In God We Trust

I'm sorry to keep inflicting you guys with the products of my masochistic forays into the right-wing blogosphere. I realize it's like David Gest's plastic head, turned up to 11. But this shit is really creeping me out:

Ghostly bare-headed Lincoln and Washington laying on hands? WTF? And the whole site is creepy, but this is the best part:

ADDITIONAL LEADERS TO PRAY FOR THIS WEEK

Secretary of Energy—Spencer Abraham

Secretary of Labor—Elaine Chao

Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—Robert S. Mueller, III

Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Acting Director of FEMA—Michael D. Brown

I'm trying to get my head around praying to God on behalf of the Undersecretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response. What, like, after you've already prayed for the president, and Dick Cheney, and lotsa other officials, but you've got some prayers left over, why not pray for Elaine Chao? Are there specific saints we should be invoking here? Is there a patron saint of Undersecretaries? (Yes, yes, I realize these are nutball Protestants, but no doubt they hope to appeal to nutball Catholics as well.) Looks like St. Thomas More, patron Saint of Civil Servants (and Lawyers). (Oh, hey, St. Sebastian is patron Saint of Cranky Children? I gotta remember that. Get that saint some candles, yo! We need all manner of intercession up in here!)

Comments

[Kip Manley]

Creepier still to pull into a parking space at the Home Depot next to a Cadillac and realize as you're getting out that there's a Presidential Prayer Team sticker on the windshield.

In cyberspace, it could just be a hoax...

[Gary Farber]

Tsk; you could have read about this more than a month ago.

I shall pray for you.

[belle waring]

man, Gary, how come I keep stealing your posts? I gotta read your blog more regularly. we're obviously twins or something.

[Gary Farber]

Prayer works wonders!

Truly, wise you grow, my sister. Yet, wiser still, grow you may yet. Use the b******l; it is your destiny.

[Kevin Donoghue]

Is there any principle at work in the choice of officials for whom one should pray? Is it the kiss of death? A priest in my home town used to ask his parishioners, from time to time, to pray that God would grant wisdom to one or other of the local politicians - the implication being that he had departed from the straight-and-narrow.

Is that the idea here? Notice that the officials listed have to deal with environmentalists, trades unionists and criminals. Ample scope for corrupting influence there, while hurricanes could presumably tempt one into the sin of despair.

I see that Paul Wolfowitz has now been added. Grant us oh Lord, that Wolfie gets a job he knows something about fairly soon.