More Tea Party Thuggery

Apparently having an Obama bumper sticker is cause for road rage. Thus is the level of the thuggery that has been unleashed by the right wing rhetoric surrounding health care reform.

A Nashville, TN man had just picked up his daughter from school when he was rammed by an angry driver who pointed at the Obama bumper sticker on his car and shot him the bird. The criminal who endangered the man and his daughter, Harry Weisiger has been charged with felony reckless endangerment.

Why the rage? Well, when you have right wing pundits trying to scare the hell out of people telling them that Health Care Reform is tantamount to Nazism you can easily see the cause. The level of insanity unleashed by the right to try to stop Obama from succeeding at anything he proposes is way over the top.

Like Sarah Palin in her rallies where the crowds were whipped into a frenzy the GOP is trying to bring the "Tea Baggers" to the brink of violence. It is a dangerous gamble and it is backfiring. The incivility has become real violence and more will ensue unless and until these guys ratchet down the rhetoric and start really addressing the issues, not just pumping out fear.l