Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) is under fire for raising money for Obama’s reelection campaign through a surrogate that compared Republicans to domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh.
"Given the Chairwoman’s oft-repeated desire for ‘civility’ in politics, I hope she will use her visit to repudiate her own Oklahoma Democratic Party Chairman’s recent comparison of conservatives to Timothy McVeigh."
Since being appointed to head the DNC by President Obama, Wasserman Schultz has made civility in politics one of her foremost issues. Wasserman Schultz was quoted this past January saying: "We need to make sure that we tone things down… I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards edginess and a lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement…What the Tea Party has done is they have taken it to a different level, and so when they come and disagree with you, you’re not just wrong, you’re the enemy."
Just over a month ago, Oklahoma Democrat Party Chairman Wallace Collins told Fox News…"If Timothy McVeigh were alive today, he most likely would be a Tea Partier."
Collins is not the first Democrat to compare the Tea Party to McVeigh. In 2010, former President Bill Clinton worried in a New York Times op-ed that the Tea Party could lead to more domestic terrorism.
McVeigh killed 168 people when he blew up Oklahoma City’s Murrah Federal Building. He cited opposition to the first Gulf War, the Vietnam war, and World War II, as well as big government, for his attack.