California is well known for it’s nut production. As well as it’s produce.

And here’s Nancy Pelosi to make sure we all know it.

An uncharacteristically emotional Nancy Pelosi is warning Republicans — and other groups getting whipped up over the health care debate — not to incite unstable supporters who might repeat acts of violence that struck San Francisco in the 1970s.

A top Pelosi aide later confirmed reporters’ suggestions that her statement — a reference to the City Hall murder of gay rights activist Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in Nov. 1978 — an earth-shattering experience for Bay Area Democrats like the speaker.

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Republicans — still upset at Pelosi’s charge that disruptions by town hall protesters were “un-American” — were quick to take issue.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Tx.) is the first House GOPer to take issue with Nancy Pelosi’s contention that the vehemence of anti-health care reform rhetoric could lead to a wave of violence akin to that which hit SF in the ’70s:

“Speaker Pelosi is right that the American people are upset, but it is her own words that continue to fuel voter frustration in America,” Sessions said in a statement sent to POLITICO. “No longer content with criticizing concerned citizens for being ‘un-American,’ the Speaker is now likening genuine opposition to assassination. Such insulting rhetoric not only undermines the credibility of her office, but it underscores the desperate attempt by her party to divert attention away from a failing agenda.”

Read it here.

This is who we have placed in charge of our country. Nut jobs who confuse legitimate political dissent and discontent with violence and assassination.  Feckless politicians who refer to the opposition and protesters as unhinged.  Now, where else have we heard this type of rhetoric recently?

I seem to recall is happening in Iran, where we’re cheering the protesters, and hoping they succeed in political change.

But in our country…….?