When The Farce Turns Ugly

Although I can't find it at the moment, it's written somewhere in the Constitution that politicians have a right to be asshats, and the Republican minority is exercising that to the max in the wake of the approval of health-care reform.

But these antics are having consequences that are not protected by the Constitution: Death threats, cut gas lines, broken windows, spitting, racial and anti-Semitic taunts, and crudely drawn noses on faxes sent to Democrats.

The lunatic fringe and the GOP have become synonymous and that's scary.