Organizing for America, formerly Organizing for Obama, the Democratic fund raising machine, issued a plea for people to donate $5 to defend health care as a result of the threats being faced by Democrats (reported by Special Report with Bret Baeir, I haven't found a link yet).
But have they really been threatened, and if they have, is there anything new about it? Politico ran a story about a coffin being left on a memeber's yard, which was retracted. Representative Bart Stupak (D. Mich.) has released tapes of angry callers using strong language. In fact, Stupak talked before about how things had been hell for him and his family...but then that was before he caved in to sell out on abortion language and support the bill. Representative Eric Cantor (R. Va.) advised he had a bullet shot through one of his campaign office...but he denounced Democrats talking about these incidents as they are using them specifically for campaign purposes and he was one of the most outspoken critics of the bill. Cantor also intimated what most would suspect already, that these kinds of things happen regularly to public officials. Representative Louise Slaughter (D. NY) had windows shattered at one of her campaign offices. But then, that sounds an awful lot like what happened in Colorado, which turned out to be a Democrat.
And yet, the Democrats are jumping on the chance to raise money based on all this. Shameless.
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