In the mode of "never waste a crisis" (9/11, TARP, stimulus bill, wikileaks), this will be used to stifle speech and muzzle opposition. Isn't being a federal politician statistically about the safest job in the world?
"Rep. Robert Brady is trying to put new Members and their spouses at ease by introducing legislation that would make it a federal crime to use imagery or language intended to threaten or incite violence against a Member of Congress or federal official.
“The spouses are in an uproar,” the Pennsylvania Democrat told CNN on Sunday. “They are panicking.”
He said he plans to introduce the legislation on the first day the House reconvenes. It would expand protections now afforded to the president to other civil servants."