Little Stevie Driehaus from Ohio is at risk in November, and was deemed expendable by Pelosi and Obama; he has done nothing but whine the last 10 days. First, a right wing ad (before the vote) depicted a photo of him and his children (a photo that he had previously used in his campaign)- he whined that the kids were out of bounds. OK, maybe. Today he is whining in fear because a right wing blog posted his home address. and he also whined because Boehner rightly called him a loser to Steve Chabot this fall. That’s ok, I’m sure Little Stevie was offered a cushie job in Washington next year in turn for throwing all of his values behind him, throwing his job away, and voting in direct opposition to what the citizens in the 1st congressional district of Ohio wanted.
Driehaus was mentioned in the Drudge Report article as one of those being threatened.
No violence, other than a brick through the window of the local Dem office, which I do not condone.
All of this pales, of course, in comparison to the physical abuse heaped upon conservatives over the last 10 years. Where was the media then?
Driehaus ONLY won the 1st Ohio Congressional District due to strong backlash against Bush, and the fact that he ran as a pro-life fiscal conservative. Little Stevie has shown that he is neither, having voted with Pelosi 94% of the time. Driehaus comes from the very heavily Catholic, mostly German (and conservative) west side of Cincinnati. Driehaus has nothing to fear (physically) from the citizens of Cincinnati. But we will probably never let him forget about this vote.
He might have problems, however, when around the guys he went to high school with at Elder, in the Price Hill section of the west side. Elder guys (It’s an all male Catholic HS) admire tough, stand-up men, who say what they are for and then follow through. Men of conviction. They do not tolerate wussy’s. Stevie is currently in hiding.
If it was such a great bill, why does America hate it? Why do the people who voted for it feel so stressed and threatened?
And why doesn’t the wonderful health plan cover them, as well? Why are they excluded?? Never mind, I know why...