Early Morning Swim: Barney Frank Discusses Tea Party Violence, Threats on “Countdown”
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 25th, 2010 4:49 am by HL
Early Morning Swim: Barney Frank Discusses Tea Party Violence, Threats on “Countdown”
And, increasingly, it’s not just about screaming epitethts.
And, increasingly, it’s not just about screaming epitethts.
U.S. House leaders of both parties condemned threats of violence directed at Democratic lawmakers following approval of the U.S. health-care overhaul.
“We’ve had very serious incidents that have occurred in the last 48 or 72 hours,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland told reporters today. “Anyone who feels at risk is getting attention from the proper authorities.” He said “a significant number, meaning more than 10” members received threats. […]
Slaughter said Republican leaders appeared “to be fanning the flames with coded rhetoric.” She cited a National Review Online article in which Boehner was quoted as saying that Ohio Democrat Steve Driehaus might be a “dead man” politically in his congressional district.
The article, published on March 18, said Boehner predicted political consequences for anti-abortion Democrats who vote to approve the bill. Referring to Driehaus, Boehner was quoted as saying, “He may be a dead man. He can’t go home to the west side of Cincinnati. The Catholics will run him out of town.”
Boehner spokesman Don Seymour said the Republican leader “does not condone violence and his remark was obviously not meant to be taken literally.”
Of course not! I mean, who’d be crazy enough to take assassination threats by a sitting Congressman literally?
Tags: Barney Frank, Early Morning Swim, right wing violence, Tea Party, teabaggers
Late Late Night FDL: Watermelon Slim
Featuring the music of Watermelon Slim and Timbre Timbre.
Featuring the music of Watermelon Slim and Timbre Timbre.
What’s on your mind tonight?
Update: R.I.P. Marva Wright.
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Alert Harry Turtledove
Not for the first time, we learn the extent of the Pope’s involvement in covering up sexual abuse of minors in the Church.
Pope Nixon the One
Because it appears that we know what would happen if Nixon became Pope … or if a whole “College of Nixons” ran the Clergy:
Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.
This, of course, is after several years of American Church authorities not acting on the case.
And these are the folks that dictate … and sadly, have the political muscle … over reproductive rights in major health care legislation because of their “moral authority”.
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