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From the Los Angeles Times website today - Republicans Walk The Line Over Healthcare Outrage

The story is predictable in its tone and condemnation of Republican actions in the wake of the health care vote. An excerpt for your viewing pleasure.

The GOP wants nothing more than to ride to victory this November the wave of anger stirred by President Obama's expansion of the federal government -- much of it from the burgeoning "tea party" movement. But as the ire turned ugly, Democrats questioned whether the GOP had crossed the line between loyal opposition and reckless provocation.

Oh, I must have missed the part where Republican lawmakers have encouraged violent protests. That is because they haven't.

Here are some of the despicable things Republicans have said in the recent days.

Opinion leaders have urged healthcare opponents to fight on in what some heard as "coded rhetoric" -- Sarah Palin's tweet: "Don't Retreat, Instead -- RELOAD!" and national Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele's wish to see House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on "the firing line."

Oh my god, RELOAD? Jesus, she said RELOAD! That must mean that I need to grab my gun and march on the Capitol! Christ, haven't any of these people ever read a sports page? Last year, instead of "rebuilding" its linebacking corp after losing three of their stars to the pros, numerous sports reporters said that the USC Trojans "reloaded" their linebacking corp and were ready to defend their Pac-10 title (sadly, for you Trojan fans, it really was a rebuilding year).

And as for "firing line," I mean, c'mon. We're now reaching for the phrase "coded rhetoric" in order to attempt to smear legitimate debate? Geez, given these standards, William F. Buckley would have had to rename his old show. For those of you who don't know, it was called "Firing Line."

Somewhere not mentioned in the article are two public opinion polls that could explain why the rhetoric has become more heated in the last few days. The CNN poll which stated that 59% of America did not want this health care bill. And the Rasmussen poll released today that said 55% of the people would like the bill repealed.

Generally, when you do something that 59% of the people don't want done, they get angry. Now, I don't condone violence in any way but the fact remains that in a country of 300 million (give or take if you're counting illegals or not), there are going to be some nutjobs on both sides of the aisle who do stupid things. But the majority of Americans are content to express their feelings peacefully at the ballot box and I am confident that they will do so in November.

Now, if the press were really interested in explaining the anger, they would be forced to confront the fact that the majority of the American people think this bill is a turd and that their elected officials defied their will and foisted it upon them anyway. But that would disrupt their narrative that the GOP is full of right wing violent extremists and can't be trusted. Luckily, the majority of Americans don't get their news from the MSM any more. They have other outlets and they know what is going on. And this why they're angry because they know when they're being lied to.

The MSM is full of morons who are not so much interested in reporting the news as they are in driving home a certain liberal narrative. Now, if they want to drive home a liberal narrative, they should just go work for the DNC.