Virginia Senate Democrats launch hateful attack
By Brian Kirwin | Saturday, December 11th, 2010 | PolicyVirginia Senate Democrats have crossed the line. We at Bearing Drift feel a certain amount of sympathy, and hope they can get professional counseling before the General Assembly session starts so we can have a certain amount of decorum in Richmond.
The least they can do is apologize.
Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple (born in Obama’s Illinois), whose greatest political accomplishment thus far is giving Washington Capitals fans their own license plate, launched her hatefilled diatribe by letter, linked here at the Democratic journal of record, the Washington Post.
Some choice Whipple quotes, mostly about the citizen-formed Tea Parties:
“pushing their radical agenda into our state.”
“see unemployed Virginians as the enemy”
“seek to change the very fabric of our state’s government.”
“We must not allow them to bring their “revolution” to Virginia.”
“the Democratic Senate remaining as the last bastion of sanity in Virginia’s state government”
So, everyone else is insane? Democrats call the Governor insane? The members of the House are insane?
Amazing! A Virginia Senator resorting to hateful namecalling.
Radical agenda? What would you call your anti-Second amendment, pro-tax agenda?
And as far as the unemployed, it is the Democrats who seem to only like unemployed people as long as they stay unemployed.
Once they are employed again, you want to hit them with higher taxes.
We Republicans want them to have jobs again.
The unemployed aren’t the enemy. YOU ARE!
Hey, Whipple. If your party nominated a decent candidate, maybe there wouldn’t have been twice as many unemployed people as there was when he took office.
Maybe if your party was more interested in creating jobs for people than writing measly, insufficient unemployment checks, we’d be on our way to economic recovery instead of where we are stuck now.
When you send your public apology to the Governor and the rest of your fellow legislators for your thoughtless and hateful remarks, we will print it here.
We’re waiting.
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25 Responses to "Virginia Senate Democrats launch hateful attack"
Sounds like the Senate Democrats are boiling down to their most radical members. Disgusting.
I have several liberal democrat relatives who are equally fed up if I am to believe them.
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Interesting. Whipple is basically saying that all Republicans are insane.
Good to know.
…not that she doesn’t have a fair point in some instances.
Mary Margaret Whipple? Sounds like the name of one of the nun teachers I had in Catholic school. Like Sister Mary Euthanasia.
Do elaborate as to where she has a “fair point”, Shaun. I’d be interested in hearing that.
Britt, I think some of the stuff that some Republicans have said – like Catherine Crabill – can raise some questions about sanity. But that’s a personal thing, not indicative of the party. It’s only the Democrats ridiculous elitism and snobbery that would let them put something like that on paper.
so Louise Lucas is part of the Dem “sanity”? okey dokey
Typical “bomb throwing” rhetoric when they start realizing that they can’t have their way with us. Dogbert once said: “Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane”.
After reading this article that categorized Sen. Mary Margaret Whipple’s speech as being hateful and deserving of an apology I have not been able to find anything hateful about it. You are saying Ms Whipple’s
use of the word “SANITY” is hateful. Could you please explain what the word “Hateful” means. If you used the word “Disparaging” I might agree that she thought the Tea Party very extreme in their thinking. My conclusion is you needed the one word, “Sanity” to be the basis for your article. Sounds kind of childish to me.
Louexis, generally, it’s not considered a sign of love or respect to call folks insane. In fact, I consider it to be pretty hateful – it’s not something I would say to a friend and mean it.
Well, more offensive is the part where they are the enemy of the unemployed. Pretty hateful to falsely accuse someone of warring against people unfortunate enough to have lost their jobs.
I guess the claim of they being the only ones to be sane goes with partisanship. If you have conviction in your belief, you probably think it a bit crazy to think otherwise. However, I might be overly generous in her case. I would normally prefer to hear the tone of voice.
Then she basically says they will ruin our government and shows obvious disgust and willingness to demonize. Kinda close to hate there.
But we know that isn’t possible. Conservatives and Tea Partiers are the only ones capable of “hate”. Right Louexis?
