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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: Fu-fu2

You are so right. I was disappointed that the panel on Brett’s show yesterday didn’t seem particularly unhappy with his comment and just treated it as a joke.
However, I assume that most of the generation younger than me talks like that all the time, so folks like me who find the ever increasing use of that word in almost every conversation troubling, are just quaint holdovers from a different time. Besides, it makes him cool. (It is the only reason I can come up for that people throw that word into every day conversation, since they never use it to mean anything).


81 posted on 03/24/2010 10:44:54 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Nachum

“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.”

Tough $hit, you fascist swine. You should have thought of that before you voted.
So you have sown and so you shall reap.


82 posted on 03/24/2010 10:46:01 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: BlueCat; 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.

Yeah, look at that! :-(

83 posted on 03/24/2010 10:47:17 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: MsLady

I suggest that you retire to the mountains with no TV, radio, nagazines or newspapers. It’s probably gonna get worse, and I’m all for it.


84 posted on 03/24/2010 10:49:30 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Night Hides Not

It was a travesty what the left did to soliders such as yourself during the Vietnam War.

Now it’s time to say “payback’s a bitch” to these leftists that have spit on this country since the 1960s.


85 posted on 03/24/2010 10:50:29 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: BlueCat

Oh, but the left’s motto: What’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander....


86 posted on 03/24/2010 10:52:49 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: Nachum

This wasn’t Healthcare “reform”. It was a total overhall. Healthcare restructuring.

How many people polled were HAPPY with their healthcare plans? Those are being changed as well.


87 posted on 03/24/2010 10:53:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: MsLady

“Jesus didn’t use violence.”
I’d say the money changers in the Temple would disagree with your assessement.


88 posted on 03/24/2010 10:53:51 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heavens....


89 posted on 03/24/2010 10:58:35 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: ontap

Yep, they were. And then they went to heaven.


90 posted on 03/24/2010 10:58:56 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

With God all things are possible. You don’t need violence.


91 posted on 03/24/2010 11:00:09 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

Kicking over a table is hardly the same thing as killing someone.


92 posted on 03/24/2010 11:00:37 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Nachum
We need to keep our powder dry, Glenn is right they are looking for an excuse to marginalize us or go Martial Law. My guess it may not be conservatives but agent provocateurs.

It just means we have to pick a candidate in our area, go volunteer to; put up signs, make phone calls @ the local area, etc. (screw the RNC).

93 posted on 03/24/2010 11:03:29 AM PDT by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: MsLady

Without violence, there would have been no American Revolution...without the agitation of the Sons of Liberty, there would have been no Boston Tea Party, no Bunker Hill...

Sometimes, Gandhi’s methods are right. Sometimes, they aren’t.

Sometimes, God uses the daisy, sometimes the rifle.

It will unfold over time which method he’s going to use this occasion.


94 posted on 03/24/2010 11:04:40 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Without the Constitution, there is no America!)
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To: Nachum

Awwww . . . the babies reach into our lives and tell us what to do. They reach into our companies and tell us that we are making too much from our hard work and they will spread our wealth around. They reach into our wallets and tell us that our money will be used for abortions. Now thy whine that this is getting personal? It got personal back when they crated a “constitutional right” to use our money to kill their children. I don’t approve of violence against these sick anti-American socialists, but I see nothing wrong with a little harassment, or with them facing an angry mob of real Americans daily, people who resent their evil intrusions on our lives.


95 posted on 03/24/2010 11:04:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Nachum

They’re lucky we don’t storm the damn capital with pitchforks and torches and burn that city down.


96 posted on 03/24/2010 11:05:35 AM PDT by lwd
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To: Woebama

Pillow manufacturers and chicken farmers....if there are any left in America.


97 posted on 03/24/2010 11:07:05 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: Nachum

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson


98 posted on 03/24/2010 11:12:14 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: Nachum
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.

Americans are tired of being frightened, as we were on November 4, 2008.

Americans are tired of being economically raped, as we were in March 2009.

Americans are tired of being "herded", expected to behave in a predictable and docile manner, like livestock.

Americans are tired of being treated like servants, whose purpose is to serve the elite elected to serve Americans.

Americans tired of being in the crosshairs of the likes of William Ayers, who to this day has not recanted of his 1970 call for the extermination of 25 Million unrepentant capitalists.

Americans are losing all fear, all hope and therefore all sense abandon, as they now find themselves in Tytler's trough of bondage.

Americans are looking forward to new hope.

Sometimes, payback's a real b!tch.

99 posted on 03/24/2010 11:17:48 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Nachum

Good. Serves you right for your arrogance!!! It will get worse.


100 posted on 03/24/2010 11:18:27 AM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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