I’m glad the beltway insider media doesn’t have that short of a memory to realize that the same people shouting "terrorist" at McCain/Palin rallies in November are now harassing Members of Congress over health care:
Yes, there is now much energy on the right.
But much like those angry crowds that populated McCain and Palin rallies last fall (recall "he’s an Arab"), there is danger in such raw passion.
See, as one Dem points out, the much-watched Lloyd Doggett video today. Go to about a the 2:00 minute mark and you’ll find a guy carrying a kid on his shoulders and hoisting a sign with the Nazi "SS" lettering.
Recall also the hanging in effigy of another Dem congressman last week at an anti-health care rally.
These are the sort of excessive displays that breed a backlash.
I would say these are the sorts of excessive displays that breed violence, too.



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yes, this is a concern–as I will discuss soon, it would be nice if Republican elected officials strongly denounced this extreme rhetoric and denounced the mobs that are shouting down rational discussion (see e.g. Rep. Doggett)