Here is the story from the AP http://mobile.nbcactionnews.com/w/main/story/10005556/

And here's the video, you can see him reacting to being spat upon and you can see the individual in the balck tee shirt that did the spitting. Go to 1:25 into the clip.

As far as the claims of Ni**er the clip is not definitive. Clearly the larger chant is Kill the Bill however both Cleaver and Clyburn claim they heard the N-word. Note that he comes back with a cop at about 3:00 although no action is taken.

So, is it soup yet?

when a congressman says he was spit upon or was called the "n" word, i believe him. when a congressman says his office windows were shot out or he has been threatened because he is jewish, i believe him.  <<<< eric cantor. remember him? he's a republican. the main difference is you have media nuts and politicians on the right calling on people to 'storm washington', go to a person's home to intimidate him, or break windows in democratic politicians' offices. have you seen or heard of anyone on the left asking anyone to do any of these things?

teabaggers? well, yeah. that IS what they called themselves before it was pointed out to them what the term means.

yes, "teabaggers" do call the president the "n" word. i attended a tea party rally in a neighboring town last fall just to see what they really complained about and the "n" word was used rather freely. so don't tell me there isn't a racist undertone to the tea party bullshit.

rasmussen poll? somebody actually gives the rasmussen poll any credence? come on! has drudge or rasmussen ever had a poll that was not tilted to the right? likewise, does anyone give a poll conducted by chris mathews or keith olberman any credence? you know polls conducted by those two are tilted to the left.

the media lie? you mean like faux news, limbaugh, malkin, colter, beck, hannity, breibart, and many others who claim to not be media but are.

the right will retaliate by voting the dems out in november, huh? wow. after medicaid was passed (it wasn't a popular vote at the time either), it wasn't an issue in the next election. after social security was passed, the presidential candidate who said he would repeal if elected lost in a landslide. nope. not a chance in hell will the dems lose control of congress.

if the repubs have a better idea, why didn't they enact something when they hadone-party rule during the first 6 years under bush? if the individual mandate is such a bad idea, why was grassly, hatch, and others on the right wanting the same thing in their opposing proposition to healthcare reform during the failed attempt at hcr by clinton back in the early 1990's? why does massachusetts have it now? wait! wasn't it romney who championed the state run healthcare system in massachusetts?

lost freedoms? what lost freedoms? oohhhh! you mean the freedoms lost under the patriot act, right? the patriot act passed under bush and continued by obama? yeah, i can agree with you on that one. the patriot act definitely should be repealed. any lost freedoms under the hcr bill? nope. none.

oh, by the way, is there ANY doubt now as to why palin resigned as governor? to save the alaskan taxpayer money, right? you actually believe that? her resigning cost the state taxpayers more money that it would've if she had stayed. republican members of the alaskan legislature have admitted that. do you honestly believe she didn't resign so she can get the money now while she can? after november's elections, she'll fade away and won't be able to cash in like she can now. would she have the book, fox commentator job, or getting the tv show on tlc if she was still in office. nope. she resigned to get the money, nothing more. anyone who thinks she'll be the republican presidential candidate in 2012 is living in a fantasy world.

As I mentioned, the many videos prove he is lying, and since playing the race card is typically up the alley for democrats, you shouldn't believe them at all.  I haven't heard anyone on the right calling for the breaking of windows, can you cite a source?  And yes, please lookup how the Huffington Post was encouraging violence against the protesters.  

Yes of course.  The majority of polls all show the same thing.  Must be some type of VRWC.

I suppose you have no problem being forced by the hand of the IRS to purchase health insurance mandated by the federal government.  Let me guess, you are probably someone trying to benefit from it.

Yes, and I attended a progressive rally and they were all praising Karl Marx.  So they must all be marxists.

@ OldMsgt,

The guy from Newfoundland who went down to the US for surgery did so because he believed he could get better treatment there.  So?  That doesn't mean our system fails.  It just means our system needs MORE OPTIONS!

quoting myself from a previous thread...

@ Dr Guy,

I could say the same thing about the US impression of our (Canadian) Health Care System.  Here's quoting myself from another thread again...

obiwan, are you really a complete idiot? nobody on the right calling for breaking windows? what about that idiot militia dumbass from the south who admitted telling his 'followers' to break the windows of democratic officials' offices? have you not been watching the news the last few days. even faux news had that story. what about the beloved tea party idiot from minnesota, bachman, who actively called for tea party people to storm washington while appearing on hannity's show? she has done that on multiple occasions. and then you have beck saying that obama, pelosi, and reid are trying to get people to kill him.

playing the race card, huh? does that mean cantor is playing the jewish card? i highly doubt that, big fella.

the majority of polls show the same thing? those same polls show that if you ask the people who are against hcr about individual policies included int he bill, they are for it.

am i trying to benefit from it? you're truly an idiot, aren't you? i have good insurance. it's probably better than yours. purchase helath insurance mandated by the federal government? don't you purchase auto insurance madated by the government now? oh wait!! you mean the same mandated insurance purchase championed by romney, grassley, hatch, dole, nixon, and others on the right in years past? it seems to me if you had paid attention to any of the negotiations which led to the present bill, you would know that stipulation was an idea from the right, not the left.

you attended a progressive rally? liar. they were praising karl marx? again, liar.

monk, emergency rooms here are just like that. i've waited for 2 hours to get something to relieve the pain from a kidney stone.

