Senate session starts with prayer: ‘Our economy sucks’
by Dara Kam | March 31st, 2010The Rev. Don Roberts, the president of Goodwill Industries Manasota in Sarasota, kicked off the Senate’s budget debate this morning with a somewhat tongue-in-cheek prayer that included the observation that “our economy sucks.”
The funny preacher has cracked up Senators with the prayer dating back to former Senate President John McKay’s tenure at the podium beginning in 2000.
“In this session, some of our bills have suffered the death of avenging angels, some of our bills remain hung upon a cross, some of our bills will never leave the darkness of their committee’s burial cave and some of our bills will experience the miracle of a resurrection. For such is the process we call politics, Lord,” Roberts said.
He also took a swipe at Gov. Charlie Crist, who has tried to assume a more conservative posture in his U.S. Senate race against former House Speaker Marco Rubio: “Gov. Crist marches to the right in an attempt to be right; experiencing your divine wisdom that you cannot be right and in relationship at the same time.”
And Roberts criticized the tax system that “remains mired in 19th century purgatory with no clear consensus on how to get out of this mess.”
Overall, the reverend noted, “Our economy sucks, if you will excuse the expression Lord, and like all the families in Florida we are trying to figure out how to pay the bills. Other than that Lord, this session is turning out to be just more fun than any legislator can stand.”
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March 31st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Our economy sucks because we have lousy leaders like Crist and Rubio. Politicians like to refer to this economic downturn as if it is an act of God rather than the result of bad decisions made by leaders in government and business. But the people have a right to expect our leaders to protect us from such man-made disasters, and this our leaders have consistently failed to do. Crist and Rubio are now running for the Senate, but neither man can truthfully point to anything he’s done that has improved the quality of life for people in this state. Both men are failures.