"Opening Prayer Asked the Lord's Forgiveness for Runaway Government Spending..."

In great dancing Shiva's name, don't these idiots realize God might have a few more things on His/Her plate than the US budget?  Say like floods in Pakistan displacing millions of people, continuing catastrophe in Haiti, global warming and continuing violence of his creations as they murder each other?

Sure if I were invested in the circular firing squad the Republikkkan tea party has become, I'd pray for divine intervention also, albeit not praying for rights of gun owners.

Freakin' morons.


[Tea party activists hear from GOP candidates
By Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel
10:24 PM EDT, August 12, 2010

WINTER GARDEN — Nearly 1,000 people filled a high school auditorium Thursday night for the final debate between the seven Republicans vying to replace U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson.

The debate was sponsored by the West Orlando Tea Party, and took on an atmosphere that was pro-tea party and decidedly anti-Grayson and anti-Democrat...

An opening prayer asked the Lord's forgiveness for runaway government spending, abortion and attempts to limit gun rights.

Moderator Bud Hedinger, a talk radio host on 540 AM (WFLA), drew a standing ovation with the decree: "Alan Grayson has got to go."

There was little real debate among the candidates: Ross Bieling of Sanford, owner of a medical manufacturing company; Dan Fanelli of Windermere, a retired airline pilot; state Rep. Kurt Kelly of Ocala; Winter Park attorney Todd Long; Bruce O'Donoghue of Winter Park, who owns a traffic equipment business; Eustis stay-at-home mom and tea party activist Patricia Sullivan; and former state senator Dan Webster of Orlando.

All seven share many of the same political views and were complimentary toward one another.

Kelly summed up the crowd's mood: "We're coming forward to say we've had enough. We've been taxed enough already, but it's not just fiscal. We need to bring our nation back to a moral principle and put godly people in office who will say what they mean and mean what they say."

The winner of the Aug. 24 primary will face Grayson, Florida Tea Party candidate Peg Dunmire and George Metcalfe, an independent.

Hedinger stuck to the issues most important to voters in the GOP primary, including jobs, the economy, and repealing health-care reform.

Mark Schlueb can be reached at mschlueb@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5417.

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