The prayer breakfast is a display of power for an underground religious group that often shapes U.S. foreign policy in ways that sometimes conflict with our policy goals.
Responding to AlterNet's story on the role in opposing health-care reform of senators affiliated with a secretive right-wing religious group, Coburn's spokesman talks compassion.
To quiet down a staffer whose wife he was shagging, Republican Sen. John Ensign got the guy a lobbying job -- a job lobbying his own office -- and then did favors for his clients.
