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The media has enabled this.

by noemie maxwell on Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 04:49:03 AM PST

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Pissed me off good. After I cleaned up the spilled coffee, I sent the following LTE to the papers in Aberdeen, Pac County and the Columbian in Vancouver:

Death Threat to Baird and Appropriate Civic Outrage

Is this the best we can hope for from the other half of a two-party system?

First Pacific County Republicans demanded an apology from Brian Baird for his remarks about lynch-mob mentalities at town hall meetings.

Although having offered no viable or sensible alternative health care reform plan, Republicans apparently have no time to create something like that. They are too busy resorting to political attack.

And now someone has actually made a death threat against Representative Baird for his town hall meeting scheduled in Vancouver.

What  constructive, helpful and civic-minded response was made by Clark County Republicans?

This is apparently what comes out of their brave new world from the Vancouver Columbian:

    The death threat, delivered to Baird's Washington, D.C., office in a phone message Aug. 10, said, approximately,

    "You think Timothy McVeigh was bad, there is a Ryder Truck out there with your name on it,"

    But after Baird alluded to the threat during brief introductory comments to the Rotary Club of Vancouver on Wednesday, Clark County Republicans denounced him for invoking the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

    County Republican Party Chairman Ryan Hart called the reference to domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh's use of a Ryder truck to deliver explosives to the Alfred R. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City "just unbelievable."

    "You would think he would have learned a lesson or two over the past two weeks," Hart said.

What lesson is that?

The content of the threat?

A better health-care plan?

Appropriate civic participation?

We need a two-party system with real and viable alternative points of view.

Currently we have one party plus a noise and deception club that has only one plan and one strategy ... neither of which is constructive nor has socially redeeming value.

Arthur
What they inwardly imagine is the only thing they'll accept.

by Arthur Ruger on Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 09:07:29 AM PST

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Horsey uncovers the reason for bringing guns to a presidential event.

by zappini on Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 03:36:36 PM PST

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