The biggest error here is in assuming the Tea Party is the Republican Party. The Tea Party is NOT the Republican Party, it’s non-partisan, and the Democrats could easily have Tea Party backing if they played their cards right.
Brian no matter how you slice it. People who hate want to hate and the fact that you wrote the article is one indication that you hate the Democratic party and the 1/2 the population they represent. I have been to a Tea Party meeting in the period right after President Obama was elected and before they were organized nationally. Believe me!! I could hear the hate, feel the hate, and almost reach out and touch the hate generated there against President Obama. I didn’t go there to hate. I went there to observe. The fact is I consider “HATE” to be the worst word in the English language. So you can go on hating. It is your privilege but it is not my choose.
The fact is there ARE Democrats in the Tea Party. Whipple paints her own Democrats with the same broad brush.
@ Louexis, there may be some hate, but I would suggest that 99% of what you saw was passion and an absolute conviction that Obamacare, Cap & Trade, Bailouts, and spending would greatly damage our economy and freedoms. “Hate” to break it to ya, but there were Democrats out there too. I guess they were haters too?
The Tea Party didn’t come up with sexually charged disgusting descriptions of Democrats. Who is after all, that hates so much that they label people using the first amendment as “tea baggers”? How disgusting.
In general Tea Partiers have acted responsibily. So much so, the Left has had to search for or even plant nut cases in order to demonize them and we all know it.
Loserexis,
I do not hate.
Louexis, the reason the democrats establishment chose to back Obama over the vastly more qualified Hillary Clinton was because they knew they could exploit Obamas race and minority heritage to their advantage in order to pass partisan bills and spending for their districts. Yes I said that, not mincing words. Race was a major factor, I challenge you to be honest enough with yourself to get in touch with the truth.. white & black dem alike knew this strategy would work because lily white republicans walked on egg shells to prevent being cast as a racist because it is so often a carreer killer. That worked in 08, the card was played and now we are in a new era.. minority status was intimidating and now it is so over exploited that an expanding number of thinking minorities are as nauseated as the lily white republican majority.
Obamacare is another name for pelosicare or reidcare or hillarycare but opposition to obamacare is to risk being accused of racism.. er, it was.. Same is/was true for bailouts, crap & trade, etc.. This marks the end of an era and a failed experiment.
I stand by my words.
I believe that this problem is bigger than just Sen. Whipple but it orignates up in DC when you have the President call the opposition party “hostage takers” and then now you have a member of congress Rep. Nadler (NY) who calls the oppostion party “gangsters”.
Matt,
a brilliant point.
louexis,
“…the Democratic party and the 1/2 the population they represent.”
Bullshit. According to the Gallup Poll, only 34% of all voters self-identify as Democrats. 28% self-identify as Republicans. The largest block, 38%, self-identify as Independents.
If your party really represented one-half of the population, then they wouldn’t have lost 63 seats in the House last month.
Brian, The use of the word Sanity by Ms Whipple was in a rhetorical way. Your use of the word sanity is in a personal way as if she was saying every Republican Senator was insane. Please tell me which manner of the use of the word makes more sense. One other thing. I personally think the word HATE is the worst word in the English language
No wonder louexis doesn’t use his/her real name…
Louexis, I don’t think there are any bad words or good words – words are words. They gain their power in the way we use them. When an elected official claims that the Senate, by virtue of it’s being controlled by Democrats, is the only “sane” body in the government, she’s, in effect, calling the rest of the government insane. That’s ridiculous. She may disagree with what they do, and she may argue that they make bad policy decisions, but there’s nothing insane about disagreement.
Yes, she may have meant it in a rhetorical way, but that doesn’t make it okay. It’s just as bad as if she had said replaced sane with “intelligent,” or some other descriptor. It’s offensive.
The Thought Police would disagree with you Brian S.! Wait for a new version of the Fainess Doctrine or Obama’s wish to further regulate social media and determine who is a journalist or what is politically correct. Then you will know there are good and bad words.
The next TSA heavy petting search might just be in your diary, your hard drive, and your brain. :p
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