Republicans think this is funny U.S. Congressman Todd Akin, Republican of Missouri, on death threats received by a Democratic Congressman from North Carolina:
Note how his audience cheers and applauds, and how he snarkly says he doesn't approve of lynching -- while his audience laughs.
That's your Republican Party, folks. And these are the people before whom
the Obama Administration and Senate Democrats are capitulating on health care reform. These are the people Barack Obama thinks are worthy of bipartisanship -- people who would happily string him up from a tree.
Labels: lynching, racism, Republicans, sick motherfuckers, wussy-ass Democrats
What they should really be worried about is what the GOP and Blue Dog Democrats are prepared to do to them in favor of the HMOs and Big Pharma. They think in their Soylent Green conspiracy theories we're trying to kill old people when what's really going on is that this bill would take away our five cherished rights (http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009072410).
What worries me is that their screaming and typical right wing thuggery that's gobbling up air time and ink will give the rest of America the illusion that they constitute a consensus or a majority. We saw this in Miami Dade county when Tom DeLay and others sent over a dozen thugs to "protest" the vote recount in 2000.
Yes, the picture is pretty tasteless, but it is the reality of what lynching looks like. And a room full of so-called conservatives laughed out loud at the idea.
That is also a reality.
I really do not think that a majority of people are all that concerned anymore with the skin color of elected officials...
Riiiight. That's why gun sale shot up (no pun intended) starting the day Obama was elected, right? I suppose that's why there are no more black senators and why not a single one has been elected in the south since Reconstruction. Because we've all magically resolved our race issues, right?
I'm sure that'll meet with a mixed reaction south of the Mason/Dixon line.
You have a valid point on the non election of Black Senators from Southern states.
As far a decency goes, most people I believe have a common sense of decency regardless of any political persuasion. One thing I have learned in military service and taxi driving is that most people are basically the same when you get to the core. Everybody has hopes, fears, and yes some even some prejudices.
I would think further that anyone who automatically relegates anyone with differing opinions to the category of "evil" might be doing themseles a disservice. Extreme shrillness is part of the problem in this country and it comes from all sides of the political landscape. Anyway, that is just my opinion, sport.
"Democrat Party" was coined by a Republican who thought it was cute because it sounded like "rat." It is a right-wing hatemonger dogwhistle and when you use it, you blow all your credibility about being open to discussion of the "intelligent people of goodwill can disagree" variety.
Also use of words like "wingnut" "right wing hatemonger" etc. etc. ensure that only the vocal minority will take that language seriously. It could be compared to the rhetoric that Pat Robertson and his ilk spout. The only difference is the opposite extremes in ideology. Thankfully very few take Robertson seriously, but even fewer take Bolshevism seriously. Perhaps most of us discount the political extremes at our peril. After all the extremes on either Right or Left have historically led to tyranny.
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