Oklahoma’s Senator-Elect to Use ‘Biblical Worldview’ to Defeat the National Debt

[NordicLeft]

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/oklahomas-senator-elect-use-biblical-worldview-defeat-national-debt


Oklahoma Senator-elect James Lankford says his “biblical worldview” will guide his actions in the upper chamber.

“Budget, for me, is still a huge area. The people have started to step back and say, ‘Well, our deficit is only $480 billion now so we are doing much better in deficit.’ We still have $480 billion. That’s a big deal,” the Republican congressman and Baptist minister told Family Research Council president Tony Perkins on Wednesday.

“I come from a biblical worldview in the way I address issues,” Lankford said. “I look at Nehemiah and how he handled things when he stepped into Jerusalem. It was that the people were in disgrace and the wall was broken down, but the two things that he focused in on was the constructive side of things and the debt. Half of the Book of Nehemiah is just getting the people out of debt, so they could actually take on the other things.”

Lankford added that people should pray as much as they complain. “We can’t handle national defense right now, we can’t handle a lot of things that we need to and that need to be driven by the states because we have so much debt… We have proved that our nation really is slave to the lender.”


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[SamKnause]

1. The insanity continues.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. We just have to wait and see...

if he raises taxes on the wealthy to help pay down the debt and supports debt amnesty for college loans.

(Yeah, right..._

[exboyfil]

3. So when his he going to pass laws about

the Jubilee? Debt forgiveness and no poor among you.

[longship]

4. GOP == theocratic lunatics.

They tend to keep the message sotto voce, but when they witness to their own they tip their hand. They are ideologues who cannot help themselves.

Religious lunacy is rampant in the GOP. The sooner we all realize this, the better.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Teabaggers are full on Theocrats.

Convert, or die.

[tanyev]

6. Cut taxes, deficit spend, and pray to God the Democrats will eventually fix it.

[yuiyoshida]

7. I love how the Republicans say the American

People stand with them. No, they don't ..MOST don't care whats going on in Washington DC. Most have better things to do than pay attention to politics.. Most would rather turn on Monday Night Football than watch an important debate.

But hey, Republicans can lie about what ever they want, cause Fox News will do that every day.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. OK shares a border with KS (Kochistan), so when they both go bankrupt ...

we can just build an alligator-filled moat around both of them.

[LibertyLover]

9. Why is it that religious nutjobs, in the government or not,

all have the same weird, crazy eyes. If you look at this guy's official photo (you need to click on the article) he's got the same crazy, popped eyes that Michelle Bachmann has.

[hobbit709]

10. So he admits he's going to violate his oath of office before he's even sworn in.

[LeftinOH]

11. Cleancut image + Xtian jibberjabber = An easy win!

It doesn't take much to get people to vote for a particular candidate, especially in his neck of the woods.