In the wake of the shooting at a Republican baseball practice in June, Senate Minority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said citizens and lawmakers needed to tone down political rhetoric, or else “shame on us.”
Shame on you indeed, Dick Durbin.
On Tuesday, Durbin invoked a “murder scene” when talking about Republican healthcare reform efforts.
“This administration, if it doesn’t want its fingerprints all over a murder scene, ought to step up and join us on the basics like continuing those subsidy payments,” Durbin told reporters Tuesday.
Durbin apparently forgot his own lecture on political rhetoric after several of his Republican colleagues in Congress were at the scene of an actual attempted murder scene just more than a month ago. If it weren’t for the courage of the Capitol Police on the scene, it would have been an actual murder scene.
Everyone agrees Obamacare needs some fixing, and there are reasonable arguments for and against Obamacare and the GOP repeal bills. But let’s avoid saying the other side is guilty of murder if they get their way.
Jason Russell is the contributors editor for the Washington Examiner.
