Amazing how friendly and charming one finds one's own party's attack dogs and how the other party's attack dog should be muzzled. Good girl, Sarah. Down girl, down.
October 1, 2009
Filed at 3:24 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says anyone using harsh rhetoric to raise fears about health care reform should apologize and get on with writing policy, but said there's no reason to single out a Florida Democrat who said Republicans want sick Americans to ''die quickly.''
''If anybody's going to apologize, everybody should apologize,'' she said when asked Thursday about Rep. Alan Grayson's comments on the House floor earlier this week.
Pelosi's response reflects what Democratic aides have said privately since Grayson's remarks sparked an uproar: that Republicans have routinely said with impunity that Democrats want to ''pull the plug on grandma'' or create ''death panels'' to decide who deserves care and who doesn't.
''Apparently Republicans are holding Democrats to a higher level than they are holding their own members,'' Pelosi, D-Calif., said of Republican calls for Grayson to rescind his comments.
Harsh Hill Rhetoric Breeds Angst in Party Caucuses 
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