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Vulgar tweets, and threats this week against members of the first family, things that shock the conscience. some of the people involved have come forward and apologize and said they were emotional, way out of line, but where do you draw the line with pushing buttons to try to get something done? while, i don t know if you ve ever spent any time on twitter.com shannon: [laughs] it can be a very scary place. it s terrifying. we have a civility problem, a death threat problem, i think any threat of violence or physical harm to any elected official is out-of-bounds, anyone, really. i think that these plans do show up at people s houses, i don t think that s a good idea either. i think that i hope that nobody does that to me when i go home tonight so i assume our elected officials would like to be alone as well. i think there are other channels to express frustration and i think that the incident at the mexican restaurant is a good example of sort of what can be achieved within ....
Long-time hill staffer who said in the old days freshmen would come in and the leadership would sit them down and tell them, this is how things work, and this is why this is important, and here are what the facts are, and you know, go ahead and vote, but this is how we want you to vote. with the debt ceiling fight you had all of the people coming in who had access to their own sources of information and the democra democracytation of facts, and saying that without this, the full faith and credit of the united states will happen, and all of these things will happen. no, freshmen saying that to the speaker of the house. and so that is a civility problem and respect problem, but it is also people feeling as though because they were elected and access to their own facts that they are able to do whatever is that they want regardless of what it means for the overall country. ....