They are sending out solicitations for donations citing the violence of opponents of obamacare. Sounds like political gain to me.

I thought, although there was an ideological divide, that, like McConnell, McCain, et al, we could work through that divide towards compromise, that there were some honorable Democrats, that not all of them were liars of the highest order.

Since 2006, I’ve come to see the errors in that kind of thinking and the longer the Dems talk the more disgusting they become to me and this is a classic example why.

And then they wonder why a majority of the people in this country doesn’t trust them or support their policies. If it weren’t for union thugs they would have no support.

Sounds mysteriously like the diplomatic double talk after the Archduke was shot.

As though once bad laws are passed, we should be required to just suck it up and deal with it.

I deplore violence, but I moreso deplore Woodhouse’s response to Cantor.

They do it so damned blatantly! Like no one with any common sense could ever see through a layer of bulls*** this thick!

It’s infuriating. It’s damn close to criminal.

There is no longer just an “ideological” difference between us anymore. They are our enemy. They have made this clear since 2001. I’m glad people are finally waking up to this. These people have no compassion or sympathy for us. They wish us harm, in any way possible. How many liberals did you know that snapped their fingers and said, “Damn, that close. Almost got him” as soon as they heard about Bush and his pretzel incident? The books and movie detailing an assassination of Bush? Where were the Democrats worried about the “hate and violence circulating in the political atmosphere”? They didn’t care. They loved it

The Democrats are a travesty. They are enemies of America and her people. They need to be taken out in November and never be allowed to enter the hallowed halls of our places of government again. They have made it clear they have no place in this country anymore.

Seems to me we can go back and find incident after incident- some in the handwriting of DNC members and supportive blogs, that underwrote specious and false attacks against the former President and VP. That deliberate propaganda process “mischaracterized” the debate and provoked angry responses by their members and terrorists who were encouraged by their despicable dialogue. Combine that with releasing classified documents to the NY Times and I say they did a bang up job of getting a bunch of American’s killed.

Fact of the matter is thus; there is significant substance to back up the arguments against the health care bill. Americans knew it, Democrats ignored it. Now they want to try and deflect that anger by largely making up or overstating the incidents. Is that about right?

Frankly, I think they should keep this up for another 8 months. It is really a great motivator to move these lying, undemocratic, oligarchic losers out of DC.

Nah, can’t say that, even though it’s true. That would be “charged rhetoric.” Bad RedBeard. Bad.

All hail Barack Obama, the Great Unifier.

The Dems don’t like it that their non-health care bill is a piece of junk. They get very offended when people quote the devestatingly bad things – right from the text of the bill. To them, people should not be allowed to quote from the bill. All they should be allowed to do is talk about imaginary unicorn dust and fake it that the bill is good.

The people of the U.S. CAN”T STAND the content of this non-health care bill and they can’t stand what it will lead to. So when people rightfully speak out against this Obamination of a bill, the Dems want to censor their free speech, fabricate lies, and condone violence – as long as it is directed agasint a Republican or any conservative.

It’s no accident that the Dems are behaving this way regarding the non-health care bill. Their behavior here reflects the entire reason they wrote the bill to begin with – destroy the U.S. constitution and remove all American freedoms. To them, THEIR method is much better – progressive communism starting with socialized mandated DemonCare. For the Dems, It’s fine to trash the Constitution… but how DARE ANYONE question their progressive communism!!!

Thank God it “appears” that the GOP House is starting to get this and get clear that the ONLY thing they should be doing is fighting…and fighting hard.
And the Senate???

… whoever shot the bullet they found wasn’t aiming at the building.

From the police press release http://bit.ly/bQZ7on :

“A preliminary investigation shows that a bullet was fired into the air and struck the window in a downward direction, landing on the floor about a foot from the window. The round struck with enough force to break the windowpane but did not penetrate the window blinds. There was no other damage to the room, which is used occasionally for meetings by the congressman.”

AP – Richmond Police

AP – 3:40 p.m. The Richmond Police Department is investigating an act of vandalism [against] the Reagan Building, 25 E. Main St., where Rep. Eric I. Cantor, R-7th, has a [campaign] office.

Police said a first floor window was struck by a bullet at around 1 a.m. on Tuesday. The building was not occupied, police said. A preliminary investigation determined that a bullet was fired into the air and struck the window at a downward direction, landing about a foot from the window. The bullet had enough force to break the windowpane but not penetrate the window blinds, according to a news release.

There are no suspects, Gene Lepley, a spokesman for the department, said.

If you want to understand the interplay of charge and countercharge between republicans and democrats go to “glen Beck clips” and watch vidio fo3/24/2010. The dems are now the respectful leadership, republicans the disabediant bad boy who must be chastized. Think role reversal from the 60′s and who was the bad guy then, to today with the once bad guy now in leadership.

The entire left has spent the better part of a decade demonizing George W. and inciting violence, encouraging his assassination, feeding their little fantasies about his untimely, (and they hoped) bloody death in every medium possible – electronic and print – and now they are whining about a few stray nutbags?

Let me be perfectly clear – no one has the right to threaten any member of Congress OR the President.

That being said, how can we take their whining seriously? Ooh, I’m so scared now cause there are unstable people out there who might hurt me. They’ve left messages on my answering machine and emailed ugly things to me. Those who incite others to violence to the degree that the left and their lapdogs, the MSM, have done cannot now protest that vitriolic opposition has come back to bite them on their collective tushies.

