That's all, just "huh?".

One can hear, in these words, the voice of Dana Carvey's "Church Lady". Where is she when we need her most?

...to surrender all your critical thinking facilities to an organized religion.

I thought it just showed food can motive almost anyone to show up for a meeting.

OMIGAWD! Bush is religious?! Do tell!

The body and blood of Christ? Having a Catholic prayer breakfast, which frankly to me...(nine years of saying "yes, sister" and having my skirt length checked) smacks of the Southern Baptists meet the Lions Club...is disturbing enough. It's just so "unCatholic". But having George Bush there is just creepy enough to keep me away from church even on Christmas day. Is nothing "sacred"? (and did Bush Bogart the chalice?)

Sarcasm is not necessarily sacrilege, by the way.

It is fitting that our Leader appears at prayer breakfasts. Or prayer luncheons, dinners, or even prayer midnight snacks. With the sheer number and enormity of all the crimes exposed in, and scandals now emanating from, his corrupt reign he's gonna need all the prayers he can get.

It's the most important meal of the Constitution.

Is this the venue in which he repeated his call for a 'culture of life' in this country?

1/2 million dead in Iraq...

Torture...

Prosecutors fired for not agressively using the death penalty...

No health care...

Walter Reed...

Gut pollution controls...

Gut endangered species act...

If own phrase summed up this presidency, it would be 'culture of death.'

I thought free and fair elections showed the true strength of our nation. Ahh, ok that might be a bit tarnished since 2000.

I know - separation of powers! Co-equal branches of government. Checks and balances. Well, maybe not so much anymore.

I've got it: We lead the way in humanitarian efforts and stand strong on human rights! Oh right, the UN kicked us off of that panel...aaaand then there's the whole torture thing.

Separation of church and state! I guess Bush isn't a big fan of that is he?

Our ability to respond to threats anywhere in the world? Commitment to peaceful solutions to global problems? Our outstanding relationship with the international community? Our strong and independent press (Neither Fear nor Favor!)? Ethics in Government? Responsible use of our natural resources? Actually, I'm not feeling so great about those right now either.

Prayer breakfasts it is!

And at this breakfast, Bush called for a "culture of life," referring to the right of a handful of stem cells frozen just past the point of in-vitro conception to be tossed into the fertility clinic wastebasket instead of being used to reasearch cures for currently incurable diseases and injuries.

Meanwhile, post-birth, non-American, non-Republican, and non-wealthy life can be sacrificed and/or degraded to serve the greater good of the ideology that came up with this stellar set of priorities.

and pass the Port...

It seems that the whole farce is based on an song and a prayer.And than there there were disasters, the last one called Walter Reed.

they don't serve humble pie at those breakfast meetings....

First, could we have a retroactive group freakout about Bill Clinton saying this at a prayer breakfast in 1993?

We need faith as a source of strength. "The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things unseen," the Scripture says.

Now, if Tim wanted to highlight Bush's unfathomable vacancy, he should have published this quote:

One of the reasons that I am such a strong believer in the power of our faith-based institutions is that they add something the government never can, and that is love.

One supports government programs that make their country a better place to live because they love their country and their countrymen.

My prayer is that Presidunce Gomer choke on a link sausage.

BTW- Here's the Official Prayer of the Bush maladministration: "Let Us Prey."

...unless prayer breakfasts are intrinsically funny, or we must be reminded endlessly of Bush's evangelicalism (but a Catholic prayer breakfast? A Sunday "Pancake Breakfast" fundraiser, sure, but since when do Catholics do prayer breakfasts).

There is an old Zippy the Pinhead strip (Reagan-era I think) where Zippy is at a prayer breakfast and explains that he is praying for a power lunch. That is at least chuckle-level funny, and probably should have been left as the final attempt to derive humor from prayer breakfasts.

Pray and slay

This morning's paper contained an articele about the death of a GI in Iraq. Twice wounded, he was returned for a third tour of duty. His second wound, in the jaw, left him without any teeth. Evidently that wasn't sacrifice enough. George, pray for forgiveness.

Nita, we need more sacrilege, much more.