Dems skip prayer breakfast over Republican invited to speak: Randy "Baby Killer" Neugebauer

[Amerigo Vespucci]

"An' Neugey, yer doin' a heck of a job."

Dems skip prayer breakfast over ‘baby killer’ heckler’s speech

By Ron Brynaert
Friday, March 26th, 2010 -- 11:55 am

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0326/dems-skip-prayer-breakfast-baby-killer-hecklers-speech/

Who could have possibly guessed that Democrats would get upset over the latest GOP tar baby trap?

"Even the Congressional Prayer Breakfast isn't safe from the poisonous partisan atmosphere gripping the Capitol," Steven T. Dennis reports for Roll Call.

Democrats walked out of the breakfast Thursday morning after Republicans invited Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas), who screamed "baby killer" while Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was speaking Sunday night during the health care debate, to speak at the breakfast.

Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-Ohio), who is co-chairman of the bipartisan breakfast, and Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), who co-chaired the breakfast last year, ripped Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) for inviting Neugebauer to speak at the breakfast.

"Your last minute invitation to Rep. Randy Neugebauer to address our group at this morning's breakfast was not only irresponsible, but politically tone-deaf," they wrote in a letter to Akin. "The weekly breakfast should lift us all up, rather than purposefully tear some of us down."

[immoderate]

1. Too bad. Nothing fails like prayer.

--imm

[walldude]

2. Why the fuck is there a Congressional Prayer Breakfast anyway?

Ever heard of the separation of Church and State?

[SharonAnn]

4. Isn't that one of the things sponsored by "The Family"?

[Bitwit1234]

3. This atmosphere of hate and violence just

one more thing the bush administration has left us with.

[spanone]

5. good...i want some pissed off democrats in d.c. representing US