re: #1465 Lidane

There’s a lot of unhinged anger out there, and very little of it has to do with health care. I refuse to believe that this bill could cause that much rage. It’s much deeper and much scarier than all that. I just wish there were elected Republicans out there willing to take these nutjobs on and call them out on crap like that. It would be nice.

Oh absolutely. I hope this shames some of them at least into calling it out.

“This is incredible,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) told reporters of the slurs. “It’s shocking to me.” He said he hadn’t heard such vitriol since March 15, 1960 when he was protesting segregation laws that forced him to sit in the back of buses. “A lot of us have been saying for a long time that much of this, much of this, is not about health care at all,” Clyburn said. “I think a lot of those people today demonstrated this is not about health care.”

Sounds right to me. They’re uninformed, bigoted, angry and virulent.