Caller asks GOP senator if he prayed hard enough for other senators to die

[DainBramaged]

A caller who reached CSPAN asked a Republican senator if he'd prayed hard enough for GOP Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) to die on Tuesday.

"We got our vigil together and took Sen. 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 called, dubbed "Abraham," remarked. "How hard did you pray, because I see one of our members is missing this morning. Did it backfire on us? Did one of our members die?"

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) announced Sunday he was hoping -- even praying -- that one of his Democratic colleagues somehow could not manage to cast a vote on health care in the wee hours of Monday morning. Liberal critics saw the remarks as a thinly veiled aside against 92-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), who had to be wheeled in in a wheelchair to vote. (He did.)

As the chamber neared the first of several procedural ballots to end debate on the bill ahead of final passage, Coburn said, "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight. That's what they ought to pray."

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/caller-asks-gop-senator-prayed-hard-senators-die/

VIDEO AT LINK

The sad part is Sen. Barrasso DID NOT show ANY anger at the comment by the caller or even any reaction, disgusting.....

[BeyondGeography]

1. Sounds like a gag call...then again...

[DainBramaged]

4. I don't think it was a gag call, not by a long shot

[90-percent]

2. Did anyone....?

Did anyone hear the caller use the term "baa-baa-booey" during the call?

-90% jimmy

[Daphne08]

3. "Sen. Barrasso DID NOT show ANY anger at the comment

by the caller or even any reaction..."

That's what shocked me!