Video: Democratic congresswoman holds “prayer vigil” on health care
posted at 7:13 pm on August 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
Remind me, which prayer is it that involves ranting about the stimulus bill and demanding single-payer health care? Was that the one Jesus taught the crowd when he gave his sermon on insurance premiums? This sure sounds like a town hall dressed up as a “vigil” in order to discourage protesters from challenging Sanchez — note the conspicuous restrictions placed on the crowd at around 1:10 in the interests of “reverence” — but to believe that, you’d have to believe that Democrats would select venues specifically designed to avoid facing angry dissent from their constituents.
And you don’t believe that, do you?
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She’s mixing Church and State in California… She’s a witch… Build a bridge out of her…
phreshone on August 7, 2009 at 7:15 PM
CUNNING STUNT!
400lb Gorilla on August 7, 2009 at 7:16 PM
That wench weighs more than a duck…
Fighton03 on August 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM
I wonder what god she is praying to? probably Molech, who liked the sacrifice of children, given that abortion is their holy sacrament!
right4life on August 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Creative cowardice.
a capella on August 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Yes, let’s all pray to God for unlimited federal funding of abortion.
Cicero43 on August 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM
The Eric Cartman Prayer?
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Nutjobs are going round the bend.
Riddle me this Joker: How do you insure 47 million new patients, including illegals, with no new doctors and say the costs will go down?
tarpon on August 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM
lol – she needs a guest appearance by Al “in my faith tradition” Gore.
I think, though, it’s the one where he said Render to Caesar the authority to determine your care. Or maybe she was refering to James when he said, ‘Visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction before the state decides their quality of life doesn’t entitle them to any more medication’.
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Careful… you might start a revival for Leftists.
They [lefties] could use “fetus” blood instead of holy water.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Obama’s really really smart. That’s how.
Cicero43 on August 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Dems praying, it’s the seventh sign I tells ya!
Laura in Maryland on August 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM
I’m sure she has done the same thing at her previous Townhall meeting’s. Allah i hope your not holding back relevant info that would show this to be true. /s
heshtesh on August 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM
she’s pretty hot.
If she couldn’t talk, she’d be hotter.
therightscoop on August 7, 2009 at 7:20 PM
So the left is against mixing religion into anything unless it’s for their benefit?
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Just because they say they are going to doesn’t mean they actually do…
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Was that the one Jesus taught the crowd when he gave his sermon on insurance premiums?
No, but it is similar to the verse describing Moses’ passing along the evils of Credit Default Swaps and excessive executive compensation…
phreshone on August 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM
ding ding ding
separation between church and state for thee but not for me….
cmsinaz on August 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM
In the name of Nancy, Harry and the almighty Barak we ask you, Dear Leader, to suspend the basic laws of Economics, that we may further bankrupt this nation, for ever and ever.
Amen
trubble on August 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Oh… I see…
It’s the Give Unto Caesar Out of The Whazoo Prayer.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Jesus was all about mugging people.
lorien1973 on August 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Loretta Sanchez is being challenged next year by Van Tran and the GOP is targeting this race, so of course the GOP challenger had to go screw things up by interfering with police conducting a DUI investigation. Way to go.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/quach-hall-tran-2520596-police-car
Mark1971 on August 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Hey, she’s got a big latino constituency so guess why she wants to get the gummint to run health care? I’m thinking to get more folks from Sonora or Sinaloa to move to Garden Grove and vote for her. She’s a turd.
Excuse me, that’s not nice. She’s a turdette.
VoyskaPVO on August 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Those who would try to cloak their deeds with some kind of spiritual “cover” define hypocrisy.
INC on August 7, 2009 at 7:23 PM
A collective prayer that grandma makes it through Obamacare!
Frances on August 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Welcome to ObamaCare. I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.
Laura in Maryland on August 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Maybe I could understand this bill better if I didn’t speak English so well.
PattyJ on August 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM
I find it reprehensible to invoke God into this, when this is the party that advocates abortions, has a Czar working in the White House, that believes 2 year olds can be aborted because they aren’t socialized yet, and voices an opinion that would force abortions on unconsenting women, and sterilization agents in our water. Not to mention the fact, that any time a Conservative is religious, they’re a nut?
Shame on you. God is watching, and listening, and he knows your true heart.
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Political coward. Shyster.
And the “men of cloth” who enabled her – religious skanks.
fred5678 on August 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM
As a Catholic I find it appaling to invoke prayerful townhall meetings for pro abortion and euthanasia under the guise of health care reform.
fourdeucer on August 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Church and State….call the religious police. I am offended.
nondhimmie on August 7, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Why don’t they just pray that George W. Bush will stop giving your children AIDS? – i.e. condoms will drop from the sky and finally make it to the understocked mini-marts.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:25 PM
..yeah, but there’s a lot of Vietnamese in the district and they are fiercely Republican. I’m betting that the disgust with her and Democrats will get him past this.
