“It’s terrible that something like that happened,” said a shocked Rep. Marcia Blackburn, Tennessee Republican and a close ally of the speaker. “I’m glad that the person responsible has been caught.”
She's a close ally of the speaker? Publicly, I'm outraged. Privately, I'm very saddened it was just a crackpot that wasn't sick enough to at least give it a college try.
The spread of Ebola was his reasoning? This guy really was a crackpot. I could think of much better reasoning to plot assassination of a traitor.