And as for “ordinary guy,” who thinks, as do ALL leftists that we need to be instructed by him, an actual bullet entered an actual window in one of an actual congressman’s offices. That trumps any scary message from a looney everytime. As for the report that the bullet wasn’t meant for his office, anything that comes from the MSM isn’t worth the executive order Bart Stupak claims will protect the unborn.

We’ll see how this pans out.

A little off topic but things have been a little serious today:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Cuban-leader-applauds-US-apf-124808403.html?x=0&.v=1

Drudge is leading with: REVOLUTION: CASTRO CHEERS OBAMACARE!

Interesting times. Interesting times.

Does anyone else read this as “stop telling the truth about our horrible bill?”

Personally, I don’t blame the Dems for trying this line of “argument.” The MSM allows them to make these claims with virtually no verification, and too often our side just sits there and takes it.

Remember macaca? (We all do). Well, this time, when the WaPo tried it on Bob McDonnell, Michael Barone said enough. He started “Macaca Watch,” and let the WaPo know that someone was watching and would not be silent. The Post’s attempt at Macaca The Sequel collapsed.

You have to stand up to these people. Hold your ground, throw their arguments back in their face and make them prove their points. Many (if not most) times, they’ll back down.

Kudos to Cantor for calling out Van Hollen and Kaine by name. That’s what it takes to stop this stuff.

this is the “do as i say not as i do”. it’s ok to spread lies about protesters but when it is one of their own perpetrating the act of violence then it’s ok and the state run media will say little or nothing about it.

Louise Slaughter condemning “fanning the flames with coded rhetoric”

The minds of followers on the left are pretty simple as documented in these spaces so well. So you have to mention the coded rhetoric to them so that they know that is the coded rhetoric itself.

Might as well just come right out and say ‘go ahead and break out the akkrit ammo’

Best of all, it’s manifestly not indictable.

The sudden “attacks” and the “heated rhetoric” assertions, seem to be right from the Alinsky/Democrat playbook of victim-hood. The Tea Party movement has been active for over a year. There have been no confirmed racial attacks, no confirmed physical assaults, no confirmed violence. There is no way I will believe that this is Tea Party or conservative oriented.
If Tea Party members have used words that are offensive, it was always in the context of using our political system to resolve our differences with Democrats &/or their legislation.
There has been bi-partisan opposition to this legislation in the congress. There has been only partisan participation in concocting the means to force the legislation through. Many Democrats voted for this legislation only because they were “encouraged” to do so. In the real world, we call that encouragement threats & bribes.
So far, law enforcement has none revealed any of their investigation reports on any of the incidences. So, there can be NO accusations that are supported in fact since there is no evidence to assign blame to anyone. Even then, just as the left always told America the radical elements were not their responsibility, so too is it proper now to say the right has no responsibility for actions by radicals who are assigned to the right.
The massive media coverage of Nancy Pelosi smugly marching into congress w/ her symbolic gavel (a march I feel was designed to inflame, mock, & infuriate), plus the member of congress following along w/ a video camera, and the plethora of cell phone camera’s, provided no evidence of disparaging remarks, no racial outbursts, and no homophobic outbursts. In addition, the Representative who was supposedly spit on, had no spittle to show and even when this supposedly happened responded by saying to the closest person, “‘did’ you just spit on me? He did not say why did you spit on me? He did not know “IF” it had happened. That person had their mouth covered as they cupped their hands & shouted something at him. No spit. The Representative “thought” something happened.
DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen was on TV again today trying to fan the flames of anger & unsubstantiated accusation. He was trying to use association of the Tea Partiers, conservatives, and anyone at all who disagrees with the legislation, with violence. What they are trying to do is say, if you object, you are violent. You are the problem. You are evil. You do not want people to have insurance. You are creating a dangerous atmosphere.
There may be people on the right doing the same. However, they are not members of congress or of the party machine like Van Hollen is.
Rush Limbaugh did a show on this & he very articulately outlined the issues at hand. He discredited the accusations. He showed that while America tolerated attacks by the left for decades on their pet issues, now they are trying to say any opposition from the right is dangerous & must be curtailed. They want the right to sit down & work it out while for decades the left refused to talk w/ anyone.
In addition, Rush makes the great point that in history, it is NOT the right who riots. The right is not the group that gets together & creates havoc on the streets. The Tea Party people at a Texas rally (rally, not riot or demonstration), actually ‘cleaned up’ after the rally. Can you name a time the left ever cleaned up after their demonstrations? Name, ONE! So, organized people protesting w/in the law, always obeying law enforcement orders, and cleaning up afterward, have suddenly turned in a dangerous & violent group that needs to be controlled? ! Yeah, sure they did!?
One Democrat has even called for a return of the “Fairness Doctrine” because he wants people like Glenn Beck silenced.
Beck does not & has not advocated violence. He has called for action.. political action. Beck may be a nut, but he is not a violent nut. He also should have four to five decades to catch up to the vicious vitriol that has been spewed by the left. Keith Olbermann alone has shown America the truly hateful side of the left. Add his cohorts & you have a cabal of broadcasting types, working for a network who is losing market share as viewers seek sanity elsewhere, and a network outlet that has rarely, if ever shown an unbiased broadcast of an event or person.
Shame on anyone who commits an act of violence. It is unacceptable conduct from either side of the issues. Stop it!
However, lets not be silenced or lose our enthusiasm just because the left is looking to shut us up by portraying themselves as victims. These people practice professional victim-hood. Its time facts were discussed & politicians passed legislation based solely on facts & not on political ideology.