AP: Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received obscenity-laced phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation.
Yeah, guys, that's doing a lot for your image as reasonable people who should ever be listened to, there.
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said in a statement that while many Americans are angry over passage of the health care bill, "violence and threats are unacceptable.
"That's not the American way," Boehner said. "We need to take that anger and channel it into positive change."
Okay, so, that's one Republican who I think has responded appropriately. Anyone else wanna step up?
Update: Add a few more to the list, including one from my home state. That's better. A little slow out of the gate, but in this case I'll go with "better late than never".
But a big thumbs-down to Eric Cantor, who used the incidents to actually complain about Democrats politicizing the incidents, in a press conference he held to... politicize the incidents.
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