Egan: Labrador, Bundys kindred spirits

Timothy Egan of the New York times says the Gang That Couldn’t Protest Straight holed up at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge is kindred spirits with Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador and other Far Right politicians who speak the same language:

But this Gang That Can’t Protest Straight is not far removed from a better-dressed crowd in Congress pushing for radical change in the nation’s public land endowment. The locked-and-loaded crazies in the Oregon high desert are using the same language as Republican legislators who want to take away an American birthright. On Wednesday, leading Republicans in Washington expressed sympathy for the ideas behind the criminal takeover. “You have a frustration that they feel the federal government is not listening to them anymore,” said Representative Raúl Labrador of Idaho, a Tea Party favorite. The goal of Labrador and other far-right politicians from the West is similar to the demands of the Bundy gang. Full column here.

Question: Did Congressman Raul Labrador step across a line when he sympathized with the sagebrush radicals who are occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore.?