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Michael Goodwin: The Dems’ newest phrase into raging at the GOP is to go ‘Kill yourself’

In almost any other era, the hostile exchange between EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro would have been an instant embarrassment on Capitol Hill.

But at a time when political violence is becoming frighteningly common and widely accepted, DeLauro’s nasty suggestion that Zeldin drink a glass of weed killer marked just another day in the trenches.

Dripping with bitterness, the 83-year-old, blue-haired DeLauro is often an embarrassment to Connecticut and more sober-minded Democrats with her nutty bluster.

She outdid herself Monday, and certainly wasn’t interested in Zeldin’s factual and workmanlike testimony, saying it sounded “like a climate change denier’s manifesto.”

When he countered by citing court rulings in the EPA’s favor, she was ignorant of the cases, but in no mood to learn.

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“I don’t have to listen to this BS!” she raged.

Writing later on X, Zeldin said she “apparently believes that when you don’t have anything good to say, you should instruct the person you are debating to kill themself.”

The timing of her outburst was especially awful, given the attempted assassination of President Trump and members of his Cabinet at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

A minimum respect for atmospherics in the immediate aftermath should have led her to temper her tongue.

And yet, DeLaura’s push for Zeldin to drink a glass of weed killer illustrates how numb so many Dems are to political violence, especially when Trump and Republicans are the target, as they always are.

Either they don’t realize how crazy they sound, or don’t........

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