Kaine: GOP Is 'Going To Own' Tea Party's Rhetoric

[sufrommich]

Leading Democratic Party officials plan to link Republican candidates to the vitriol and offensive behavior that was witnessed at Tea Party protests during the last days of the health care debate.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine accused GOP leadership of "trying to stoke anger" with "flat-out lies" about the president's health care reform policy. Asked about the racist and anti-gay epithets that were directed towards House Democratic lawmakers during the closing days and hours before they passed legislation, Kaine wasn't subtle in assigning blame.

"The Republicans knew all that stuff was completely false, but they tried to stoke public anger based on that, and the anger has taken some very, frankly, predictable forms that I don't think they can't walk away from and explain," he said.

" are going to own part of that," the DNC chair added. "They're going to own part of the slurs cast at members of Congress, people vandalizing members of Congress' offices. Twice Republican members of Congress, sitting in the well of the House, behaved in rude and outrageous ways, yelling at a president in one instance with Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), and then with When it's okay for leaders to do the rude, outrageous stuff like that, it sure sends a signal that the followers should do it too."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/kaine-gop-is-going-to-own_n_511443.html



Dare we imagine that the democrats are finally going to fight back?

[polichick]

1. Good for Kaine - these people are purposely inciting violence and domestic terrorism. nt

[Raschel]

2. Sarah Palin started the "real American" (KKK-speak) hate speech. I see she now has actual targets

as in gun targets on the US map for Democrats she wants defeated. She is a divisive hate monger and no good for our country.

[quiet.american]

3. Well said. nt

[Raschel]

5. Well thanks. I try to hit every Palin thread I can. I really see her as the leader of this fear and

hatred. She has not had to answer for it yet.

[polichick]

4. Yes, she was the first politician to go there - and her newest tactic is sick. nt

[The Genealogist]

6. I agree with you

"divisive hatemonger" pretty much sums up Sarah Failin'. She is too stupid too know how to do anything but hate and spread hate.

[polichick]

7. And apparently she's too stupid to even realize she's spreading hate. nt

[sufrommich]

8. Oh, I think she knows exactly what she's doing. She's the

queen of dog whistle politics.

[polichick]

9. Do you think she wants her followers to start killing people? I hope not...

...but could be.

[sufrommich]

10. I think she thinks there is a lot of money and power to be

had by stoking the teabaggers, she knows full well that it may lead to violence, she doesn't care.

[Raschel]

13. I agree. She's willing to cause harm to our country just for the attention and money.

[skip fox]

11. The Republicans bet everything on a single roll of the dice, not realizing

that if they lost through total opposition the Dems would demonstrably (clearly and obviously) own the benefits of the passage and the bill in both the short and long terms.

Now they ae holding empty hands and a rhetoric that must sound increasingly hollow even to themselves, much less 60-70% of everyone else.

Expect things to get very strange and possibly violent as their denial peaks.

[bigmonkey]

12. MSM meme - forgive Republicans, punish Democrats, for the same behavior.

Or, to put it another way, "Republicans can't help it because they're just so passionate about the issue. Democrats can't help it, because they're assholes."

It drives me crazy. The right wing wants to live by our moral rules, but wants everybody except themselves to live under theirs.

[spanone]

14. catch up kaine...not 'going to' they already do...they have EMBRACED the teashitters

[Whisp]

15. fuckface Blitzer on CNN sure was covering for the Pugs.

you should of heard him whine about how they don't condone this and 'both' parties should speak up against this kind of thing. I gots me some boiling hate-on too.