GOP Senator Corburn made headline this last weekend when he asked, on the senate floor, the American people to pray that a member of the majority caucus would not show up to vote, thus leaving the Democrats one vote shy of breaking the GOP filibuster.
Corburn said :
What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray.
Apparently, on tuesday, a C-SPAN caller wondered if there was a backfire on Senate Republicans and specifically on Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma for the speech he made that seemed to wish death upon Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. Because yesterday mmorning, the Senate health care reform bill jumped the second procedural hurdle, with all 60 senators in the Democratic caucus voting to pass the measure, but, there were only 39 Republicans voted against passage. (Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) was the Republican who missed the vote)
CALLER: Yeah doctor. Our small tea bag group here in Waycross, we got our vigil together and took Dr. Coburn’s instructions and prayed real hard that Sen. Byrd would either die or couldn’t show up at the vote the other night.
How hard did you pray because I see one of our members was missing this morning. Did it backfire on us? One of our members died? How hard did you pray senator? Did you pray hard enough?
While Barrasso didn’t answer the question directly, he said he didn’t know why Inhofe missed the vote.
Watch for yourself to decide whether or not the Caller was joking or was serious.