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The backlash: Reform turns personal
politico ^ | 3/24/10 | JAKE SHERMAN & MARIN COGAN

Posted on 03/24/2010 10:08:52 AM PDT by Nachum

Louise Slaughter and Bart Stupak have received death threats.

A tea party participant published what he thought was Thomas Perriello’s home address and urged disgruntled voters to “drop by” for a “good face-to-face chat.”

Vandals broke windows at Slaughter’s office in New York and Gabrielle Giffords’s office in Arizona.

And angry voters are planning to protest this weekend at the home of Steve Driehaus — who’s already seen a photograph of his children used in a newspaper ad published by reform opponents.

The vitriolic health care debate has become personal — too personal, say House Democrats who voted for the bill and now find not just themselves but their families in the cross hairs of opponents.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; backlash; democrats; democrattraitors; donttreadonme; healthcare; obamacare; personal; reform; socialisthealthcare; turns; wethepeople; windowwar
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To: Psycho_Bunny

The government has no business to force everyone to get health insurance. The Constitution never said that.


61 posted on 03/24/2010 10:29:42 AM PDT by Ptarmigan (God Hates Bunnies! Bunnies=Nature's Freaks)
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To: jtal

“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” - Samuel Adams, Speech at the State House, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776


62 posted on 03/24/2010 10:32:39 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: Woebama

Tyson chicken pluckers


63 posted on 03/24/2010 10:33:02 AM PDT by ontap
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To: ilovesarah2012
It will only get worse, I predict. People are angry because these idiots refused to listen to us. Hell hath no fury like voters spurned.

They know what they are doing. They are trying to provoke us. Have you seen any humility or genuine bipartisan behavior from Obama? I haven't, but I have seen a fair amount of in-your-face moments from he and many of the Dems. As to why they are doing this I can only speculate, but I'm sure the intentions aren't good.

64 posted on 03/24/2010 10:33:06 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (ClimateScandal.org)
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To: Myrddin
Minnick had the good sense to vote no.

Yes, he did. Doesn't let him off the hook for anything else, though. He's not supporting anything that smacks of states rights, 10th Amendment, or state sovereignty. He's still got a chance to redeem himself there, though...

65 posted on 03/24/2010 10:34:01 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: Grunthor

I don’t like the property damage either. We need to be smart about this, pick and choose our battles. The violence will lead us nowhere. Dr. King didn’t use violence. Jesus didn’t use violence. We do what we can do within the law, what we know to do, pray and watch God do the rest. We are going to birth and Ismael if we go violent.


66 posted on 03/24/2010 10:34:05 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Major Matt Mason

If the people did “take to the streets”, would that help Obama’s agenda? Martial law, perhaps? Suspend the Constitution (which he has already done)? I don’t doubt he wants to provoke us.

FUBO


67 posted on 03/24/2010 10:35:32 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Grunthor

“Threats” rarely accomplish anything.


68 posted on 03/24/2010 10:36:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Nachum

My prediction. If Congress goes ahead and passes amnesty over the outcry of the American people, there will be blood in the streets. Right now, there is still a way to work within the system. They pass amnesty and allow 20-30 million illegals to vote, and there won’t be. At that point, some will go outside the system.


69 posted on 03/24/2010 10:38:05 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: MsLady
Dr. King didn’t use violence. Jesus didn’t use violence.

Both of them were murdered!

70 posted on 03/24/2010 10:38:48 AM PDT by ontap
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To: MsLady

Non-violent protest only works well like it did for Gandhi and the 60s Civil Rights movement if the audience who watches (and the media who reports it) get outraged at those who would enforce the laws, and sympathetic to those willing to martyr themselves, and those outraged have sufficient pull on the authorities to do something about it.

Didn’t work so well in China and hasn’t worked very well in Iran, either.

Although right now, this is people blowing off steam. Will it escalate? Time will tell.


71 posted on 03/24/2010 10:39:28 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: Nachum
From the article: “The vitriolic health care debate has become personal — too personal, say House Democrats who voted for the bill and now find not just themselves but their families in the cross hairs of opponents.”

It was always personal. It always affected the citizens personally, families included.

From the article: “Driehaus faults Republicans for providing encouragement to the most extremee opponents of reform.”

Could this be the kettle calling the Corning Ware Black? Democrats apparently provided encouragement to the most extreme proponents of reform or we wouldn’t have gotten what we got the way we got it.

As to the rest of the article, at this point I’m not certain who is doing what to whom, who is being set up or framed, or how much is just propaganda.

72 posted on 03/24/2010 10:39:45 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Nachum

Fear is a great motivator.


73 posted on 03/24/2010 10:40:06 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (1-20-09--The Beginning of an Error..............1-20-13--Change we can look forward to)
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To: Nachum

“Personal”? Yeah, since the government is about to control my health care, I take it personally.

No one in my circle is talking about assassinating anyone, and the bulk of the Tea Partier/conservatives are NOT talking that way.

And the JERKOFFS at the politico know that. Their notion the death threats against these statists is “mainstream” is horsecrap.

You idiots at Politico want to see hate speech? Look at what happened to Ann Coulter.


74 posted on 03/24/2010 10:40:47 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: brytlea

The Henry Hyde comment was fine with the MSM. Like Bidens F-bomb in the White House yesterday. They screamed when they picked up an off mike comment by Bush during the 2000 campaign, when he called Clymer an a**hole. Biden’s language was met with little snickers on all of the news programs I saw yesterday. They have such an incredible double standard when it comes to their selective outrage....And they are just waiting for conservatives to do something so they can try to de-legitimize the Tea Parties.


75 posted on 03/24/2010 10:40:52 AM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: Nachum

Excuse me, but exactly what has the left been doing all along? Look at what happened to INDIVIDUALS in California after the prop 8 vote.


76 posted on 03/24/2010 10:41:09 AM PDT by BlueCat
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To: Nachum

It is just begun.


77 posted on 03/24/2010 10:41:25 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Cowman

Remember Ben Nelson getting chased out of a restaurant after the Christmas eve vote?\


That needs to happen to every democrat who voted for obamacare.

78 posted on 03/24/2010 10:42:46 AM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Nachum

I guess the public education system and 40 years of politically correct programming in media and culture haven’t turned all Americans into complacent, effete, effeminate, docile sheep waiting to be sheared by their masters in the political class.

I wonder if people have been keeping lists of the politicians, union leaders, left wing pundits, and behind the scenes puppet masters of the left just waiting for a day when after voting and voicing and having more and more of their time and money taken and their will ignored, the People finally rise of for retribution?

I wonder if the past few years of record gun and ammunition sales have anything to do with the will of the people facing an end game with the will of the political class?

I wonder how bad it might get?


79 posted on 03/24/2010 10:44:32 AM PDT by spodefly (I have posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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To: jacquej
Would you believe that my son, who chose the Air Force in 1981 was also called a “baby-killer” by his friends and classmates?

Easy to believe. My HS is in the Bay Area, about 20 mi south of Berkeley.

I can laugh about it now. I got the most rewarding scholarship of my entire class (550+ students). My parents didn't have to pay a dime for college, and I received an unbelievable education.

My 40th reunion will be in two years...I'm pondering making that one, even though I've yet to attend one.

80 posted on 03/24/2010 10:44:47 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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