Health care reform: Sore-loser politics may backfire on Republicans

[NJmaverick]

The only thing worse for Republicans than losing the health insurance reform was the way they lost. Man, was it ugly.
The tin pot "patriots" of the tea party brigades, egged on by GOP congressmen waving "Kill the Bill" banners, confronted Democrats angrily outside the Capitol, spat on some and denounced others with racial and sexual slurs. It’s what you do when you’ve got no real case to make, I suppose.
In the days since the vote there’ve been reports of attacks on local Democratic congressional offices, rocks thrown through windows, a gas line cut at one home, phoned death threats and a fax depicting a noose. Sarah Palin, the Madame DeFarge of the GOP, has targeted 20 Democrats for election defeat by marking their districts on a map — with rifle sights.
Just your typical juvenile high-jinks (politics division), nothing to get exercised over? Don’t be too sure. With crackpot cable television types pouring gasoline on every perceived grievance, the atmosphere in the country is combustible. Leaders in both political parties have a special obligation to cool things down, especially Republicans who believe the rage benefits them.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_john_farmer/2010/03/health_care_reform_sore-loser.html

[ejpoeta]

1. i must admit i am frightened by the behavior of these loons.

what happened to their attitude a few years ago.... if you don't like it LEAVE! remember that. when things go the way they want their attitude is different. they are like bullies. what these tea partiers don't seem to realize is that they are undermining their own interests.... wonder when they will realize they are screwing themselves over.

[MadMaddie]

7. Remember the "Get Over it Dems Lost"?

I have stopped arguing with them and I say "We Won"!! That's it and that's all I say. They don't have any response.

[Kber]

2. Nice read - thanks for posting

[hlthe2b]

3. Wonder what the odds are on Palin knowing who Madame DeFarge

is? Or, if she deigned to google, being able to "get" the reference. ;)

[Walk away]

4. I don't even think she can crochet let alone read the classics! nt

[Jade Fox]

5. The responses to theis article are scary....

The Right Wing Noise Machine has sure done its job.

[NJmaverick]

10. Yes the right sees nothing wrong with their terrorist actions

[Andy823]

6. What's next

I think the republicans are "NOT" going to keep on the subject of the health care reform. Those with any brains at all will see that it's not the topic they want to be running on come November. I just wonder how many republicans up for election this year will start to think "maybe" they need to stop being the party of NO and actually do something this year, before the elections! Acting like the idiots they have been since the p;resident took office, may work for the teabaggers, but it won't work on independents and the more moderate republicans. They are going to have a tough time no matter what they do. If the throw the tea party gang under the bus, they will see tea party candidates popping up all over the country to run in the November elections which will hurt them and help the democrats running. If they keep on catering to the nut wing of the party, then they will loss most independents and some of the more moderate voters. It's going to be interesting to see what they do the next few months!

[MadMaddie]

8. The Repugs are going to carry it as far as they can go

well that is until someone on our side is hurt or worse. Then they will try to back pedal and claim that they are patriots and blah...blah....blah...

It will be our only job to crush them in November and all following elections.

[JohnWxy]

9. Just keep pointing out to people that the law they characterize as "socialist" is quite similar to

the Chaffey (Republican) Health Care Reform proposal in 1993, endorsed by 30 Republicans. The Insurance Exchange was a Republican idea, and individual mandates was proposed by Bush, the senior. So the Corporate Lobbyist Party's attack on this law is entirely political demogoguery. They are attacking a law which looks very similar to a couple Republican proposals in the past.

This certainly is NOT the law progressives in the Democratic party wanted. It represents a huge compromise on the part of Obama in the interest of getting some kind of HCR enacted into law.

[Tutankhamun]

11. Exactly. The Republicans who are screaming "socialists! Traitors!" etc.

would have been cheering this legislation on back when their politicians and demogogues supported it. It's bizarre how malleable Republican voters really are.