Senators Slam Republican Party for Bible Pamphlet

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. senators from the electoral battleground states of West Virginia and Arkansas slammed the Republican National Committee on Thursday for a pamphlet that suggested liberals would ban the Bible.
"Two weeks ago, the Republican National Committee sent a mass mailing to West Virginians suggesting that liberals -- in other words, everyone but Republicans -- are out to ban the Bible," Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, said on the Senate floor.

"What a ridiculous claim! It is a flat-out, no-doubt-about-it, silly, sophomoric charge," Byrd said. "The Republican National Committee is spreading this tripe to smear Democrats, and the president ought to demand that the Republican National Committee apologize to the people of West Virginia."

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat from Arkansas, said the same mailing was sent to Arkansans.

"I hope that there will be an apology for their claims that Democrats want to ban the Bible and the inference that Democrats for some reason cannot have a faith as close or as deeply held as the other party," Lincoln said on the Senate floor. "I find that to be the pit, the absolute bottom of what is wrong in the political process."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6382686&src=rss/ElectionCoverage§ion=news

[Gman]

1. Silly Ms Lincoln...

that's no where near the bottom. We still have a very long way to fall before we even start getting anywhere near close to the bottom.

[luaneryder]

5. She was outstanding on CSPAN today! n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I wrote a LTTE

to my local weekly paper. The jist was that I was mad that some city slickers from the Coast seemed to think we were stupid enough to believe an outrageous lie...and if the GOP were lying about this, what else were they lying about?

BTW, Blanche Lincoln will win easily, imho, so I don't understand why they tried this mailing here in AR....

[Rose Siding]

6. Those are great points for a LTTE

Nice job.

[lovuian]

3. Democrats are Heathens

Didn't you know that!!!

Its the same mentality that killed Protestants and Catholics

Jews and other nations

Label them and mark them and get rid of them .....

we are not tolerant of any other religion than ours

[Tansy_Gold]

4. There will be no apology from the pukes, but if there were

it should be mailed out, at GOP expense, to every person to whom they sent the original mailing. And it should say, in large, easy-to-read letters:

"Forgive us, for we have sinned. We have broken one of the ten commandments: we have borne false witness. In other words, WE HAVE LIED. Liberals and Democrats are NOT going to ban the Bible. We Republicans, on the other hand, would like to ban the reading of everything. We would like to defund public education so only the rich folks will be able to send their children to private schools and learn to read. That is what Republicans are really about -- protecting the rich and screwing the poor. If you really want to protect your right to read the Bible, VOTE DEMOCRATIC."

Like everyone else, I can dream, can't I?

[goforit]

7. One flew over the kookoo's nest..................Absolutely INSANE!!!!

[camero]

8. Repubs wanna ban the New Testament

You know, the chapters of Jesus' teachings and Timothy saying the love of money being the root of all evil.

[young_at_heart]

9. We truly have entered "The Twilight Zone" !

Banning the Bible sounds like something you'd hear during the Middle Ages, not 2004!

[w4rma]

10. Look at THIS headline. "Bible pamphlet". If you were a fundie you might

read the headline only and think that Dems were angry that the GOP had put out a pamphlet about the bible.

This headline is written to keep those folks confused.