GO FRANK.
Senator Lautenberg asked Bill Frist to condemn Pat Robertson's recent comments claiming America's judges are worse than terrorists according to Raw Story. The Senator also sent a letter to Robertson demanding an apology.
Frank Lautenberg is doing what needs to be done. Bill Frist IS responsible for the anti-judge climate that has become pervasive among the right wing radicals. Frist is fanning the flames. And he is doing nothing, nothing at all to stop the hate and violence filled vitriol aimed at the judiciary.
The letters from Lautenberg are powerful. RawStory has the full text. This blurb gives the flavor:
In the letter, obtained by RAW STORY, Lautenberg says he was shocked at Robertson's remarks.Frist will never condemn Robertson's remarks. He is fanning the flames of the hate speech. And, Frist and the GOP caucus have become a wholly owned subsidiary of the radicals like Robertson.
“It was shocking to hear your cavalier dismissal of the atrocious 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by describing them as “a few bearded terrorists who fly planes into buildings,” wrote Lautenberg in his letter to Reverend Robertson. Lautenberg went on to write, “To suggest that members of the federal judiciary are somehow in the same class as “a few bearded terrorists” is an assault on the men and women on the federal bench who safeguard our rights under the Constitution everyday.”
In a separate letter to Sen. Majority Leader Frist, Lautenberg asks Frist to condemn Robertson's comments.
“I hope you will join me in condemning such harmful and heated language and call on Reverend Robertson to publicly apologize to every family who has lost a loved one to terrorism. Your silence on this matter would send a resounding signal to the entire country that the radical right controls the leadership of the Republican Party,” Lautenberg wrote in his letter to Majority Leader Frist.
The theocrats are such nasty haters -- all in the name of God, of course.
