At an impromptu press conference earlier this afternoon, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said that over ten Democratic members of Congress have been threatened since the Sunday vote on Health Care Reform. Without naming her directly, he also called out Sarah Palin for a post on Facebook that placed cross-hairs to identify members of Congress who voted for Reform.
Where are the major instances of anti-Health Care Reform violence and terrorism so far? Justin Elliott plots them out on an interactive map. Regrettably I suspect this is a map we’ll be updating.
Click the map below to see the full-size interactive map and story.
Seems like we’ve got a new craze: faxing pictures of nooses and gallows to congressmen’s offices.
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), the House Majority Whip, got one today.
And Rep. Stupak (D-MI) got one too.
In the latest report: Rep Betsy Markey (D-CO) received two death threats the day before Sunday’s Health Care Reform vote.
The provisions are minor and the changes don’t appear to substantially change the legislation. But over night Republicans won two parliamentary points of order which will require a slightly revised reconciliation bill to be passed again by the House.
Responding to news that the House will have to take up the reconciliation bill again, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says: “I expect to get this bill back from the Senate sometime this afternoon, and I would expect several hours after we will have the bill on the floor, and we will pass the bill and send it to the President.” That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Everyone was talking about this Will.i.am/John Boehner mashup yesterday, but I didn’t get a chance to actually watch it until this morning. It’s really close to perfect. Watch.
When it came time to finish the deal on health care reform, President Obama was able to bring in some powerful closers: Bill and Hillary Clinton.
NRCC downplays vandalism at Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother’s home: The real victims are Perriello’s constituents, thanks to health care reform.
There’s no question that adopting the most extreme line in opposition to Health Care Reform is the new litmus for Republican presidential contenders — repeal, constitutional challenge, perhaps even first use of nuclear weapons. They really have to sign every dotted line.
My own take on this is that this could be a big problem for them down the road. It’s not clear to me that absolute opposition to Reform is going to be a winning issue in a 2012 general election — since as we’re already seeing, even setting aside support for the bill as a whole, Dems can make this blanket opposition into opposition to all the quite popular individual provisions in the law — no denials for pre-existing conditions, keeping kids on parents’ policies until 26, no lifetime limits etc.
