Yes, lynching is hilarious -- if you're a Republican

Republicans think this is funny

U.S. Congressman Todd Akin, Republican of Missouri, on death threats received by a Democratic Congressman from North Carolina:

Note how his audience cheers and applauds, and how he snarkly says he doesn't approve of lynching -- while his audience laughs.

That's your Republican Party, folks. And these are the people before whom the Obama Administration and Senate Democrats are capitulating on health care reform. These are the people Barack Obama thinks are worthy of bipartisanship -- people who would happily string him up from a tree.