{"id":9364,"date":"2009-12-22T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T23:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2009-12-22T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T23:17:25","slug":"hoisted-by-their-own-prayertard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9364","title":{"rendered":"Hoisted By Their Own Prayertard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So do you remember when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-ExxonMobil, was telling teabaggers the other day to pray that “something” would happen to prevent a Democrat from making it to the Senate to cast their vote for cloture on health care reform? Sure you do. It was essentially a call to pray for the death<\/a> of 423-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd, D-State Now Named for Robert Byrd.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, it was pretty despicable, and it made Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pretty furious. I think Coburn thought he was being cryptic enough that nobody would catch on, but Coburn really isn’t that bright. I mean, even Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee<\/a> backed him in hoping for the death of the Senior Senator from Byrdland.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it will not surprise you that teabaggers took Coburn’s call to pray to heart. It may surprise you, however, to find out that the prayers worked. A senator did miss a vote today. But not Byrd. Nor conservative b\u00eate noire<\/i> Sen. Al Franken, DFL-Minn. Nor Patty Murray, Roland Burris, nor even Holy Joe Lieberman. No, the senator unable to make it to vote was Sen. James Inhofe, R-Chevron<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, the lulz are serious with that. Coburn managed to encourage a prayer that took out his fellow Oklahoman-slash-Corporate Whore. But it gets better. Because of course, the teabaggers did<\/i> pray. And they’re a little bit worried about the powers they are dealing with.<\/p>\n

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It is to laugh.<\/p>\n

The best part of the video — which, for the YouTube impaired, features a tearful teabagger telling Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., that his group had “prayed real hard” that Sen. Byrd would die or be unable to make the vote — is the man essentially accusing Barrasso of not praying hard enough for Byrd’s death, thus causing God to punish James Inhofe for…something.<\/p>\n

Of course, if I was a man of deep and abiding faith in a God who wants to influence the Senate by killing off its members one-by-one, I would tend to suggest that God making Inhofe sick is not so much evidence that teabaggers weren’t praying hard enough for a senator to die, but more that God has different ideas about which senators are expendable. It might even make me think that God kind of wants this bill to pass, and might support our nation’s slide into Muslim Marxist Communist Fascism.<\/p>\n

Alas, I imagine that Inhofe is just under the weather. ((Which is proof that global warming doesn’t exist. Also.)) Still, while I don’t believe in a God that interferes directly in our lives, this tests my lack of faith; if I were God, making Coburn’s fellow Republican just a bit too sick to make the vote is exactly the sort of thing I’d do in response to Coburn’s prayer. The only change I’d make would be that Coburn himself would have food poisoning or a bad cold or some other temporary, non-lethal ailment.<\/p>\n

But I suppose that would be too obvious — proof denies faith, after all. And God wouldn’t want that.<\/p>\n

Hmm. You don’t think…?<\/p>\n

Well played, God. Well played.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Inhofe evidently missed the vote<\/a> because he had to fly with his wife back to Oklahoma, but he’s going to then fly back<\/i> to DC to cast more votes. Now, I’m assuming his wife isn’t eleven years old, so I’m not sure why she can’t fly home on her own, other than the general conservative belief that women are not, in fact, people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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