Majority Leader Boehner: Feingold more interested in terrorists'

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safety than Americans' safety.

Boehner said today that he wonders if Russ Feingold is more concerned with the safety of the terrorists than he is with the safety of Americans.


Rep. Boehner is the new Majority Leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, and that he said this means that there is a full court press on Feingold and us to make up look like terrorist-lovers.

(I can't find a link, but I just heard it on Hardball and on CNN. )

I have written many times here about the rhetoric on the right. I have bemoaned the manner in which the right wing talking heads say that Democrats are aiding and abetting the enemy. Well now, the leader of the Republican party in the House of Representatives is leading the charge, and we need to fill his email box, his fax machine and his voice mail with outrage.


I am appalled. This kind of talk is the reason that Americans still give the Republicans a 10 point advantage over the Democrats when it comes to national security. This is incredibly divisive and dangerous - that because Feingold is calling the President to task over spying on Americans, he is more concerned with terrorists' safety than the safety of Americans.

That the head of the House of Representatives said this is incredible. That the media meekly reported it is even more incredible. There is a full-court press on to shut up Feingold and to shut us up, and we had better be aware of it. It is disgusting, disgraceful and immoral to lie about your fellow representative in Congress the way Boehner just did.

If this disturbs you as much as it did me, please call, write, fax the numbers below - I just did, and I think I was the first the office heard from. I hope I am not the last.

Rep. Boehner
1011 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-3508
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]