Last Call for Sanity..........All Aboard!

We cannot call this anything other than what it is.

From Mirriam-Webster dictionary:
terror - 4 : violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands .

 We have seen reports all over the news and around the blogosphere today regarding vandalism at several Democratic offices and threats made against Democratic members of Congress. These threats are being made by teabaggers and Republicans because they don't like the fact that the political direction of this country has changed.

Republican leaders and their talk-radio brethren have whipped these constituents for the last 2 decades using every boogeyman in the book, misinforming them daily and deliberately stoking their fears and discomforts of all things different.  Now they have lost what remained of their tenuous grip on reality in addition to their self-control.

The Republican party must immediately repudiate these threats and acts of violence and distance itself from the inflammatory rhetoric which is giving rise to to a new generation of domestic terrorism in this country.

Republicans have one last chance to stop this, regain their sanity and rejoin the political discussion in a rational, logical, civilized manner.  If they refuse to do so, they will be the instruments of their own self-destruction. 

Waterloo Eh?

To the Republicans I say - please run your 2010 campaigns on repealing healthcare reform.  You will find out that 2010 is not 1994, that Barack Obama is not Bill Clinton, and that the American people have begun to see you for what you really are - amoral, greedy, power-hungry, racist, sexist asshats.

After all the talk about them making healthcare Obama's Waterloo, the Rs made it their own. Unlike Napoleon, who admitted defeat after the battle, these heartless worms will be back to try again. They don't comprehend the fact that their base is diminishing, as are the old prejudices that they rely on to motivate said base.

The best thing Obama could do is put immigration reform front and center and let the Republicans do their worst. If they follow the same strategy they did with health care reform, they themselves will finish driving the nail into the coffin of the hateful monstrosity that is the modern GOP.

Hypocrisy, thy name is (fill in the blank ) - R

Watching Countdown tonight, Lawrence was showing clips from the subcommittee hearing today regarding NTHSA's relationship with the major automakers. The current head of the agency got the job in Dec. '09 and yet he was asked about actions taken (or not taken) by the agency during the past decade.

Now, anyone with a functioning brain knows the Bush administration was not known, in Texas or in Washington D.C., for fierce enforcement of regulatory standards.....on ANYTHING.  This is after all, the George W. Bush who left his governorship with Texas the #1 state in: releasing airborne industrial toxins, vioating clean water discharge standards, releasing toxic waste into underground wells, and the list goes on. 

After 6 years with a compliant republican congress, Bush had taken those eye-poppingly low standards national.....with roughly the same results. The idea that GOP congress-critters now get to scream and verbally castigate people for not doing anything, when they have been trying for decades to keep others from enforcing anything, is simply laughable. Like blaming the current President for the trillions of dollars in debt that was actually created by REPUBLICANS before he even ran for the presidency.

I guess I just found it somewhat ironic that they were hounding this guy for answers.......about things that happened BEFORE HE GOT THE JOB!  Shall we place bets to see which GOP blowhard turns up on tv first, complaining how the witnesses were not as forthcoming or cooperative as they expected....hard to do unless you expect him to make something up just to give you an answer......oh I forgot, making stuff up by pulling it from your arse is a GOP specialty.