HuffPost editor Roy Sekoff appeared on "The Ed Show" Wednesday evening to talk about the Republican Party's political tactics.
Rather than learning from their defeat on health care reform and course-correcting, Sekoff argued that the GOP has doubled down on the crazy--and their divisive strategy. "I mean we saw from the very beginning, their playbook on health care has been two things. It's been fear-mongering and untruths. And this attack on Representative Dingell is the perfect blend of both of these things. It's this crazy fear-mongering that they want to take over your health care, they want to take over your government. It's the socialism... they have not learned the lesson of their defeat and course corrected. Instead, they're going all in."
Asked whether Democrats have anything to gain by appearing on Fox News, Sekoff said that he hates to think of guests preaching to their respective choirs, but that some of the imagery used by the right has crossed the line and hurt political debate. "I wouldn't want to have this kind of thing where we just go to our corners and don't come out fighting. I think it's a good exercise to really exchange ideas and be open to them, But not this kind of crazy bomb throwing, you know with imagery of Nancy Pelosi standing in front of a fire, and this gun imagery."
Sekoff told Schultz that he believes Obama learned from the Massachusetts Senate race and dropped his "obsession" with bipartisanship. He thinks that eventually the Republican Party will be revealed for what they are, "a party of no ideas, no solutions, at a time when we need them most."
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There is no excuse for such behavior and to believe one can bully/coerce the citizens of this country into believing what you believe is a myth.
But now, it has vectored out of control. The insane ranting of Glenn Beck (just watch Jon Stewart of the Daily Show reveal the insanity), the extreme hyperbole of Limbaugh, and the serial lying of Fox News will not stop. And the Tea Party folks, so enraged and so indoctrinated by the pied pipers from Fox and the GOP, will not stand aside and move on
(READ FULL POST: http://dh1976.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/the-tea-party-more-like-the-taliban-by-the-day/)
Just like old times
So I stole a quote ("You lie") and attached the section from another HP story that came from the Charlotte paper and cites the comments of the VA Teabagger who posted the Congressman's (brother's) address, and sent it in an e-mail. I doubt the slimeball will respond. He's too stupid and detached to have a grasp on reality.
"You can't fix STUPID!"
To threaten another's children, to issue death threats, to stand on the "beach" and encourage behavior such as they have, goes beyond anything I have ever seen. Yesterday, the teabagger from TX, on Dylan Rattigan, said he does not condone name calling. I expressly remember seeing him in Dallas holding a sign calling Obama a N....r . Earlier today, the Teabagger from Lynchburg said he doesn't condone violence, yet when responding to the mixup of addresses, he said "oh well, collateral damage". For a group so opposed to the unborn, they seem to have absolutely no regard for the living.
Is the MSM going to let the lies and distortions stand, or is it completely up to us?
Again and again.
What the "teabaggers" are doing are nothing like what happened in Germany in the thirdys or 1930's.
This started with the media - both sides constantly reporting on this "phenomenon." Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, Bachmann and the rest just stoked it to fever pitch and we are now seeing the results. They claim to be "real Americans" who are going to "take back their country" and "stop government from shoving (fill in the blank) down their throats."
First of all "real Americans" (whatever that means - I always assumed that if you were born here or a naturalized citizen you were real American) do not back tyranny (the rule or the one or few doing as the see fit regardless of how it impacts the majority) nor do the back an oligarchy (rule of the few over the many) nor do they incite violence.
One of the things I have head over the years is how proud we are that our transfer of power was peaceful - I guess they don't believe in that either.
....it was "not" a minority's voice....sounded like southern good ole boyz.
It's called treason and subversion, not free speech. It was brought into the mainstream by Palin from the campaign stump and her divide of the "Real America" and the love showered on her by the American Press.
She incited the hillbillies and those hillbillies have now formed a tea bag misfit subversive party who are Republicans.
It is stoked by bottom feeders of the Republican party, insane Beck, hate radio Limp-baugh, Republican lawmakers who have gone rabid and most of the militia "terrorists types" who have been hiding within this misguided tea party ignorants and hiding behind their skirts, and again shown love and attention by the American Press.
The MSM has sold their souls for a juicy story of hate and subversion. They should be made to pay.
CORRECTION: The tea bag movement is astroturf. It was promoted, nurtured and nursed by Faux News and that former Texas congressman turned lobbyist, (can't remember his damned name right now). This has never been anything more than the far right media and corporate bag men using naive, gullible and deluded citizens as puppets.