Emanuel: GOPers should drop divisiveness

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) said Wednesday that harsh anti-Democrat comments from a trio of House Republicans in recent days show the GOP “is at risk of being taken over by the voices of fear and division.” 

{mosads}Emanuel, the House Democratic Caucus chairman and former head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, also said House Republicans should repudiate recent remarks made by Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) and Randy Kuhl (R-N.Y.).

“A party so intent on dividing America is unfit to lead all of America,” Emanuel said. “And so I call on my Republican colleagues to disavow these statements. These statements are not worthy of a great nation and a great institution like the United States Congress.”

Bachmann suggested last week that Barack Obama held “anti-American” views, and Hayes said Saturday at a John McCain rally that “liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.”

The Hill reported Tuesday that Kuhl, in an August interview taped by a local television station, said that “the Democratic majority wants the American public to suffer and to hurt so that they can make some political gains at election time.”

All three GOPers are at risk of losing their seats this cycle, and Bachmann’s opponent has raised more than $1 million since she made her comments on MSNBC’s “Hardball.”