amount of time. I can imagine she is likely sleep-deprived, probably couldn't pay the bills...many in DC as elsewhere, live above their means...her husband is self-employed...living paycheck to paycheck like many.

Crazed House ranter: "God made me do it" -- Husband: “I am proud of her.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023873017

it's only $50,000 less than a Senator. Somebody replied...which Senator got her the job?

So she says she had "reluctance and doubt" yet did not share this with anyone? Perhaps fox will hire her and hope 'the spirit' doesn't tell her to stray off script on live TV.

Who else would a level-headed woman of God [sic] go to when the Holy Spirit starts talking to her in the middle of the night, and telling her to do something she doesn't really want to do?

We'll probably never know.

IIRC, that's also an automatic 72 hour hold.

I think it's pretty evident that she's got some kind of mental problem going on.

the list of side effects is very long on those common mental health drugs.

She's obviously in need of some kind of psychotic meds. What she did isn't a result of paranoia, and frankly, I don't know of any rx mental health drugs that have paranoia as a side effect.

Pentecostals are bat-shit-crazy! And that's all I got to say about that.

Hearing any voices, especially if you took the shitty advice they gave you, used to be an automatic trip to the state loony bin and a rear end full of Thorazine.

The state loony bins are gone, alas, so she's lucky to get a 72 hour evaluation, with or without the drugs that make her voices go away.

and so does everyone around her...

and she'd go back to pretending like all the other people in her church.

If something was on her mind and that kept her up at night, that wouldn't be evidence of a disorder. But if she heard the Holy Spirit's voice speaking to her like it was a person in the room with her, then she is likely schizophrenic or bipolar. Most of us would end up on psych meds if we heard voices, but I suspect that she wouldn't take them, and her husband sounds like someone who either believes she's hearing God or has psychological issues of his own. But she could just be a fundy who's trying to get attention.

laying on of hands instead of medical treatment and some handle snakes...because God commands them thusly

"She though God was speaking to her but it turns out she was sleeping with the AM radio on."

I don't understand how she could possibly keep her job after that little performance.

She clearly isn't in her right mind and incapable of handling the job. Frankly, someone that has such a break with reality that they disrupt Congress with shouted religious word salad isn't competent to hold the job mental health problem or not. She'll never be allowed to step foot in any government building again.

For being ill...

How progressive of you...

Me, I wish her a speedy recovery. ...

Yes, she's ill and needs help. And no, she can't handle the job. That's obvious. If she's able to recover enough to be able to handle it great, but the fact remains that there's no way that anyone in Congress will ever trust that she's cured if she even can be which I seriously doubt. People that display unhinged breaks from reality aren't allowed anywhere near anyone in government, and they shouldn't be for obvious reasons. That doesn't mean that at some time in the future she can't hold a job, perhaps she could, but certainly not around people in power and not one with so much pressure nor public exposure.

since she clearly has her OWN political agenda that runs counter to the interests of this country.

Fire the woman, regardless of why she did this.

Mentally ill amd responds well to treatment she should be fired in your world??????



That's pretty cold amd uncaring.

in some tiny little law office in Podunk, IA, where she isn't a threat to the workings of our federal government.

She is just a stenographer...... if her past performance has been good I can't support firing her for a.medical problem.

essential government services and elected officials.

And she clearly doesn't care about the law or other people's right to a functioning government.

You can't just toss good employees away like trash. from what I've read she is well liked by many people there.

I never heard anymore about it. Look at all the members of congress who get up on a podium and seriously state that God speaks to them and they still have their jobs. She may be ill or she may have an agenda. Hard to tell anymore.

The way it appears now, the woman is unwell.

She believes that Biblical Law takes precedence over the Constitution.

That's a fairly mainstream view in some circles. For instance, doesn't Michelle Bachman espouse this kind of thing?

It just makes you wonder why she was working in the Capitol if that was her opinion.

she wasn't elected to office like Bachman......sigh

have been working on for decades.

Ready to step up and help keep the new theocracy going after the coup.

Most of us endure and hang on to our wits by tuning out the ravings emanating from the People's House. That poor woman had to transcribe it all, word for lunatic word.

It's a wonder that anybody noticed her rants in that snakepit..(referring to the movie, not actual snakes who don't bother nobody)

The people and the corporations. She's half right.

In translating her word salad eruption she has a problem with serving the Constitution because she believes it was all written by Freemasons... and in her unhinged religious world Freemasons were/are Satan worshipers.

"You may need medical supervision. You may be dangerous to yourself or others."

"It was the holy spirit."

"You are free to go. Bless you sister."

loony toon idiots

better quarantine her & Bachmann. They can both be on the same ward--there's nothing more they can catch from each other.