VoyskaPVO on August 7, 2009 at 7:25 PM
It’s just like feeding the multitudes with a couple of fish and some bread, but on a grander scale.
“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the One, and a powerful ally He is. Life creates Him, makes Him grow. His energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the One around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.”
rw on August 7, 2009 at 7:25 PM
God hates Democrats. When Democrats send out a prayer to him, it just reminds him of the great evil in this world.
Apologetic California on August 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM
This was held at a Catholic Church with a democrat who supports abortion. Unbelievable.
jencab on August 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Prayer vigil, my a$%. She is bragging about voting for the stimulus package? How do I go about getting elected to the House? Obviously, it doesn’t take a whole lot to be qualified.
TXMomof3 on August 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM
This is utterly hilarious.
I don’t think it would have been too disrespectful to break out in freedom songs and make this into a full blown gospel meeting.
misslizzi on August 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM
I thought they were sacrificing babies to Baal.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Keep your laws off my body and your God out of my government
CWforFreedom on August 7, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Which Messiah are they worshiping here.
It certainly not Jesus Christ
Kini on August 7, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Dear gawd…
Nice job packing the stage with a panel of local religious leaders.
Ya know, just when you think these Dems can’t sink any lower, they go and surprise us every time. I hope someone’s keeping notes on all this. It’s gonna make one heck of a documentary about the fall of America.
JetBoy on August 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Nice finger wave and head bob. Great voting California! You picked a real winner.
HadithHarry on August 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM
She should be praying that the billion$ needed to pay for this crap sandwich will suddenly appear before her.
LASue on August 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Doesn’t Sanchez know this will upset the pagans?
She’d better go to a drum beat tonight…
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Rush tells people to go to townhalls and talk to their reps and that’s some nefarious organization.
These people type up a letter and put copies on people’s seats and say “You need to sign it and we’ll take it to Senator Feinstein” and that’s just grassroots in action.
My IQ dropped 20 points watching that video. I can’t believe some of these people get to make decisions about my life. If we’re going to have a dictatorship, can’t it at least be a dictatorship of our betters?
JadeNYU on August 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
No prayers for Global
CoolingWarmingCoolingChange?Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
When are they going to lay hands on the remaining Kennedys and beg Teh One for protection?
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
This they she keeps to referring to. Would that be illegal immigrants?
Guardian on August 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
That was a bad time for my dyslexia to kick in… She is simply stunning.
Tuari on August 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Uh… What would Rivera say…?
Demonized Young Men that happen to jump fences.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Did she pray that her eyes would be opened about abortion and euthanasia,or was this a prayer for the heathens who might object to a “little loss of freedom”?
mobydutch on August 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM
All she is doing is proving just how arrogant the Democrats truly are. In fact I find it quite offencive that a Democrat congresswoman (who in all likelihood only pays the barest lip service to any form of faith) would use prayer as a cover to try and foil any sort of criticism of herself and her party’s polices. She must really think her constituents are dumb if she thinks she can pull a stunt like this and get away with it.
Hellrider on August 7, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Ahhhhh yes I seem to remember Jesus telling the Apostles to STFU until he was done preaching—
The left loonybirds could not recite a prayer or part of the Bible if a crucifix fell on them!!!!!! (wish full thinking)
Ok I will report myself—-
Ladywolfnl on August 7, 2009 at 7:37 PM
It is a shame the cross she wears isn’t the cross she bears.
fourdeucer on August 7, 2009 at 7:37 PM
And for the elimination of all those elderly who spend so much money on health care. You know, those who Obama said should just take that painkiller…
newton on August 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Personally, I’m an agnostic, so the prayer thing doesn’t bother me one way or the other…. but since when are Democrats all hot to hold “prayer vigils”? For a health care bill?
Isn’t that a violation of their precious “seperation of church and state”?
jana on August 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Before they pray, they might want to start by confessing some sins.
Actually, Jesus gave a good sermon on health care. You’ve all heard it. It’s the story of the good Samaritan, which is found in Luke.
“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead with no clothes. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, and he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, he too passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and looked after him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Notice in this story, the good Samaritan did go into the town and demand the rich be taxed to pay for this man’s needs! He didn’t tell the innkeeper he ought to do more for the needy! He took the burden on himself and cared for the needs of this man!!
And what did Jesus say at the end??? “Go and do likewise!”
The libs in this story are just like the robbers and all the other people who pass by! That’s the truth here!
Yeah,, I think they need to do some repenting before they start praying!
JellyToast on August 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
This one should be sent back to a kitchen…someplace…maybe a prison kitchen.
Would solve the overpopulation problem in prisons, maybe, er, a wonman of her skils. They would die of starvation or ptomaine.
Harry Schell on August 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Lord, please kill this crappy bill and help us run the Democrats out of Washington. I will stop eating fast food and drinking and saying bad words and just about anything, if you will make these people go away.
