Gasoline-Drenched Flag Sent to Betty McCollum Result of Bachmann/Palin-type Rhetoric on Health Care

[Ian David]

Gasoline Drenched Flag Sent to Betty McCollum is Result of Bachmann/Palin-type Rhetoric on Health Care

This morning's Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Betty McCollum, who voted for the strongest patient protections in American history, is among the Democratic legislators who voted for health care reform that have been subjected to threats, vandalism, and in some cases, violence.

“Betty McCollum you’ve been dry f***** by the liberal party.” So read a letter, which also contained a condom removed from its packaging, received by Rep. Betty McCollum’s office on Monday. Another letter contained a shredded American flag drenched in gasoline along with a note that reads, “It represents Obama and your liberal filth. Open the bag, it’s covered in the stench you’ve brought to our government … Because of you, we are now a country of dirt, shame, corruption and slime.”

McCollum’s is one of many congressional offices that are reporting threatening tactics by anti-health care reform activists, particularly members of the Tea Party movement. McCollum released a statement on Thursday saying she will not be intimidated: “I will not back down in the face of attacks, threats, and violence. I do not regret my vote, and I will proudly stand in the face of opposition and defend my support of health care reform.”

The kind of threatening tactics right-wingers are employing against pro-reform Democrats are the direct result of the "death panel" and "freedom fighter" rhetoric that Republicans have been using to incite fear, anger, and hate in the minds of their conservative base.

Take Minnesota's own Michele Bachmann, who just yesterday said she was "like Nostradamus" when she predicted last year that President Obama had "anti-American views."

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[livetohike]

1. I'm sure these cowards left no forwarding address. It's just a

matter of time before the FBI tracks them down. Someone needs to be made an example of. I wonder who it will be?

[MinneapolisMatt]

2. Fucking cowards.

Shame on them. COWARDLY.

[Scruffy1]

3. Tell Susan Gaertner to get off her worthless ass

and go after some of these home grown terrorist with the zeal she insists on prosecuting The RNC 8.
Of course these "Patriotic Americans" never get arrested in the first place.

[hfojvt]

4. Does that mean Bachmann is not a Christian?

"Like Nostradamus?"

Meaning she could not think of a single prophet from the Old Testament to compare herself to. She considers Nostradamus to be a true prophet. Michelle, Michelle, Michelle, my belle, a Christian would want to be "like Micah". (You know, go with a minor prophet instead of comparing yourself to Elijah, Elisha, Daniel or Isaiah. But Nostradamus?)

[gratuitous]

5. Excellent response by McCollum

"I will not back down . . . I do not regret my vote . . . I will proudly stand." Quite unlike the cowards who hide behind anonymity to make their idle threats and reveal their childish understanding of the world.

[Historic NY]

6. Teabaggers desecrating the flag? A new low for this patriotic bunch.