{"id":412,"date":"2009-12-21T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2009-12-21T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T09:52:00","slug":"gop-sweetheart-12212009-%e2%80%93-tom-%e2%80%98c-street%e2%80%99-coburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/gop-sweetheart-12212009-%e2%80%93-tom-%e2%80%98c-street%e2%80%99-coburn\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sweetheart 12\/21\/2009 \u2013 Tom \u2018C street\u2019 Coburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s how desperate the GOP has gotten in their attempts to defeat the health care bill in the Senate.<\/p>\n

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\"Coburn-C<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is hoping, even praying, that one of his Democratic colleagues somehow cannot manage to cast a vote on health care in the wee hours of Monday morning.<\/font><\/p>\n

As the chamber nears 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<\/strong>. That’s what they ought to pray."<\/font><\/p>\n

His suggestion, seemingly a veiled remark aimed at ailing 92-year-old Senator Robert Byrd (D-VA), struck a raw nerve with Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). "I don’t think it’s appropriate to be invoking prayer to wish misfortune on a colleague<\/strong>…<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Raw Story<\/a>><\/p>\n

Only a true GOP Sweetheart would call on the Supply-side Jesus (The GOP invention, not the real one) to bring harm to a colleague to prevent a fair vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s how desperate the GOP has gotten in their attempts to defeat the health care bill in the Senate.   Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is hoping, even praying, that one of his Democratic colleagues somehow cannot manage to cast a vote on health care in the wee hours of Monday morning. As the chamber nears […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}