Newfane Draws Vicious Response for Vote to Impeach Bush

Why am I (ever so sadly) not surprised?

From the Boston Globe:

Angry calls and e-mails flooded Newfane, population 1,680, the next day. One critic sent a mock thank-you note, signed ''Usama Bin Ladin," that applauded the town for its help in ''bringing down" America. Some regular guests of the picturesque, 175-year-old Four Columns Inn notified its owners that they would never visit again.

''Shame on you," one caller said on the town clerk's voicemail. ''A little Socialist town like yourself is a disgrace to America."

Three years into the war in Iraq, with the president's approval rating at an all-time low of 34 percent last month, protests against the Bush administration are mostly small and scattered, even in the most liberal outposts.

I've seen much worse, with calls for Vermont to be listed as a terrorist stronghold, for the entire state to be audited, and for black helicopters to be sent in en masse.