Rabble rousing Repubs...

[jensieblue]

Has anyone involved in leadership for the Republicans spoken out concerning the grossly inappropriate behavior of the repub base???? There have been incidents of death threats, ugly, ugly name calling and spitting on legislators voting for health care. This is an ugly ugly face of the party. Is this truly how Repblicans want their party to be represented to the public??? When you work so hard at rousing the rabble, you become responsible for their actions. You do know who you are dealing with here, don't you????

 

[AndrewG]

You mean they haven't started bombing the Pentagon and Capitol Hill yet? Didn't Bill Ayers just say on Alan Colmes show that he wasn't sorry for doing it?

I hope those supporting the liberties provided under the Constitution don't get violent. It will hurt their cause. Always has always will.

 

[LuciferSam]

Has anyone involved in leadership for the Republicans spoken out concerning the grossly inappropriate behavior of the repub base???? There have been incidents of death threats, ugly, ugly name calling and spitting on legislators voting for health care. This is an ugly ugly face of the party. Is this truly how Repblicans want their party to be represented to the public??? When you work so hard at rousing the rabble, you become responsible for their actions. You do know who you are dealing with here, don't you????

The Republicans will have to deviate from their normal behavior before anyone takes notice.

 

[Here4Good]

You mean they haven't started bombing the Pentagon and Capitol Hill yet? Didn't Bill Ayers just say on Alan Colmes show that he wasn't sorry for doing it?

That's the entire excuse? "They did it first"? Did that work with your Mom, because it sure didn't work with mine.

 

[LuciferSam]

You mean they haven't started bombing the Pentagon and Capitol Hill yet? Didn't Bill Ayers just say on Alan Colmes show that he wasn't sorry for doing it?

I hope those supporting the liberties provided under the Constitution don't get violent. It will hurt their cause. Always has always will.

Ayers didn't represent the mainstream. Not only that, the right wing version of Ayers would have deliberately killed hundred of innocent victims, tried to become a martyr, and then demanded to be put to death. That's the Republican definition of dignity.

 

[30ashopper]

Ayers didn't represent the mainstream. Not only that, the right wing version of Ayers would have deliberately killed hundred of innocent victims, tried to become a martyr, and then demanded to be put to death. That's the Republican definition of dignity.

Yes, now lets try to apply that logic here as well. I've read a few reports, none of which were substantiated. In country of 310 million, you're bound to get a few crazies involved in politics. Just look at Congress.

 

[LuciferSam]

Yes, now lets try to apply that logic here as well. I've read a few reports, none of which were substantiated. In country of 310 million, you're bound to get a few crazies involved in politics. Just look at Congress.

It just seems like angry Democrats are more about name calling and angry Republicans are more about stone throwing. I think they need to slow down, lose some weight, put some sunburn medication on their necks, have a martini and chill. I really think some are more upset over some misguided perception of cultural upheaval than about the particulars of this bill. Yes, racism is definitely a major part of it in a significant number of cases.

 

[GoodWitch58]

It just seems like angry Democrats are more about name calling and angry Republicans are more about stone throwing. .l. I really think some are more upset over some misguided perception of cultural upheaval than about the particulars of this bill. Yes, racism is definitely a major part of it in a significant number of cases.

Commentary: Tea Party proves me right on racism | McClatchy

Often we tell ourselves lies to spare ourselves truths. Had you asked them, the people who locked John Lewis inside that restaurant, the ones who mauled him at that bus station and smashed him down on that bridge, would not have said they acted from a rottenness within.

No, like the ones who called him "******" half a century later, they would have told you they were good people fighting for principle, trying to save this country from the liberals, the socialists and the communists.

They would not have said they were racists. Racists never do.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald,

For some of us who lived through the horror of the Civil Rights movement, this is a sad reminder that it only takes one person spewing hate, to set off a firestorm that takes on a life of its own, and then leaves destruction in its wake. Hateful words once spoken, can not be taken back; one can not unring a bell--.

I have to ask, is this what we have come to, that we allow a for profit enterprise like Fox News to employ people who encite citizens to rock throwing and name calling...do we really think it is okay for the former governor of Alaska to put members of Congress or anyone else in the crosshairs of a gun...and as one of the Members of Congress said the other day, how can we expect our children to have any respect for laws that we pass against bullying in the schools, when the leadership of the Republican Party stands on the floor of the House of Representatives and says about a colleague: he is a dead man...is this really what we have come to in this country; and all because of politics?

FWIW, I think it is time we all wrote to our representatives in both Washington and Tallahassee (and whatever other state Capitol is appropriate) and tell them to grow up and act like role models for our children, or to leave, because they obviously can't handle the job!

 

[Linda]

It just seems like angry Democrats are more about name calling and angry Republicans are more about stone throwing. I think they need to slow down, lose some weight, put some sunburn medication on their necks, have a martini and chill. I really think some are more upset over some misguided perception of cultural upheaval than about the particulars of this bill. Yes, racism is definitely a major part of it in a significant number of cases.

Eric Cantor - republican minority whip - had gun shots fired through his office window this week. There are loons on both sides.

Eric Cantor Says Bullet Shot Through His Office Window This Week - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

 

[LuciferSam]

Eric Cantor - republican minority whip - had gun shots fired through his office window this week. There are loons on both sides.

Eric Cantor Says Bullet Shot Through His Office Window This Week - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

Probably a teabagger with the wrong address.