GOP Rep Says “Killing a Couple” of Democrats Only Way To Pass Ryan Budget

[villager]

GOP Rep Says “Killing a Couple” of Democrats Only Way To Pass Ryan Budget

Are the infamous “2nd Amendment remedies” once advocated by former Nevada Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle coming back into vogue? Oklahoma Republican John Sullivan seems to think so, telling a town hall audience that the only way the budget proposal authored by Rep. Paul Ryan would pass is if a few Democratic Senators got shot first.

According to Talking Points Memo, Sullivan told the crowd, “Like I said, after this last election, the first order of business is pass a budget. Now, I believe that. I supported the Paul Ryan budget and sent it over to the Senate. Now I live with some Senators, I yell at them all the time, I grabbed one of them the other day and shook him and I’d love to get them to vote for it — boy I’d love that. You know but other than me going over there with a gun and holding it to their head and maybe killing a couple of them, I don’t think they’re going to listen unless they get beat.”

Sullivan has since apologized for his “poor choice of words” and, according to his spokesperson, does not “condone any form of violence as a means to fix what is broken in Washington.”

Incited by politicians and pundits, the 2010 elections saw a surge in violent outbursts, both at candidate events and, prior to that, during fights against health care reform. But politicos shied away from violent rhetoric for a long time after the assassination attempt on Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who, prior to the shooting, was pegged as a “target” with crosshairs by Sarah Palin’s PAC in the 2010 elections. But the moratorium appears to be reaching an end. Last month, five Missouri Democrats found crosshair stickers on their nameplates at their offices in Jefferson City. And the Kansas Speaker of the House was recently chastised for what some construed as “praying” for the president’s death.

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[yellowcanine]

1. Sullivan has since apologized for his “poor choice of words” . The words aren't the problem John.

The thinking is the problem. Basically you were saying "whatever works." And you still think that, even though you won't say it out loud anymore, at least not in the same way.

[otohara]

2. His Office Plays Rush Limbaugh/ Hannity When On Hold

his apology means nothing as long as he plays the vile wingnuts on right-wing radio when on hold.

[villager]

6. The apology is just pro forma after the dog whistle...

...but it's the initial dog whistle, as the "whistlers" themselves know, that's important...

[librechik]

3. Confederates trying to start up the Civil War again

just to throw their toothless constituents some red meat to gum.

[jehop61]

4. Censure

Shouldn't this man face some sort of Congressional Censure? Inciting people to murder certainly goes over the line. But I guess ole Bohner will just let it pass.

[Ikonoklast]

5. Real Tough Guy.

"Now I live with some Senators, I yell at them all the time, I grabbed one of them the other day and shook him ..."


Anf that never reeeeeally happened now, did it, tough guy?

Maybe in your head it happened, but you grabbed no one.

You shook no one.

Another blowhard asshole who would get his ass kicked if he really did all the Rambo shit he tells his constituency, who lap it up.

[KamaAina]

7. Someone please PM this to Agent Mike

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Another loonie from OK. Boy, they sure can pick exceptional representatives.

[JDPriestly]

9. We just watched a documentary on Mussolini.

This is the kind of thing the Fascists said to excite their true believers to beat up and kill political opponents. Seriously. This is a very dangerous way to talk. I hope that Homeland Security is doing its job.

This seems to me to have been a specific and credible enough threat to be dangerous to someone.