What a disgrace!

On the day before one of the most sweeping political changes called the health bill, was set to be voted on, a most historic day, three US Representatives, public servants, were subject to the most vile display one could imagine. In Washington, DC, Representatives Andre Carson, D-IN., John Lewis, D-GA., a leader of the civil rights era, and Barney Frank, D-MA., were the target of heckling by health bill opponents that went well beyond protest, to the point of verbal and physical assault.
I have no issue with protesting. I understand that this bill for many different reasons has raised the stakes but to do what was done to these gentleman make me embarrassed to be an American today. Representatives Carson and Lewis, African-Americans were taunted with the word “nigger” more than 15 times by the count of security personnel there. Representative Frank was repeatedly called a “faggot” by protesters. Representative Lewis reported being spit on by this mob. I am embarrassed to be a citizen of the same country as these protesters.
Politico published details of these episodes and the was a series of right wing commentary saying they thought the report was exaggerated and many people felt that these protestors were planted by President Obama and the Democratic Party. People, please… President Obama would support people spitting at and calling constituents of his party vile, indescribably vulgar names to what end? I am embarrassed…
These protesters, these ignorant teabaggers, these vile and wretched people are the lowest of the low in this country. After taunting a man with Parkinson’s disease earlier in the week, I thought there was no lower form of life worse than these idiots but I was wrong. There was worse to come and they showed themselves on Saturday and Sunday, showed themselves for just what they are. I am embarrassed. So stupid, they understand the connotations of the word they themselves originally called their group– teabaggers (look up teabaggers in the urban dictionary if you want to know the connotation.) So ignorant, they have become walking billboards for what is wrong with the American education system. So dumb, they act like little “sheeple” under the influence of the far right, ultra conservative, fear mongers they follow blindly. I am so embarrassed.
Rep. Andre Carson, Rep. John Lewis, Rep. Barney Frank, let me offer to you an apology. The haters do not know what they are doing, they have been led to this brink of inhumanity by those who hate even more, who are selfish and angry and blinded by their own inadequacies and ambitions. Representatives, I am sorry for the behavior of these idiots. Please continue to represent the American people, continue to try to do what is best for us, even if there are some who wouldn’t recognize what is best for them if it slapped them in the face. Forgive and forget, and take solace in the fact that with your support, more Americans, more needy Americans, children and those in poverty, will get this health care benefit and protection. Please continue with your work.
I am embarrassed by these people and wish to disassociate myself from their kind, from these teabaggers, these haters, this scum of the earth.