This is one of the signs displayed at Bachmann's rally against health care. Congressman John Kline told a radio audience that about one hundred members of the Republican Conference in Congress appeared in person in outside the Capitol to support the demonstrators.
So: do lawmakers like Bachmann and her Republican colleagues have a responsibility to condemn the hate signs they see at these events? Or do they sign on to the hatred and encourage it when they fail to condemn it or even distance themselves from it?
Here's Democrat Steve Israel, Bachmann's congressional colleague from New York:
