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Tea Partiers assembled for a conference call, who included “prominent conservative policymakers Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)’s communications director Stephen Miller and Heritage Foundation research fellow Robert Rector":

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BOB FROM MAINE: I’m from Maine and our Tea Party will be meeting up next week. What is the best way that we can get our senator to listen to us?

ANOTHER CALLER: Shoot her. [laughter]

MODERATOR: Yes, we will shoot her with…(inaudible) and phone calls.

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After the anonymous statement was made, no one on the call voiced their opposition. Instead, the threat was met with laughter and “oohs.” (At the time of the incident, Sessions’ communications director had apparently left the call.)

The senator being spoken of is Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine. She’s also the highest ranked member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the senior senator from Maine. As far as Republicans go, she’s one of the last of a seemingly dying breed: a moderate. She’s been repeatedly endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, and some Republicans don’t appreciate her all that much due to a somewhat left-of-center voting record. Most people describe her as a bipartisan and centrist. You know, those people that America wishes made up all of Congress — or at least enough of it to make something useful happen.

The reason for the request to “shoot her” was her immigration reform stances. As part of comprehensive immigration reform, Susan Collins has stated that she supports immigration reform addressing the needs and rights of same-sex couples. That, and other ideals that are generally thought of as progressive, are bringing the ire of the Tea Party down on the Republican senator.

Of course, most rational people don’t jump to shooting someone as a way to coerce your opinion upon them. Leave that to the Tea Party. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/31/tea-party-suggests-us-senator-
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
AURaptor, you're an okay guy, but this is one of the many reasons people get frustrated with you around here.

Just as there is no amount of evidence that Niki can post that proves all tea-partiers think alike, there's no amount of evidence you can post that all left-wing types worship Obama.

However true it seems to you at this time, one exception disproves the rule. And if you'd take a look past the veil of "Everyone who is not a right-wing Fireflyfans poster is a terrible person" thing going on, you'd see a whole lot of exceptions.

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
AURaptor, you're an okay guy, but this is one of the many reasons people get frustrated with you around here.

Just as there is no amount of evidence that Niki can post that proves all tea-partiers think alike, there's no amount of evidence you can post that all left-wing types worship Obama.

However true it seems to you at this time, one exception disproves the rule. And if you'd take a look past the veil of "Everyone who is not a right-wing Fireflyfans poster is a terrible person" thing going on, you'd see a whole lot of exceptions.

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I bet many TEA party folks think we're taxed enough already. Kinda the whole point of the TEA party point of view in the first place. But what I can't stand is Niki's obvious and disingenuous spin, in twisting a story of some lone ,random person making an off the cuff, flippant remark, and painting the entire conservative movement in lock step fashion.

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First, the title was not my choice of words, it's the title of the article.

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No, Geezer, that represents YOUR mentality. I'm horrified by what those statements represent, as well as by the fact that the audience LAUGHED. What it says about our society makes me sick inside, and is part of the reason I post this stuff: So people realize what's going on and what's accepted in some circles these days. The very LAST thing I find any of this is amusing.

I didn't comment because I didn't think it was necessary. It seems to ME that any human being would be mortified by the continued talk of killing people because we disagree with them. Nobody DOES seem to agree, here at least and thankfully; all that's happening is people are parsing it to say "it's not so bad" or "it's not all of them". Which is bad enough.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
No, Geezer, that represents YOUR mentality. I'm horrified by what those statements represent, as well as by the fact that the audience LAUGHED. What it says about our society makes me sick inside, and is part of the reason I post this stuff: So people realize what's going on and what's accepted in some circles these days. The very LAST thing I find any of this is amusing.

I didn't comment because I didn't think it was necessary. It seems to ME that any human being would be mortified by the continued talk of killing people because we disagree with them. Nobody DOES seem to agree, here at least and thankfully; all that's happening is people are parsing it to say "it's not so bad" or "it's not all of them". Which is bad enough.

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I'd guess they laughed because they knew it was a joke. I'd suspect that whoever said it was playing off the falsehood, spawned by folks like you, that the Tea Party would actually kill anyone who disagreed with them. After they get accused of it enough, they can either get angry, or laugh at it.


"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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