Aftermath of a Hangin'

Following up on John Boehner's Hang Speaker Pelosi comment, Democrats are certainly trying to make the Republican Minority Leader pay. Hoyer, Emanuel, Clyburn, Schakowsky, and Wasserman-Schultz are all out with comments, joining the early outrage from George Miller and this one from Ed Markey:

Assertions of physical violence toward the Speaker of the House have no place in the halls of Congress. Period. After a week stuck in an echo-chamber of their own making, this group of Republicans has turned ugly. Democracy is about settling differences through debate, without violence. It is unfortunate that the Minority Leader allowed violence to creep into his overheated rhetoric.

Checking Google News, the Politico, Roll Call, The Hill and the Chicago Tribune's politics blog have stories up about this. In other words, this hasn't broken through yet.

And I just don't think it will. Because after all, we're talking about a Republican threatening violence to a Democrat. This doesn't raise eyebrows in Washington. It just doesn't.

(to say nothing of the violence against women aspects)