Senator De Mint today said that conservatives might have to take to the streets to stop" the slide into socialism" in the country. Can you imagine engaging in mass action so the top 2% in wealth aren't taxed more--and only by an increase of 4% at that? John Boehner, who has that old retro black-and-white television look, cried that Obama's budget was the downpayment on a New Form of American Socialism. What did the old form look like?
Revolution was definitely in the air at CPAC. Joe the Plumber, the new Karl Rove of the GOP, said that certain congressmen should be shot for disrespecting the military. John Bolton suggested it might not be a bad thing if terrorists took out the city of Chicago. Huckabee said that the GOP now can be the party of the little guy (?). Freepers are encouraging Tea Parties to protest tax hikes--for whom, please?
One of the birther lawyers wants Obama deported when he wins his case. And Cliff Kincaid said he remembered when presidents were born in the United States and were anti-Communists and not....fill in the blank. Patrick Henry (yes, a relative) said that the GOP won the stimulus debate and would come back to power through Facebook. Rush Limbaugh again asserted he wants Obama to fail.
If you want an idea of how braindead the Republican Party is, read the list prepared by Toby Harnden of the Daily Telegraph of the 10 top anti-Obama conservatives. They run in order: 1. Rush Limbaugh, 2. Matt Drudge, 3. Sean Hannity, 4.Karl Rove, 5. Michelle Malkin, 6. Patrick Ruffini, 7. Michael Savage, 8.Ann Coulter,9. David Brooks and 10. Rick Santelli.
The last appeared on the Gordon Liddy show to suggest the Obama White House threatened him only to say this morning that it wasn't true. Now, aside from David Brooks,none of these people are thinkers, writers or conservative intellectuals in any way. In fact, the majority of them have never graduated from college. These are thought to be the "brains" of the party. I count at least 8 racketeers, people who use their media exposure simply for self-aggrandizement and profit.
These are the people that conservatives are banking on to fuel a reaction to Obama. Unfortunately, the tenor of the conservative rhetoric these days is increasingly violent. When you have adult members of Congress actually incite street actions,one should be prepared for localized acts of violence appearing.
We have had the report of neo-Nazi recruitment increasing in these perilous times as well as the resurrection of the KKK. Today a U.S. Marine was arrested for planning to shoot President Obama. Another man was arrested for sending HIV-infected blood to the White House. These episodes sky-rocketed during the fall campaign as Sarah Palin whipped up her crowds with incendiary rhetoric.
The "birthers" has been enlisting active military officers to join their lawsuit as plaintiffs. In a late night call out, one of the lawyers realized that these people risked being courtmartialed so he put out a request for JAGs to help these men. A little late in the day to be concerned about using people.
No such concern is expressed by those exploiting relatives of those slain on the U.S.S. Cole, asking them to generate letters claiming that President Obama is weak on terrorists and is releasing them. Be forewarned these are not the spontaneous eruptions of upraged citizenry but fraudulent endeavors to raise money.
The concern here really is that this brainlessness has all the ingrediants to become a home grown fascist movement. Many of these people have already abandoned the Republican Party as too compromised and weak. Others are into an alternative political fantasy world, hungering for the time that a resurgent Christian movement will emerge to restore the values of Western civilization against the regime of gays, porn and abortion. What's dangerous here is that they have access to large amounts of money and to media outlets that tend to rationalize their opinions. If our own economic situation worsens even more,these people will become a dangerous force.
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