Ethics

Now THIS is How You Pull a Poe

By Ed Brayton

I'm sure you've seen by now that Sen. Tom Coburn, on the floor of the Senate, urged people to pray that one of the Democrats would be unable to show up to vote for cloture on the health care bill. You may also know that on a related vote, Sen. James Inhofe, a far-right Republican, did not show up for the vote.

So on C-SPAN, a caller called in to ask another Republican senator if the praying had backfired on them. He pretended (I assume) to be a teabagger and even got choked up. If this is not a Poe, that's frightening. If it is, it was brilliantly done. Video below the fold.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 27, 2009 (boomark / email).