Health-Care Reform Fallout
fishmongerfunk
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is it any surprise that when elected politician's are saying things like "baby killer" and "Armageddon" they get a reaction like this?
and this is what we call being an apologist:Lawmakers concerned as health-care overhaul foes resort to violenceBy Philip RuckerWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, March 25, 2010; A01The pitched battle over health care has unleashed a rash of vandalism and attacks directed at politicians, with at least 10 House Democrats reporting death threats or incidents of harassment or vandalism at their district offices over the past week.More than 100 House Democrats met behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon with representatives of the FBI and the U.S. Capitol Police. The lawmakers voiced what one senior aide who was present described as "serious concern" about their security in Washington and in their home districts when they return this weekend for the spring recess.Usually only the congressional leadership has regular personal protection from the Capitol Police. But at least 10 lawmakers have been offered increased protection by law enforcement agencies, said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.).Asked whether members are endangered, Hoyer said: "Yes. [There are] very serious incidents that have occurred."Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer e-mailed senators and staffers Wednesday telling them to "remain vigilant." Gainer, a former Capitol Police chief, said in an interview that the warning was meant to "assuage people's fears."But House Democrats say they are unnerved."Our democracy is about participation," Hoyer said. "Our democracy is about differing and debate and animated debate and passionate debate. But it is not about violence."The vandalism began last weekend, when the House debated the health bill for final passage. In Wichita, someone broke the window of a county Democratic Party headquarters with a brick that had "No to Obama" and "No ObamyCare" written on it. Lyndsey Stauble, executive director of the Sedgwick County Democratic Party, said she went to work Saturday morning to clean up the shattered glass around her desk."It was surprising and alarming to know that people, when they have so many opportunities for expression in this country, that somebody would resort to a brick," Stauble said.Over the next 24 hours, thrown bricks shattered the glass doors and windows of party headquarters from Rochester, N.Y., to Cincinnati. A propane gas line at the Charlottesville home of Rep. Tom Perriello's brother was severed Tuesday after a self-identified "tea party" activist posted what he believed to be the Virginia Democrat's address on a Web site and urged opponents to "drop by" to convey their opposition to his yes vote on the health bill.A brick was thrown through the Niagara Falls district office of Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), who also received a threatening voice-mail message referring to sniper attacks. The front door to the Tucson district office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shattered. And Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), whose last-minute negotiations to bar federal funding of abortion helped secure the bill's passage, received a fax with a drawing of a noose and an anonymous voice mail saying: "You're dead. We know where you live. We'll get you."In Washington on Wednesday, the attacks were roundly condemned, with some congressional leaders wondering whether the long fight over health care had unleashed an ugly dimension to the modern political discourse."If we fail to learn the lessons of our history, we are bound to repeat them," said House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.). "I think all of us learned some great lessons from the '60s and '70s, and there are some lessons that none of us want to repeat, but one thing we know, as Steny Hoyer said, 'Silence is consent.' "House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) called the incidents unacceptable."I know many Americans are angry over this health-care bill, and that Washington Democrats just aren't listening," Boehner told Fox News Channel. "But, as I've said, violence and threats are unacceptable. That's not the American way. We need to take that anger and channel it into positive change. Call your congressman, go out and register people to vote, go volunteer on a political campaign, make your voice heard -- but let's do it the right way."Some Democrats, sensing a political opportunity, suggested that Republicans were fanning the anger with their fiery comments in recent days. Several GOP lawmakers stood on the speaker's balcony at the Capitol overlooking a tea party protest last weekend holding up signs that read "Kill the Bill." Below them, protesters were yelling "No! No! No!" and, referring to the House speaker, "Nancy, you will burn in hell for this!"One of the more threatening incidents involved Perriello, whose older brother, Bo, came home Tuesday and smelled gas in the house. He discovered that a line to a propane tank on a gas grill in his yard had been cut. A threatening letter was also sent to the home that day. Federal and local authorities were investigating the incident."While it is too early to say anything definitive regarding political motivations behind this act, it's never too early for political leaders to condemn threats of violence, particularly as threats to other members of Congress and their children escalate,'' Perriello, a freshman who faces a tough reelection fight, said in a statement. "And so I ask every member of House and Senate leadership to state unequivocally tonight that it is never OK to harm or threaten elected officials and their families with anything more than political retribution. Here in America, we settle our political differences at the ballot box."Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, both Republicans, condemned the vandalism and threats. Cuccinelli, who has become a conservative folk hero for filing suit over the health-care law, said that the severing of the gas line was "absolutely, totally unacceptable" and that posting Perriello's address online was "way over the line."Some of the vandalism appears to have been instigated by an Alabama blogger, Mike Vanderboegh, who encouraged his readers to throw bricks at the windows of Democratic headquarters across the country. Vanderboegh, a former leader of the Alabama Constitutional Militia who is headlining an open-carry gun rally in Northern Virginia next month, issued a call to the modern "Sons of Liberty" on his libertarian political blog to break windows nationwide to display opposition to health-care reform.A vandal threw a brick into the glass doors at the Monroe County Democratic Committee's headquarters in Rochester overnight Saturday, attaching a note that quoted Barry Goldwater: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice."Vanderboegh did not respond to questions Wednesday from The Washington Post, but he took credit for the incident in an interview earlier this week with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. "I guess that guy's one of ours," he told the newspaper. "Glad to know people read my blog."Staff writers Ann Gerhart, Paul Kane, Anita Kumar and Rosalind S. Helderman and research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report.
