[Skybird]

I read that not just a few, but many representatives receive threats of assassination, and letters teling them that snipers had been send out to kill their children, and that many have asked for police protection.

Several Republicans have been accused to have helped to heat up things like this. I only remind of Palin and her death camps, or claims over alleged euthanasia as a result of this bill.

Here borderlines get crossed, with friendly assistance from some who accept even means like this if they think it helps themselves to reclaim power.

If anything, this shows how totally hysteric, irrational, disconnected from reality the debate has become.

I always had the strong impression from the history books that the more serious political scandals and the more hurtful political crimes in america in the past century, after WWII, has come from the Republican camp's direction. While the Democrats also had scandals, none of them can compete with the severity of Watergate, Irangate, Iraq 2003. The extremely hate-filled climate created by Republicans even long before the bill became a hot issue, already during the election campaign, maybe one day also will be mentioned in one breath with these, due to the rifts (created by Bush) beeing deepened to an degree that I currently cannot see how this rift in American society could ever be healed again within the next generation. How could that be possible if the right, whenever it weeps for its lost powers, runs a policy of scorched earth?

I am no Obama fan, and have said that repeatedly very clearly. I was sceptic about him from the beginning, nevertheless I gave him a chance to show his line, and I got dissapointed, mainly referring to foreign policy.

But what is happening now, again is too much.

Edit:
I also remind of one thing. There are people, a majority of around 60% they say, that are against the reform. But the camp of these is split. There is a majority in this camp that is against the reform in principle. But there also is a minority in this camp that is against this reform because it is not radical enough, thus opposing it for a dcompßletely different reason. I really wonder if there really is a majority in society being against the reform in principle.