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North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller has upped the ante.
Recently, his press secretary said that Miller would not conduct health care town halls with his constituents due to a death threat over the proposed overhaul. Capitol Hill police reportedly are investigating the threat.
Now, Miller says that he is one of hundreds of lawmakers who have received such threats.
“Hundreds” would indicate a good portion of the 535 members in the House and Senate. Has Miller or his staff spoken with all of them? If not, what source is he relying on to make such a bold accusation?
More to the point, have any reporters asked Miller or anyone else to substantiate the claims? That might be a good idea, given the fact that liberals are now using the threats as a catalyst to avoid the public at town hall meetings. A tidy excuse, I would say, that needs to be vetted.
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Tim| 8.7.09 @ 1:50PM
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
H.L. Mencken
Nobama| 8.7.09 @ 2:19PM
Axelrod probably set up a huge ACORN phone bank to make phony death threats. I trust these liars about as far as I can throw them; and judging from the looks of some of those fat Union goons in Florida, it wouldn't be very far.
Solo| 8.7.09 @ 3:09PM
Amazing, isn't it?
The leftist democrats (but I repeat myself) are claiming threats of violence while their own Union thug operatives are committing all the violence.
They claim a lack of a democratic process while they conduct their "electronic Town Halls" in secret and pre-screen which questions are to be asked by a pre-selected group.
They deplore the shouting and anger exhibited by their own constituents claiming that this behavior prevents dialogue and then dismiss these citizens as "Nazis" and "Brownshirts" to justify ignoring their input. (See above).
Are you ready to submit, yet? Then, repeat after me : "2+2=5". "2+2=5", "2+2=5".......
Campy| 8.7.09 @ 4:12PM
You know it's hit a nerve when even Peggy Noonan writes about this—and well:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204908604574334623330098540-lMyQjAxMDA5MDAwNjEwNDYyWj.html
ncatty| 8.7.09 @ 4:16PM
I live in NC and Miller is a go along to get along type. I didn't realize he was coward.
Campy| 8.7.09 @ 4:22PM
She said the caller wanted a town hall meeting and told a staffer "it could cost him his life."
Death threat? Maybe it was more in the context of the bill he's peddling with its "life counseling option." Hell, I've had more ominous messages than that from old boyfriends.
Caroline| 8.7.09 @ 4:40PM
Campy--lol!
What a weenie lib (but I repeat myself!) Miller is.
jr| 8.7.09 @ 4:50PM
A "telephone town hall." That is a good one for sure. If one phone call lasts for 5 minutes (if it is my wife, change that to 45) then the meeting lasting 2 hours will have responed to 24 people. Sounds good to me.
jr| 8.7.09 @ 4:50PM
A "telephone town hall." That is a good one for sure. If one phone call lasts for 5 minutes (if it is my wife, change that to 45) then the meeting lasting 2 hours will have responed to 24 people. Sounds good to me.
jr| 8.7.09 @ 4:51PM
Doubles! Whoops, sorry, my trigger finger twitched.
MrFishy| 8.7.09 @ 5:58PM
"The leftist democrats (but I repeat myself) are claiming threats of violence while their own Union thug operatives are committing all the violence."
Remember the Ann Coulter Rule "You can tell what the left plans to do by what they accuse you of doing." Our liberty is now being taken by violent force, while a state run media brainwashes us with propaganda and refuses to report the truth.
Richard Baker| 8.7.09 @ 8:19PM
These political chameleons should be afraid for their sinecure. Most of these thugs are dead politically but do not know it. They show contempt for us and the sentiment is returned and these whiners don't like it. Tough toenails. Where is Sam Adams when you need him?
Campy| 8.7.09 @ 9:12PM
You'll have to pry the frosty one from my cold, dead hands, Richard...it's Friday night! :-)
David H| 8.8.09 @ 12:42AM
Actually, quite a few liberal congressmen and senator have threatened me and my family with bodily injury. What, they haven't? Prove it.