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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (163654)	12/10/2009 8:00:30 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Now Longshoremen seem a bit closer to the geode00 level. If they could just get a little more vulgar.

To: jlallen who wrote (163654)	12/10/2009 3:29:38 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Probing Depth Of DemCare Demagoguery By MICHELLE MALKIN Posted 12/09/2009 06:31 PM ET How low can they go? The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance "holocaust in America" (Florida Rep. Alan Grayson), lambasted conservative health care town hall protesters as "political terrorists" (Indiana Rep. Baron Hill), sent SEIU thugs to demonstrate outside Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman's private residence and derided senior citizens questioning President Obama's fuzzy math savings claims (California Rep. Pete Stark: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine."). This week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led Democrats deeper into demagoguery by likening Republicans who object to socialized medicine to slave masters, enemies of women's suffrage and Bull Connor. Reid's rhetorical aim was worse than the unhinged Minnesota protester who threw tomatoes at Sarah Palin during a book signing and hit a police officer instead. Splat. Mustering up as much indignation as his taut face could exhibit, Reid lectured those standing in the way of Demcare: "When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down. It's too early. Things aren't bad enough.' "When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted, 'Slow down. There will be a better day to do that. Today isn't quite right.' When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today." It was the GOP that fought slavery and the Democratic Party that battled to preserve it. It was then-Democrat Strom Thurmond who led the civil rights filibuster that Reid tried to lay on Republicans. And it's the Democratic Party, not the GOP, that boasts ex-Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd among its senior leaders. But don't confuse Reid with history while he's chasing Republicans around with his "RAAAACISM!" stamp. The more the public learns about the choice-limiting, debt-exploding, bureaucracy-multiplying health care takeover, the more opposition increases. And the more unhinged the Democratic majority gets. There is now a $200,000 "bounty" on the head of U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue. Left-wing activist Web site Velvet Revolution published a want ad this week with Donohue's picture on it, soliciting information leading to "the arrest and conviction" of the business leader for "opposing progressive initiatives." The witch hunt is targeting Donohue for criticizing the costs and impact of the Dems' health care legislation on small businesses.