WA: Repub leader apologizes for Holocaust remarks during stem cell debate

[rainbow4321]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA+XGR+Holocaust+Remarks

State House Minority Leader Bruce Chandler apologized Friday for remarks other Republicans made earlier in the week comparing embryonic stem cell research to the Holocaust.

"The references made to the Holocaust were regarded by some, understandably, as insensitive and inappropriate," Chandler, R-Granger, said on the House floor.

Schual-Berke's bill passed by a vote of 59-36 in the House after an emotional, sometimes tearful debate late Tuesday night. A couple of Republican representatives - not Chandler - referred very obliquely to the Holocaust, but Rep. Glenn Anderson, R-Fall City, drew the most direct comparison.

"Life sciences, biotech research - it sounds warm, sounds progressive. The potential is there, we hope, we're betting on it," Anderson said Tuesday on the House floor. "But the cold look of history really does require sobriety. Sixty years ago in Nazi Germany, it was state policy in order to perfect humanity it would be required to destroy humanity. And the medical experiments at Auschwitz were carried out for that explicit purpose. We all say no, that's not us, that would never happen, that's not why we're doing this."

[NVMojo]

1. The Repricks are out of control and I hope they get worse and worse!!

Maybe then, the average citizen who gave these jerks a MANDATE will wake up!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. I hope the GOP implodes like the Nazis(Third Reich) did.

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. For all of our reputation as a "liberal state"

...the reality is that our right wingers are some of the most extreme on the planet, and Brucie is no exception.

Just to give you an idea of how stupid they can get, a few years back one of the state senators proposed an "English as the official language" bill. His rationalization for the bill - and no, I'm not making this up:

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the State of Washington!!"

So far, I haven't seen any state documents in Aramaic yet ;)