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*who lives off a social security disability check
And this is what we call being a lying pussy:
All that stuff that has happened? Totally didn't happen. And if it did happen, it was liberals pretending to be wingers, so hahahaha, suck it, stoopid LIEbruls!
I concur. Let these morons wind themselves up and wear themselves out. Once most Americans realize these new laws just make it harder for Health Insurers to do shady shit like drop you when you get sick (and do not add up to a nanny state or huge tax increases), these Tea Bag idiots will look like just another bunch of Anti-abortion wingnuts.
"Get off our property!"
Silly bunch of shit. It was hard to fake the video of Emanuel Cleaver being spat on or the dude with Parkinson's being taunted. If there is, in fact, a conspiracy by an outside group to make the Republican Tea Baggers look like violent hysterical fools, it's coming from the Larouche people--not Democrats.
Republicans last run gave us War, Defecit, foreign policy disasters, Enron, Halliburton, Blackwater, Financial crisis etc...
the protests against the war and the Bush admin. were some of the biggest the world has ever seen and were remarkably peacefull.
bush was quoted as saying "i dont pay attention to focus groups"
The Democrats want to provide healthcare for the citizens of the country they govern and the Right wing is already getting violent.
THE F*ck IS WRONG WITH YOUR COUNTRY?
This stupid game of good cop-bad cop is the answer, among others.
By David Gardner
Americans who suggest Barack Obama should rot in hell are apparently deadly serious.
Nearly a quarter of Republicans believe the Democrat president 'may be the Antichrist', according to a survey.
An even greater number compared him to Hitler.
Mr Obama was jubilant this week after securing his ?626billion healthcare reform plan.
But his triumph seems only to have inflamed his critics among the evangelical Christians from America's heartland who kept George Bush in power for eight years and have demonised his successor.
More than half of the Republicans quizzed by Harris Poll, 57 per cent, believed the president was secretly Muslim, something he has consistently denied.
And 67 per cent of Republicans who responded believed Obama was a socialist, despite his central leanings.
The startling results came as lawyers representing 14 U.S. states filed lawsuits yesterday challenging an overhaul of the country's $2.5trillion healthcare system, minutes after President Barack Obama signed the landmark legislation.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew...l#ixzz0jEdexFBe
My goodness, some Americans are truly dumb, easily-led, blind sheep. Also, I thought the GOP was about family values, so what's with the violence?
David "He really is my campaign manager" Dreier
Mark "I love male pages" Foley
Larry "Wide Stance" Craig
Jim "I'm not gay I have a wife" McCrery
Charlie "I walk around with hot babes so I'm not gay" Crist.
What a bunch of lying, f*cking hypocrites!!!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
The South, basically.
They want their slaves back.
WHAT-THE-FUSK-EVER.
Do you sanctimonious fuskers even bother to think anymore? Or do you just pick up on who you're supposed to hate the same way the people you hate do...from stereotypes gleemed from watching 12-second clips on your boob tube?
Yes, America is still filled with racist dumbshits. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. But are they exclusive to the South? Or the Republican Party for that matter?
HARDLY!
Plus, if y'all dislike the South so much, I have some sage advice for you: STOP RELOCATING DOWN HERE IN MASS!
Where do you live?
fixed.
I caught this flipping channels in a hotel last night; supremely uncomfortable.
You know you're pretty sad when Steve Douchey has bring you back to reality.
Eric Cantor, lying sack of shit
It wasn't me.
Texas is still fucked though.