Apparently that civility doesn’t apply to Dems.
Last week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told us she was in the room when Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes. Last night on MSNBC, she said Giffords has been making exciting improvements, including, at one point, somehow giving her husband a neck massage.
This weekend, the usually pointed congresswoman took to the Sunday talk shows a new message of thoughtful political discourse. And though she didn’t reprimand anyone specifically, she cited the upcoming health-care reform repeal bill as an example of the kind of discourse she found distasteful. […]
She went on to talk for nearly a minute about her hope for the future of political rhetoric:
“I think all of us need to be more careful about the words that we choose to use, including things like the title of the repeal of health-care reform. I’m glad that Speaker Boehner chose to verbalize a different title for that bill, but they, so far, have refused to actually change the title of ‘Job-Killing Healthcare Repeal.’ I think we need to be leaders by example, and when we do that, then hopefully we’re gonna be able to push the shock jocks and others outside our process to take a page from our book. And if we have a more productive civil discourse, then we can really live up to President Obama’s words and Christina Taylor Green’s dreams, her expectations for our democracy.”