Just days after another GOP candidate was criticized for prancing around in a Nazi uniform, Wisconsin Republican state Senate candidate Dane Deutsch has been criticized for calling Adolph Hitler a “strong leader.”
Deutsch sent a tweet stating “Hitler and Lincoln were both strong leaders. Lincoln’s character made him the greater leader whose legacy and leadership still lives on!” For a guy named Deutsch, it played directly into his opponent’s hands who lambasted him for the tweet.
He later insisted that he was merely stating Hitler had a great influence on people. He insists that he was pointing out the difference between a leader with an evil and a leader with a righteous character — the latter having a more lasting legacy. That is a plausible explanation but Twitter is not the best means to make such profound thoughts in 140 characters or less. That may be a more Facebook chat item for the future.
Source; Tribune
Byron:
Somewhat to your point,our governor dosen’t seem to associate himself with the tea party but he seems to be in the same mode,cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Case in point him killing this project that would have helped transportation and create at least thousands of jobs,and he is a rock star in those tea party like circles.
N.J. Gov. Christie to cancel Hudson River tunnel, blaming feds’ refusal to increase funding
Published: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:00 AM
Star-Ledger Staff Star-Ledger Staff
christie-speaking.JPGAndrew Mills/The Star-LedgerGov. Chris Christie is expected to cancel the ARC tunnel project today, claiming the federal government won’t take on their share of the increased costs.
The Hudson River train tunnel, a dream of many New Jersey commuters, politicians and planners for decades, will die a second death today.
And this time, there will be no reprieve.
Gov. Chris Christie today is expected to again terminate the multi-billion dollar project, arguing that New Jersey cannot afford it and that the federal government is unwilling to increase its share of the costs, four officials close to the project said.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/10/nj_gov_christie_to_cancel_huds.html
I would ask why are you all so afraid of the Tea Party? Your fear is palpable. Although not a Tea Partier, I do know people that go to the rallies and I have browsed some sites that have pictures of the rallies. I have never read any Tea Party manifestos or talking points and my information comes only from signs I have seen on the web.
But most of the signs appear to be about restoring the Constitution, limiting government at all levels and reducing the amount of taxes we pay. It seems to me those are reasonable ideas. The problem, at least in my mind, is not the ideas put forth but the possibility of the party being hijacked by either country club republicans or the religious right. Country club republicans would do what they have done for years-rubber stamp liberal programs. The religious right speaks for itself and as a group is probably worse than Obama and his crowd.
The Biggest Misstatements of the Midterms
A roundup of the most widely repeated falsehoods or misleading claims of the 2010 campaign.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/26/the-biggest-misstatements-of-the-midterms.html
Unfortunately, the TeaParty will be with us for many years. It’s an expression of a strong tendency in American culture: distrust and fear of the federal govt. This is so strong in our country, that several TeaParty-connected candidates have suggested armed revolt if the 2012 election results are not to their liking.
tomdarch- You have just put into print the finest analysis of the tea party zealots that I have ever seen. I think Europeans (and many of us here) view America with sadness when they think of what we were and of what we appear to be today. The nation that appeared to be able to accomplish anything in the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s today builds it’s 12th aircraft carrier (with 2 more planned) so we can meddle around the world while we lay off teachers, firemen, emt’s, and cops and bankrupt ourselves in two pointless wars that we can’t leave because “it will make us look weak”. Television networks that once gave us Murrow, Cronkite, Huntley, and Brinkley, now run like Olympicic sprinters toward the most stupid man or woman they can find to breathlessly ask for their moronic opinion on whether they think Lindsay Lohan should go back to rehab. Our parks deteriorate while Congress passes a law so that we can all carry guns into our national parks- but that’s o.k. because we can see geysers in our own hometowns when the water from the broken water pipe comes blasting up through the crumbling street. We can only hope that in a year or two the tea party will be as forgotten as Elian Gonzales.
Swarthmore,
I was never on the fence. I was explaining why people dislike Bennett.
sounds like twitters 140 characters or less sums up this guys thought processes about right.
I meant Ken Buck
So the “Tea Party” is really just the historic core of the Republican party – mouth-frothing, frightened, “low information” and selfish. Our current political climate combines: the obvious failure of the Bush administration, economic stress and uncertainty and our first “black” President. These factors have combined to really whip these folks into a frenzy. Ironically, the “lamestream” media have promoted the Tea Party to the point where they feel that they can be “out”.
The end result of this is that people who have guarded their words in public for decades not feel that it’s just fine to be honest. They’ve been thinking these things and whispering them to each other for years: Hitler was a great leader… gay people are bad… Hispanic people are bad… Muslims are bad… I’m well enough off that I don’t need the social safety net, so let poor/elderly people starve… Anything that isn’t hyper-capitalism must be Communism… Ignore the humanistic Constitution and impose a Christian version of Sharia… If we don’t get what we want, we’ll use our guns to get it…
The “silver lining” here is that they’ve taken their masks off and they’re putting all this down on the record. The fact that there are very few younger people overtly involved in Tea Party events makes me hopeful that this is the “last hurrah” of the far right in America. If we’re lucky, today’s teenagers and young adults will look back on this unmasking of the far right with shame an horror and move America back to the center* for then next couple of generations.
(* Not the center of the current US political spectrum, but the center of the “real”, global political spectrum. The current “far left” in the US is somewhere slightly left of center compared with the rest of the world. Today, we can only imagine what it would be like to have CNN or MSNBC bring an actual Socialist or Communist in to critique the supposedly “Marxist” President Obama.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/ken-buck-separation-church-state_n_774023.html Ken Buvk is against the separation of church and state. This for Gyges. Are you still on the fence?
Byron,
I was hoping someone would take the bait on that one. Thank you.
By the way, if you can get your hands on it Left Hand makes the best domestic Octoberfest I’ve tried.
Gyges:
LOL, my mistake. 🙂
Byron,
I’m allergic to coffee.
Gyges:
“Mespo,
Donald Duck and a cup of coffee are both mentioned in this sentence, the difference is that I can drink one.”
that is patently false, you can drink both:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/19046/saturday-night-live-bassomatic
“anon nurse
1, October 26, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Correction: I’m still hoping for some sort of October surprise that will tip the scales for the Dems.”
That depends on the media.
Correction: I’m still hoping for some sort of October surprise that will tip the scales for the Dems.
I’m still hoping for some sort October surprise that will tip the scales for the Dems.
FYI:
In 2008 Barack Obama soared to victory on the promise of change, and experts declared that a new era of Democratic dominance had begun. Now, only two years later, it looks as though voters want change again. On Nov. 2, Republicans are likely to regain control of the House and come close to winning back the Senate. But while conservatives are already trumpeting the 2010 midterms as a historic validation of their agenda, the truth, as in 2008, is considerably more nuanced. An in-depth report on what a resurgent Republican Party will—and won’t—be able to accomplish over the next two years.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/25/what-a-gop-takeover-will-mean.html?GT1=43002
Mespo,
Donald Duck and a cup of coffee are both mentioned in this sentence, the difference is that I can drink one.
AA:
Without going into detail, from my very uncomfortable position, we are apparently not “civilized enough.”
There are things going on below that radar of many — things that are difficult to believe, and so they go unchecked. I’m seeing things firsthand that shouldn’t go on anywhere, but certainly not here.