The ugly right wing reaction to the House vote gets personal and violent for a friend of mine

[DFW]

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, who is known as somewhat of a blue dog in the House, voted as one of the 219 Democrats
voting for the bill yesterday. She voted her conscience. She is a thoughtful intelligent woman. She is also my friend.

Last night, after voting for the bill some coward broke into her Tuscon office and decided to do some damage
while no one was around: http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_eb24e4fe-35dc-11df-ad88-001cc4c03286.html

Gaby's husband is in the military, and I hope that if he gets his hands on the perp, that the perp's health care insurance,
should he still be in a condition to be able to claim it, refuses to pay for his treatment.

*edited so the link would work

[Cha]

1. So sorry to hear that, DFW! Rep

Louise Slaughter's Niagara Falls, NY office had a brick thrown through the window the other day.

If this doesn't stop..we're all going to have personal stories.:(

Sorry, your "link is not found".

[DFW]

3. I heard about the brick, too

I updated the OP for the link and a pic of Gaby's office.

[Cha]

16. Thanks! There was another Brick

thrown in her Rochester, New York office.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear DFW...

How dreadful for your good friend...

And for all the Congressional folk who followed their consciences during this fight.

I am afraid we will be seeing more and more of this sort of thing, since the right wing radio and TV folk have whipped their audiences into a frenzy.

I'm really glad nobody was hurt.

[DFW]

4. Peggy, I think we are seeing the beginning of a dying sputter

After all, since the only ones who really have any negative effect to suffer are a few zillionaire insurance company
execs, I think Roger Ailes will find something else to have his people rail at the moment Obama signs a final version
into law.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Well, I do hope you're right.

Otherwise, we could have a lot more of this sort of thing going on...

[DFW]

10. Oh, we have not seen the end of it by any means

I just think their zenith has come and gone. There will still be many stray bullets to dodge before their last one has been fired.

[SusanaMontana41]

14. You may

be correct. Literally.

This could be the most dangerous time for progressives; heck, Blue Dogs could be targets, too. Look what happened when Bart Stupak took to the House floor last night.

Hope we're wrong, DFW.

[DFW]

15. That makes two of us.

In another era, you might have heard "deflector shields up!"

[Mojeoux]

13. Agreement!!

The tide is turned.

Every day America becomes more diverse

and more accepting of gay and third world cultures

and more caring for people in poverty.

Liberals voted these people into office to do liberal stuff and by God they're doing it.

[lunatica]

5. It seems the vandals wait till after dark and when the offices are empty

But it's still terrorist tactics. They may claim it's just damage to property but the implied threat is obvious. I just hope some nut job doesn't hurt or kill someone.

[Cosmocat]

6. It is sad ... But this is GOOD news ...

they haven't crossed the last line ... And, the scumbag right wing hacks on the right are REAL close to pushing them over it, AS WELL as the douchebag congressman and senators ...

[DFW]

8. These are usually cowardly, gutless wonders

Besides, if anything happens to a Congresswoman whose husband is an active member of the military,
I would not want to be underwriting the guy's medical insurance.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. I'm so sorry

There were apparently several incidents involving bricks at Democratic offices.

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/

[DFW]

11. It seems they have organized their street thugs

The teabaggers have taken to sending out their brick throwers. How courageous of them.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. They have moved on from spit and the N word

:scared:

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Sadly I am not surprised

and I hope the Perp is caught... and prosecuted to the full extent of the law

[Cha]

18. Very interesting aspect that Gaby's husband

is in the Military. Imv, this would bring more attention to the viciousness of it.

My blue chicken dog will not have any Bricks thrown through his window bc he made the Dems mad, who wanted HRC to pass, by voting NO.

We don't roll that way.

[AngryOldDem]

19. This is why I really can't blow off the remarks that Limbaugh, Beck, et. al. make.

Words have consequences. At what point does what they say cross the line from lunatic ravings to dangerous rhetoric?

[tom_paine]

20. Their Nazi/KKK is showing...

How long will such comparisons be taboo for conversation in Corporate M$M?

Answer: As long as those observations about the original Nazis were verboten from German media.

[DFW]

22. Your comparison was echoed by my favorite German

Namely, my wife. She saw the smashed glass, and when I told her whose it was (she knows Gaby, too), she
exclaimed, they're just like the Nazis were here (i.e. Germany) in the thirties!

[Kablooie]

23. Odd that they equate Hitler with Obama when many of them revere him.

[Fleshdancer]

21. Rep Slaughter had a brick thrown through her local office window a few weeks ago

I had no idea until I heard her talking about it on the House floor yesterday while condemning the bigoted slurs and spitting. The vandalism to her office also happened at night.

[lame54]

24. I hope this shakes the blue off her dog

[DFW]

25. I don't know how deeply blue she really is

She never described herself to me this way, and considering the district she represents, it's obvious she could never get
elected as as Democrat there if her politics are the same as Barney Frank's. I'll know more in a couple of months, actually.

[Quantess]

26. Not cool.

:kick: