It Gets Worse

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It Gets Worse
Posted by Joe Klein Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 3:20 pm


I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday--and the number of people who believe that the President has larded the government with communists (!) was astonishing. One woman said there were four known communists in the government and that she'd researched it on the internet. When I asked her afterwards, she said environmental adviser Van Jones, legal advisor Cass Sunstein (who was last spotted being excoriated by the left for supporting the FISA revisions), someone named Lloyd and she didn't remember the fourth. And wasn't it suspicious that Obama had all these czars working for him--that was a Russkie commie term, wasn't it? When I asked, the woman admitted that, among other things, she occasionally listened to William Bennett's conservative radio show. I pointed out that Bennett had once been the Drug Czar, appointed by Ronald Reagan. Life sure can be complicated sometimes.

I was later told by a local observer that many of these vomitous, disgraceful notions were the fruit of Glenn Beck's fruitful imagination. "We are living Glenn Beck's fantasy life," said this audience member. The amazing thing remains not only the unwillingness of responsible Republicans--a term that is in danger of becoming an oxymoron--to call bull-- on this, but also the willingness of many prominent Republicans to join in the slinging of garbage. Michelle Cottle reports that there are Republican-sanctioned efforts afoot to have parents not send their children to school on September 8 because the President is scheduled to address the nation's school-children that day and they are afraid that he will fill their little heads with socialist propaganda. That is somewhere well beyond disgraceful.

Could I just say that the intensity of this getting pretty scary...and dangerous? We are heading toward a cliff and the usual brakes of civil discourse are not working. Indeed, the Republicans have the pedal to the metal--rushing us toward a tragedy far greater than the California health care forum finger-biting Karen describes below. I'm usually not one to panic or be overly worried about the state of our country--even when we do awful things like invade Iraq and torture people, we usually right our course before long--but I have a sinking feeling about where we're headed now. I hope I'm wrong.

I can't even imagine where this all is going to go.

these people are scum and they are not going to change, we should know that by now. We're too damn nice. I want every damn one of these traitors to make themselves known! Scream from the rooftops assholes, we're watching!
Every time one of those assholes calls out someone as a commie or socialist, I equate that to being....reasonable, willing to help, compassionate, etc. The opposite.


I hope those ASSHATS find more "commies" the more the merrier, we need as many as we can get!

be publicly outed as insane, hateful or liars. The media needs to step up to the plate before the Obama Family is hurt and others.

Growing up in Alabama in the 1960's. Most of these tea-bagging idiots are mild in comparison to their ideological ancestors.

They are being part of the problem, not being part of the solution, being obstructionists to progress and sustainability for our country.

I really do not know what kind of end game they are playing at. What do they want, a war, a revolution, to escalate violence, to create chaos and danger for their own children?

Yes, Republicans, Ministers, Priests, Media Personalities--You have a responsibility to keep the peace when you see people acting out toward each other. You have more responsibility than the average person, so step up.