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Any way you slice it, it’s so very sad. I hope people can resist to urge to “create your own adventure” story and let the facts come out. I fear that so much ugly is out there already that the facts won’t matter. But with some of these people, the facts never do.
Say it ain’t so …
Boehner, for one, declared that the health care bill is the “greatest threat to freedom that I have seen.” That’s some statement … And at one point during the rally — call it a Bachmannalia — when John Ratzenberger, a.k.a Cliff Clavin from “Cheers,” claimed that the Democrats were turning the United States into a land of European socialism, the audience shouted, “Nazis, Nazis.” No Republican legislator left the stage in protest. Boehner and his fellow GOP leaders should be asked how they feel about mounting a rally that attracted intense hate-mongering.
A couple years ago the husband and I traveled to DC and went on a (very lame) tour of the Capitol. After two long lines and serious, better-than-airport security, a very nice and informed gentleman took our group to approximately three rooms in the Capitol. Let me sum up the tour: big statues, big portraits, lots of shuffling. I guess we should have waited to go tomorrow when Michele Bachmann and her band of merry idiots fan out in the halls of Congress to yell at people. I’m sure patriotic fantasies of confrontations with members of Congress will dance in their heads tonight but more likely they will be shuffling and mumbling with tourists from the Midwest. Enjoy the statues.
Filed under: healthcare
Health care reform is terrorism according to Sir Cries A lot.
Filed under: civil rights
I’m not the biggest fan of hate crimes laws because, as I see it, if you kill or beat the crap out of someone, you should go to jail regardless of your motivation. But then I read something like this from Pat Robertson:
“The noose has tightened around the necks of Christians to keep them from speaking out on certain moral issues. And it all was embodied in something called the Hate crimes bill that President Obama said was a major victory for America. I’m not sure if America was the beneficiary. [...] We have voted into office a group of people who are opposed to many of the fundamental Christian beliefs of our nation. And they hold to radical ideology, and they are beginning put people sharing their points of view into high office.”
Gotta love that knee-jerk hateration. And Pat, you can still say all the cruel and hateful things you want about the gays–you just can’t beat them up for being one. Got that? And I can’t know for sure, but I think Jesus may be with me on this one.
