Reposted as a service to voters of North Carolina's 2nd District
For the record, there's only one answer you need when a government bully invents a right to know who you are: "I'm a free citizen of the Republic, just like you."
I shudder at a Congressman doing this not only because it's violent, not only because it's evidence of how entitled he feels, but because it's amateurish. I want political opponents and villains* to be mature, not petulant and puerile. This is just low rent barbarism. I thought we had the best Congress money can buy. If they're going to be thuggish, can't they at least be refined about it?
(* Anyone who behaves this way is my opponent and a villain, regardless of whether they play for Team Red or Team Blue.)
(Via Michael Moynihan.)
I kept waiting for the kid in the wrist hold to break out of it. I got a litle worked up watching someone else submit to that vile barbarian.
ReplyDeleteRotate forearm, yank through the gap between his thumb and fingers while snarling a profanity. Puts people like that right back on their haunches.
Or I think i would have done that. Can't know for certain without actually being there.
Good instinct. The thumb's always the weak point, right?
ReplyDeleteI think this kid was trying to draw the foul, as it were, rather than putting Etheridge on his ass like he deserved. If so then he has more restraint than I do. (Or he's just less combative. We'll never know.)