Mary Fallin is the Governor of Oklahoma and a formerrepresentative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district, and damn if she isn’tquite insane. Fallin is a staunch creationist and is on the recordexpressing a preference for religion over science (but so is her last Democratic opponent Jarl Askins). And of course you presumablyseewhere this is going for education in Oklahoma.

In 2011 Fallin responded to a heat wave sweeping her statebyasking citizens to seek divine intervention:“The power of prayer is a wonderful thing, and I would ask every Oklahoman tolook to a greater power this weekend and ask for rain,” she said in a mannerworthy of Rick Perry. It didn’t have any measurable effect, but does tell youquite a bit about a certain group of politician’s attempt to find solutions to theordeals facing their constituencies. Indeed, one would think that theOklahomans who believed this measure to be effective had already prayed forrain, making Fallin’s urge doubly idiotic.