. sometimes the worst
you can wish to a person is that they get what they
deserve.

[mstinamotorcity]

10. THANKS

forgot about that word sums it up fine i must say so with you.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. Stay classy, Coburn.

We expect nothing less from you.

[undeterred]

7. Perhaps God will strike Coburn himself.

:shrug:

[MiniMe]

9. Or not be able to get in because of the snow

I still don't like Coburn, he is an ass. But the roads were bad in DC yesterday.

[zbdent]

11. and yet, if some liberal said something to the effect of "The person who made that

statement should volunteer to be the one to die" ...

boy, the "liberal" (corporate) media sure would have a total meltdown of how horrible that "liberal" was ...

as it is, ... Coburn gets a pass ...

[AzDar]

12. How unlike Christ!

:puke:

[librechik]

13. please, somebody go over to Byrd's house and make sure he's ok

I don't trust that "Family." They think it's ok to murder in order to make their prayers come true.

[KamaAina]

14. Today's Worst. Person. In The World!

:wtf:

[Gregorian]

15. YAY FOR COMPASSION!

Today I only wish the best for everybody. I guess I'm just weird. Or as Steele would say, I just roll like that. :)

[newtothegame]

16. Desperate attempt at controversy. Unrecc'd. n/t