Neither Republicans nor Democrats have a monopoly on incivility
Neither Republicans nor Democrats have a monopoly on incivility
"If you listen to fools.
The rules of the mafia. "- Black Sabbath, "The Mob Rules"
The majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Is challenging the left.
He has had harsh words for former Attorney General Eric Holder, who told Democrats to "kick" them when Republicans "are appeased."
McConnell characterized the tactics of the Democrats after the fight against the judge of the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, like "marginal and toxic behavior". He warned that such tricks of the "new Democratic Party" could result in violence, such as the assassination last year of House Whip majority Steve Scalise, R-La.
"It's not entirely surprising given the absolute embrace of many on the left, including elected officials, of radical concepts such as open borders and socialism," McConnell said. "We will not allow the mafia's behavior to drown all Americans who want to legitimately participate in the policymaking process."
Someone sent Senator Cory Gardner's wife, R-Colo., A text message embedded with the video of a beheading.
"This is not what we are as a country," Gardner warned. "When it comes to calls to violence and murders, it has gone too far."
Authorities arrested Jackson Cosko after he accused several Republican senators, giving out personal information and details about their families. Cosko had been an unpaid intern for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas. He previously worked for Senator Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. The police increased their focus on Cosko after he improperly entered Hassan's office after hours and was discovered working on a computer he no longer had permission to use.
The Democrats have been on the move for a long time when it comes to protests. Representative Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, encouraged protesters to harass Republicans in restaurants and other public places. Those who faced the hectoría while they dined or who were rejected in restaurants include senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the press secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders and the secretary of National Security Kirstjen Nielsen.
Has the left crossed a line?
It was not long ago when the right stirred up similar embers. In 2009, conservatives were fighting against an environmental bill called "cap and trade," an economic stimulus package and, in general, something designed by President Obama and then by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D -Calif.
The Republicans insisted on interrupting the "town halls" where the Democratic legislators answered the questions of the electors. Many on the right, festooned with three-cornered hats and representing the powerful tea party, attended the forums to annoy Democratic lawmakers.
It culminated with vigorous protests when Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, which in most cases passed the ObamaCare law, became law in late 2009 and in the first quarter of 2010.
Protesters threw invective and racial epithets at members of the Congress Black Caucus as they walked between the Capitol and the Cannon House office building. Some cursed and booed the Democrats, shouting insults against homosexuals in the then representative. Barney Frank, D-Mass. A protester spat on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo.
"I was surprised that people are so bad and that we can not participate in civil dialogue and debate," said Representative John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia, a central figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Lewis noticed that he had not heard a language like that addressed to him "from the March to Selma".
When someone spat on Cleaver, an ordained Methodist minister, the congressman initially stopped and visibly tried to control his anger. The US Capitol Police initially arrested someone for allegedly assaulting the congressman.
"The man who spat at the congressman was arrested. But the congressman has chosen not to press charges, "Cleaver's office said in a statement at the time.
"I'm sorry for those people who are doing these unpleasant things," Cleaver said. "They're being flogged, I decided I would not get mad at any of them."
Of course, the question now is whether the Democrats are also "lashing" the protesters on the left to attack the Republicans. If so, where is the line?
The purpose here is not simply to point out that conservatives sometimes went too far with some demonstrations in 2009 and 2010, just as liberals nowadays set limits. The point is that both sides can be ultra-energized at times. The concern is what the sides do with that commitment.
In 2010, the then minority member of the House of Representatives, Eric Cantor, R-Va., Said he had been "directly threatened." Someone cut the gas line in a house belonging to a relative of Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va., A vandal fired a brick through the office of the late Representative Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. Someone else deposited a coffin in the front yard of the then representative. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo. Former Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, who designed an important provision on abortion that was crucial to ObamaCare's approval, received death threats.
During the ObamaCare debate, about twenty Republicans from the House of Representatives showed up on a balcony of the Capitol right next to the speaker's lobby to cheer the crowd. The current governor of Oklahoma, Mary Fallin, was then a Republican congresswoman. After his turn to encourage the masses, Fallin described the experience as "something fun."
Certainly, Democratic lawmakers have been involved in all kinds of protests in recent times. The Capitol Police even arrested Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., After she participated in a rally in Hart's Senate Office building during the summer.
Even before the Battle of Kavanaugh, congressional security officials were seeing levels of demonstrations and arrests on Capitol Hill not seen since the Watergate and Vietnam era.
Both the confirmation episode of Kavanaugh and the saga of health care are incendiary and flammable political events. People are going to get nervous. The question is, how far do they push it? And what do political leaders do to help lower the temperature?
Republican leaders did little to change things in 2009 and 2010. Democratic leaders have done very little in the midst of the current furor.
"Words have power," Pelosi said when she was a Speaker of the House in 2009, shortly after Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., Shouted "You lie!" In President Obama during a joint session of Congress on medical care.
Pelosi talked about how the political turmoil in San Francisco in 1978 led to the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to win an important elective office in the United States (the murders led to the current US Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., becoming mayor of San Francisco.)
"(The words) weigh a ton," Pelosi added. "People perceive them differently, depending on their emotional state, let's say," he said.
It may have been that the political right flared up in 2009-10. It's the left now.
Certainly, there is room for a robust debate. Some Democrats tried to vilify the anti-ObamaCare protesters at the Capitol eight and nine years ago. But most were there exercising their First Amendment rights. The same happened with the large crowd outside the Capitol during the Kavanaugh vote. Republicans may try to condemn some of them. But once again, most were there to make their voices heard under the First Amendment.
There is a difference between energetic activism and a mafia.
And as politicians on both sides can attest, the line of separation is quite thin.
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