Talking Points

From today’s TFN News Clips:

“What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray.”

— U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., proposing from the Senate floor yesterday a prayer before an important vote on health care legislation. Observers took offense at the possibility that Sen. Coburn was referring to the 92-year-old, wheelchair-bound Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., who has been in and out of hospitals and lay ill at home.

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