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Rhetoric 
Tue Apr 20, 2010 at 06:36:24 AM MST
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One of the things that I always wonder when I see Republicans spouting guano crazy stuff is; do they really mean this or is it an act to enflame the their base? There is no way to tell as a general rule; even the half-governor of Alaska is wily enough to say some things that are guaranteed to be red meat for her Facebook followers without having to actually believe them herself.
However there are times when we do get to pull back the vale a little bit. One of those times was yesterday on the MSNBC's Ed Show. You have probably seen the clip of where Rep. Tom Tancredo called for sending the President back to Kenya since the First Lady calls Kenya his homeland. You might have seen the TMP TV clip where he tries to defend that by saying it is like saying "Let's send Carter back to Georgia". All of this makes it look like Tancredo is as serious as a heart attack about this Birther idea.
However, if you saw the whole interview (which is unavailable on line anywhere) you would have seen the opening which puts a completely different spin on things. Ed Schultz had just finished his Psycho Talk Zone segment, where he usually blasts some right-wing talker's insane blather. When Tancredo came on, was smiling and asked Ed, "What do I have to say to get into the zone?"
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Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 06:32:21 AM MST
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I have few absolutes in my life. This is by design, the fewer things that you have no bending on the greater the chance that you can find common ground and get progress on issues or even have a happy life. The two I'll talk about today are torture and political violence.
We have seen a disturbing trend in the last few months of violence based on political views. The man who flew his plane into the IRS, the assassination of Dr. Tiller for performing legal reproductive services, the killing of police officers for the supposed plan by the Obama administration to seize the guns of private citizens, the brick throwing at Democratic political offices and the cutting of gas lines at the family home of the brother of a U.S Representative whose address was posted on the internet by mistake.
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 at 07:01:07 AM MST
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Let's be clear, if a member of Congress or one of their staff is seriously assaulted, the blame will squarely lie with the Republican Party and its leadership in particular. I say seriously assaulted because Rep. Cleaver was spat upon on Sunday and that constitutes assault. But it will not be a legal culpability that the Republicans will have to bear it is the moral responsibility that they as people elected to represent and lead this nation.
We have seen some back peddling from a few Republicans, softly decrying the actions of their supporters as "nuts" or a " few isolated incidents". This, of course, completely ignores the years of ever growing rhetoric which paints their political opponents as traitors or baby killers or Socialists or Nazi's.
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