Amen.
Terrye on August 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
ugh… I mean “separation”, not “seperation”
jana on August 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Is she related to Rick?
d1carter on August 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
So now God wants federalized bureaucratic medicine? As a man sows, so shall he reap. THAT’S what Jesus said.
Mojave Mark on August 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Good point. Where is Michael Newdow when you need him, eh?
newton on August 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
It sounded like she drew a very small crowd. I didn’t hear a lot of clapping.
sherry on August 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM
+1,000
jana on August 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM
bingo
cmsinaz on August 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
From a Christian to an Atheist: Good one.
Cody Baker on August 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
You sick Dems you can run but you can,t hide forever.
thmcbb on August 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
“do not speak without permission from the chair”
Damn. Freedom of speech is so 2008.
Ampersand on August 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
There weren’t enough angry black women, openly gay Zen-Episcopalians, and John Edward’s speech writers.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Call the ACLU…Call the ACLU…Call the ACLU!
Gothguy on August 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Correcting myself is such a pain!
JellyToast on August 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
She’s mixing Church and State in California…
phreshone on August 7, 2009 at 7:15 PM
It only counts if you are a Republican.
yoda on August 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/26/loretta-stoned-congresswoman-high-on-life/
Here is the dingbat in Denver for the Dem convention last year.
Mark1971 on August 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Somebody should have shouted “HALLELUJAH!” every time she mentioned the stimulus package.
GoodBoy on August 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Loretta Sanchez and alleged voter fraud.
In another case concerning a U.S. House seat in which voter fraud may have influenced the result, California Republican Congressman Bob Dornan was defeated by Democrat Loretta Sanchez in an upset, by the narrow margin of 984 votes in 1996. Dornan charged that Sanchez’s margin came from non-citizens, and an investigation by the House of Representatives found that 547 non-citizens had voted in the election, but not enough to void the election. Some believe that far more non-citizens who were not detected actually voted. John Fund, in his book Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy, says that an INS investigation in 1996 into alleged Motor Voter fraud in California’s 46th District revealed that “4,023 illegal voters possibly cast ballots in the disputed election between Republican Robert Dornan and Democrat Loretta Sanchez.”
There’s tons more about Sanchez and voter fraud on the web. In my opinion, she stole the election.
hepcat on August 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Maybe they could pray that Barack Obama takes his family to church…
…Oh, wait, it’s not like religion is important.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM
This is becoming hilarious…first they hid behind kids at a children’s hospital…now their hiding in a prayer vigil…meanwhile, when they do show up, it’s with SIEU thugs who will beat anybody who voices an opinion they don’t like…looks kinda DESPERATE to me.
AUINSC on August 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Remove ING and replace with T.
Spiritk9 on August 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM
From now on Bibles will have a picture of Loretta Sanchez next to the 3rd Commandment.
infidel4life on August 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Ummmm maybe her God, is Obama, and that’s who she was praying to? He is the messiah afterall.
capejasmine on August 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
CUNNING STUNT!
400lb Gorilla on August 7, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Remove ING and replace with T.
you are getting it
400lb Gorilla on August 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
This is awesome. I hope people are paying attention as Democrats publicly demonstrate that they absolutely do not stand for openness, debate and dialogue. The only think they want is naked and unquestioned power.
gwelf on August 7, 2009 at 7:49 PM
LMFAO. This bill covers abortion, right?
alliebobbitt on August 7, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Nancy Pelosi: People kept saying “Heil!”
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Stunning
400lb Gorilla on August 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Who did she pray to? God or obama?
BottomLine5 on August 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Disgusting.
forest on August 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
yep…another lecture.
Fighton03 on August 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Gender Neutral Being.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Sanchez, I hope you realize this is NOT a Christian country.
Just thought I would remind you.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Someone upstairs might get pissed.
Techie on August 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
*ugh*
Another ‘me me me knows what’s best for you you you‘ California Congress Representative pandering to her constituents whom are also largely Latino and Asian immigrants from socialist healthcare countries… and voters.
At least she loudly professes what she wants, “…a single payer universal healthcare system“. As opposed to Obama and the rest of the Defeatocrats (and our RINO’s) who wimper it but won’t come right out and say it right now.
I am totally with you 400lb Gorilla (and bravo!):
…
SilverStar830 on August 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Sanchez:
OOOOOKeey
Dear Lord or nonexeeesting beeeing
I baag yous to geeve us mony 4 aborshuns
Dee End
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM
So far as she’s concerned, they are one and the same.
jana on August 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Exactly.
Libs are Godless. Everyone knows that.
Global warming, taxing/spending, and destroying America is their religion.
David2.0 on August 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM
It’s the King Barack Bible’s version of Mark 10:14
“Suffer, little children!”
malclave on August 7, 2009 at 7:55 PM
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