More over the top nonsense at DKos

[TayTay]

Headline on the Rec List on Sat, July 18:

We caught traitor Blue Dogs on video: Mike Ross & others are public enemies

A couple of bloggers went to Capitol Hill and had confrontations with self-described House Blue Dog Dems over health care reform and the public option.

The result is the above headline. Seriously.

I want health care reform. I went through a lot of time this year sweating out whether or not I would have health care coverage. My daughter has been without coverage for 18 months. This issue matters to me.

But insulting the very people who you need to win over for the vote is not the way to do this. I am not inspired to call these people and lobby them. I am inspired to disassociate with nasty, unthinking people who place their own self-righteousness and purity above the actual work that needs to be done. Our elected officials are "traitors" and "public enemies"? We worry about right wing lunatic who are inspired to violence by overheated rhetoric on talk radio and on hate blogs and then turn around and use that kind of incendiary and thoughtless language? How senseless and pathetic is that.

We need health care reform. Somehow, I think the people who are doing this are making this job harder.