Of course you call pull numerous sections of a 2600+ page bill and poll people on it.  Everything isn't bad, but as I mentioned, the majority of Americans do not want this bill.  

I believe your rabid anger is hindering your thought process.  No, you do purchase private insurance mandated by the government now. The health insurance mandate is unprecedented, and does not compare to any other government program.   

You sir are hilarious.  A guy with a blog on blogspot is hardly some influential leader of the "right". 

The same to you sir.  I wouldn't believe for one second a person as angry as yourself would attend anything that might hinder more government welfare.  

It really is hard to argue with someone who keeps preaching "faux news".  Silly progressive.

Maybe if there were a public option to drive the rapacious, arrogant insurance co.'s prices down and more people could get reasonable outpatient care, ER's wouldn't have to function like out-patient clinics and people wouldn't become walking train wrecks and you wouldn't have had to wait 2 hours in total agony from kidney stones MadDeez....and I'm truly sorry that did happen to you.

me angry? nope. not yet. and yes, i did attend one last october with a friend of mine who is active in the tea party 'movement'. you want mark's phone number so you can call him to verify it?

me preach 'faux news'? nada. if it weren't for shep smith, they wouldn't have a nwes department at all.

that guy with a blog is actively calling for civil unrest. i never said he was a leader of the right. i did give him as an example of some right-wing nut case, tho. but then again, he's no more of a nut case than bachman, beck, limbaugh, or palin are.

me hilarious? well, i'm not a preofessional comedian but i have been told for years that i'm good at telling jokes and humorous stories.

silly progressive? me? no. i'm a dead serious progressive.

so, you admit you buy mandated auto insurance but yet you aren't bitching about it? why not? btw, i'm not angry at all and my thought process is much clearer than yours, obviously.

also, a majority of people are for the bill when polled about indiviual processes of it. you won't see that fact on faux, though.

would i have voted for it? no. it isn't 'single payer', is it? until this country has single payer universal healthcare for everyone, we'll lag behind other countries in how we treat out citizens.

doc, you're absolutely right! on a personal note, thank you.

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson

Sadly, this is what it will be like for everyone sooner than anyone realizes (unless you get your ass elected to Congress or manage to remain at least somewhat wealthy).  The bureacratic inertia & obfuscation that develops in these 'systems' does as much as anything, if not more, to frustrate actual delivery of care that anyone would care to call 'good'.  Some people seem to think making everyone suffer equally is utopia.  There's no such thing as an adequate 'safety net' to them.  The very notion of a 'safety net' is anathema, because it implies that some people don't need one, which can't possibly be 'fair'.

I won't get into an argument here about it, but the assertion that people die 'directly attributable' to the lack of insurance is a myth - a 'correlation' proselytized as a cause-effect relationship by a group with an ideological agenda, bought into by those sharing that agenda.  And it's a bit disingenuous even if true - people will continue to die, even with Obamacare, and we'll be reading soon enough how many thousands of those deaths occurred because we don't tax ourselves enough, or spend enough, or spend it in the right way or at the right time, or that they wouldn't be dying if we had more 'oversight' by some or other understaffed bureau, or if we weren't wasting so much on the elderly's last years of life.  You can bet the farm on it.  These people believe you can't have too much government.

We've seen a microcosm of the future with the Medicaid equivalent here in Arizona - every year the paper runs a series of horror stories about the inadequacy of some aspect of Medicaid services, especially mental health care.  There follows, sure as night follows day, the obligatory government investigation & re-awarding of contracts & we start the cycle all over again.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

I've also practiced in both the VA and military systems where everyone 'has insurance' - unless you're a disabled combat vet needing state of the art prosthetics & rehab, you don't want anything to do with either.

So to those who so ardently wish for universal single-payor health care I suggest caution - you may get what you wish for and find it wanting, at which point your only alternative will be to get your ass rich.  Which, thanks to the 'help' of our isolated & insulated politicians, you won't be able to do so easily.

Sgt Arms of congress and capitol police have found no concerted effort nor did the police find anyone that did this. In fact if you watch the whole news story the congressman in question could not definitely identify this person. How about death threats to republican Congressman Kantor, his office fired at in  Virginia because he is Jewish and a Republican. Just how many have been arrested at teaThe parties across this country? How many have arrested when the G8 meet in USA those that protest at meetings on the left are more ;ikely to be prone to violence than the tea party people who come from all walks of life

You are once again sadly misinformed, or just capable of handling facts.  Auto insurance is not "mandated" as this is.  Any American, and a great portion do - choose not to have automobiles nor drive.  Regardless, auto insurance laws are to protect other drivers, so it is a pointless comparison to make.

Under this healthcare trap, every American citizen will be required by law to purchase health insurance or be fined.  You can't just choose not to have it.  You have to!

See the difference?

I'm sure if I spend but 10 minutes on the internet I can find tons of progressives inciting violence against conservatives.  Your argument is moot and weak.

As before, polling on parts of a 2600+ page bill is different than the entire boat-load that was passed through.  Think man!

Haaaha.  I'm sure you get all your "news" from the Obama-loving media too.  Silly.

Ever the master of the irrational non-sequitor.