Talking Points Memo published a story today with the following headline:
GOP Rep. Rigell Denounces Klayman's Call To Wage An Uprising
The article states that Rep. Scott Rigell, a Republican from Virginia's second congressional district, does not advocate overthrowing the U.S. government.
In 2013 America, a Republican member of Congress who unequivocally states that he is not in favor of a coup d'etat merits a headline. That's how crazy the Republican Party has become.
Rigell also says this:
I refer to the President as the President in my home, in my office, and in my district. And I think this needs to be done all across America.
This is an oblique reference to birtherism. You see, birthers don't acknowledge that Barack Obama is the legitimate President of the United States. On their blogs, they write things like 'pResident Barack Hussein Obama.' Get it? pResident? He is the 'Resident' of the White House, but not the 'President' of the United States. Haha. Or they call him Barry Soetoro, the name under which he was registered in grade school as a child in Indonesia. Or 'de facto President' or 'the person currently occupying the office of President of the United States.' Rep. Rigell isn't playing birther games.
Rep. Rigell also says this:
Look, civility is not weakness. [...] It's not about an individual. It's about the office and this is the fabric that holds us together as Americans."
Kudos to Rep. Rigell for being respectful and reasonable in the face of the outrageously disrespectful and unreasonable lunatic fringe of his party.
Civility is not a weakness.