Baird Plunges to New Depths

Southwest Washington Congressman Brian Baird just doesn’t get it.

After finally apologizing for outrageous remarks he made last week about opponents of ObamaCare, and agreeing to schedule town halls to hear from constituents, Baird reverted to the rhetorical equivalence of inserting both feet into his mouth.

At a lunch meeting of the Vancouver Rotary, several sources confirm that Baird cracked: “If there’s a Ryder truck parked outside, it’s probably for me.”  That’s obviously a thinly veiled reference to domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, to whom Baird infamously compared constituents that disagree with him last week.

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Baird Equates Town Hall Protesters to Tim McVeigh

Yesterday it was “lynch mobs” and “Brown Shirts” who wanted to “ambush” him. Today, it’s domestic terrorists:

Baird speaking with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.