Now That’s What I Call Lobbying

From The Hill:

Conservative lawmakers plan a “prayercast” on Wednesday against healthcare reform legislation. Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), along with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will team up with a group of pastors and religious leaders for a “prayercast” organized by the socially conservative Family Research Council’s action group.

The lawmakers will participate in a prayer service broadcast online on Wednesday evening to pray against “the threats to the God-given right to human life through government funding of abortions, our health from rationing, our family finances from higher taxes, and our general freedom posed by the government plan to take over healthcare.”

“We will enter into a time of prayer for the nation, and our leaders. Your engagement and prayer is more critical than ever as Congress will very soon vote on a final health care bill,” a description of the event on FRC Action’s website says.

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11 Responses to Now That’s What I Call Lobbying

  1. Susan says:

    The first thing I thought of when I read this was Abbie Hoffman’s 1967 attempt to levitate the Pentagon and drive out the demons within it.

  2. Mike H says:

    It’s one of the sadder realizations that the one thing that might keep America from following the irrational visions of one group of idiots into the abyss might be another group of idiots pulling in the opposite direction towards another abyss. You might be pulling alongside them but you always gotta watch what’s to your back.

  3. Susan says:

    Instead of praying, they might use the time better to inform people that the cost of “free” health care for the average middle income family would be between 15 to 20 grand a year.

  4. Rob says:

    Nothing else seems able to derail this train so I say, give it a chance.

    Susan – I’m not sure what education will gain – polls indicate a lot of opposition but it doesn’t seem to matter to our DC potentates.

  5. Susan says:

    Speaking of derailing, Obama referred to the U.S. as being “on the edge of a precipice” in terms of the upcoming (or not) passage of the health bill. I agree that it will throw us off the financial cliff, but really, was that what the Master Orator intended to say?

    Side note on supernatural beliefs: The Pew Forum says that Democrats are more likely to believe in ghosts, psychic phenomena, astrology, etc. than are Republicans.

  6. Ethan says:

    @Susan
    I sort of like the image of Obama as Holmes wrestling with Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Except I think he might have cast us as Moriarty. In any case “precipice” is a fun word for a presidential speech; perhaps the next one will start, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

  7. Susan says:

    @Ethan

    “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…”

  8. Susan says:

    Although by this time next year, he may be starting his speeches with “Call me Ishmael.”

  9. Apathy Curve says:

    Sigh… Carl Sagan may have been a bit to the left, but he was right about one thing: the ‘demon-haunted world’ is still very real for a depressingly large percentage of the human race.

  10. Susan says:

    Well, the lobbying appears to have failed.

  11. Susan says:

    So how do the sponsors of the prayercast rationalize its failure? Do they have to concede that God wants the bill passed?

    During the Civil War, didn’t Lincoln say something to the effect that both sides read from the same Bible, both sides prayed to the same God, and that both sides were praying for victory, but only one side was going to have its prayers answered?

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