http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/145627-dem-lawmaker-on-labor-protests-get-a-little-bloody-when-necessary
Sometimes it's necessary to get out on the streets and "get a little bloody," a Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday in reference to labor battles in Wisconsin.
Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) fired up a group of union members in Boston with a speech urging them to work down in the trenches to fend off limits to workers' rights like those proposed in Wisconsin.
"I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going," Capuano said, according to the Dorchester Reporter. "Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary."
Political observers have been the lookout for potentially incendiary rhetoric in the wake of January's shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) survived an assassination attempt, six were killed, and 13 others were injured.
Political rhetoric has become especially heated in Madison, Wis., where Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed major labor reforms that sparked more than a week's worth of rowdy protests at the state capitol.
"We take security seriously, whether it's for me, the lieutenant governor and all 132 members of the state legislature, Democrats or Republicans alike, because there's a lot of passion down here," Walker said Tuesday on MSNBC about his safety in Wisconsin. "And particularly when we see people coming in being bussed in from other states, that's what worries us."
Capuano made his remarks before a crowd of union members in Boston, along with other members of the state's congressional delegation. Massachusetts has an influential union population that could loom large over the 2012 Senate race. Capuano is considering getting in that race to challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) next fall.
“This is going to be a struggle at least for the next two years. Let’s be serious about this. They’re not going to back down and we’re not going to back down. This is a struggle for the hearts and minds of America,” Capuano told union members.
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I thought Hate Rhetoric only came from the right?
Okay, I concede one Dem lawmaker to scores (if not hundreds) of conservative and tea party lawmakers and candidates.
AntwortenLöschenIf you want to keep score it would be easy, so why go there?
Let's go there!
AntwortenLöschenI find it interesting that the right finds it just hypocritical of the left to say the same things that the right did and not condemn them.
AntwortenLöschenIf the right would say, okay, we are wrong when we compare Obama and the left to Hitler, we are wrong to put crosshairs on pictures of our political enemies, it is wrong to 'target' those we disagree with, on and on....
but all they can come up with is a 1:34 video showing that they think that liberals are hypocrites.
Two things come to mind:
AntwortenLöschen(1) The Left by and large, are not carrying guns to rallies, so it is easier to understand their talk is just talk. Note, I didn't say either side used them. just that the right has the hate speech plus the gun imagery. (The nut in Arizona was just that - a nut).
On the other hand, both sides are equally as destructive towards property. And yes Randy, the right has ransacked offices as well as the left.
(2) Whoever made up that sign with the cross hairs has absolutely no idea of how it is supposed to look. Geez, Google it before you make a sign dude.
Yup!
AntwortenLöschenAnd thankfully, he was fiired later Wednesday.
Walker's idiot move, getting punked should disqualify him, mostly for being monumentally stupid!