Someone in leadership finally said it out loud. Let it be noted for the record, with the gauntlet thrown down. Wingnuts who incite violence will be responsible.
It’s real, with Mickey Kaus getting it, pointing the finger where it applies:
I hate to say it,** but doesn’t Nancy Pelosi have a point when she worries about a rhetorical “climate” in which violence might take place? [...] Glenn Beck, the recent times I’ve listened to him, puts his Obama criticism in an apocalyptic framework–as if Obama is staging some sort of coup– that might seem to justify violence (despite Beck’s own disclaimers) if you happened to be a very disenchanted person with weapons lying around.
Meanwhile, where is the Republican leadership on the issue?
Anyone who has paid attention this summer knows how the right has been inciting mob anger for months. Glenn Beck has egged everyone on, with Rush Limbaugh now making light of the situation.
This topic should be something on which we all agree. Why is it that we cannot?
Because Republicans not only have no moral courage, they evidently think violence is covered under freedom of speech.
It’s not like this isn’t an issue that’s been on everyone’s minds since Barack Obama was elected. People who care about this country and know our history remember. I was living in San Francisco not long after the Moscone–Milk assassinations Pelosi referenced, but I also know well, as do most of you, our national history to which she pointedly steered clear.
Why don’t Republican leaders care enough to join in Pelosi’s stark warning?
If bipartisanship meant anything this would be one issue on which all sides would join together and stand up. Not even on issues of stoking violence that could be aimed against the President of the United States will Republicans join Democrats in a show of unity.
Gives a whole new meaning and tone to the word obstructionist.
Someone slap the Democrats working on health care into reality so they quit wasting everyone’s time.
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