The revolution is coming....the revolution is coming....
Apparently The Revolution Will Be Televised
by BarbinMD
Mon Nov 02, 2009 at 03:06:03 PM PST
Not only have Republicans lost control of their party, ceding power to the teabagging element that makes up only a fraction of the electorate, but they've lost their collective minds. Taking their cue from swastika-wielding screamers, the elected arm of the GOP is now joining in the cacophony of undemocratic, anti-American rhetoric on health care reform that is coming from the furthest right extremes of this country.
Consider Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY):
I hope this is not the way the majority leader is planning on handling the health care debate because the American people will storm the Capitol if they think the majority is going to dictate to the minority what amendments will be offered on a bill as significant as restructuring one-sixth of the economy.
And Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who is calling for a tea party-like protest in Washington:
Just like that brand new Michael Jackson movie came out, ‘This Is It.’ This is it for freedom. If you believe in liberty, and if you’re rejecting tyranny, this is it. Dr. Mark Levin wrote a seminal book that really swept this country called Liberty and Tyranny. And that’s what this debate is about next week. Liberty and tyranny.
And Virginia Foxx (R-NC):
I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country.
Threats of storming the Capitol, calling for mass protests and comparing the results of the American process of elections and legislating as worse than terrorism? These aren't cry-on-command commentators who are peddling their schtick to a gullible audience, these are elected officials of the United States government. Ones who are, by the way, more than happy with the process when it goes their way, and when it doesn't? Viva la revolution!
But in English, of course. |
