Return of right-wing rage

In Pennsylvania last week, a citizen, burly, crew-cut and trembling with rage, went nose to nose with his baffled senator: “One day God's going to stand before you, and he's going to judge you and the rest of your damned cronies up on the Hill. And then you will get your just deserts.” He was accusing Arlen Specter of being too kind to President Obama's proposals to make it easier for people to get health insurance.

In Michigan, meanwhile, the indelible image was of the father who wheeled his handicapped adult son up to Rep. John Dingell and bellowed that “under the Obama health-care plan, which you support, this man would be given no care whatsoever.” He pressed his case further on Fox News.

In New Hampshire, outside a building where Obama spoke, cameras trained on the pistol strapped to the leg of libertarian William Kostric. He then explained on CNN why the “tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of tyrants and patriots.”

It was interesting to hear a BBC reporter on the radio trying to make sense of it all. He quoted a spokesman for the conservative Americans for Tax Reform: “Either this is a genuine grass-roots response, or there's some secret evil conspirator living in a mountain somewhere orchestrating all this that I've never met.” The spokesman was arguing, of course, that it was spontaneous, yet he also proudly owned up to how his group has helped the orchestration, through sample letters to the editor and “a little bit of an ability to put one-pagers together.”

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090818/OPINION04/908180310/1054/OPINION/Return+of+right-wing+rage

You just can't talk them down.... they go flying right off the edge like lemmings. Too bad. So sad.

is he on medicaid, perhaps?? disability?? just wondering. it's amazing to me how so many of these folks don't realize what they are fighting against... or why. i think that they are so mad and afraid that their brains aren't processing information...it's lke they are paralyzed.

Are we Good Germans, or just too weak to fight back?