Submitted By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
The wrath from the right has been scortching ever since VP Joe Biden commented that certain freshman tea party congressmen were acting “like terrorists” in negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. There was equally no love lost when John McClain commented that the tea party freshman were acting as “deceivers” and their ideas were “bizarro.”
Now Tea Party freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) (No, not the one with the Maserati that goes 185) has produced his own video decrying the incivility and telling us that “Vice President Biden, I’m not a terrorist. Terrorists target and kill people.” You can watch the lament here.
While the language employed by the VP was quite over the top, and especially so given Biden’s challenge to introduce more civility into public discourse, our freshman congressman fails to see the irony of his words. No one suggests the Tea Partiers are calling for mass extinction of liberals or undocumented aliens, or gays or the poor. But what do they want?
Here’s Nevada GOP Senate Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle on the frustration of her comrades:
“I hope that’s not where we’re going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.”
Some Tea Party candidates are a tad less discrete in their call for violence. Here’s Texas Tea Party candidate Stephen Broden, “Our nation was founded on violence. The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.”
Alaska Tea Party candidate Joe Miller found a lot to like in East Germany’s “checkpoint Charlie” system of stemming the tide of freedom-seekers “immigrating” to West Berlin during the Cold War:
“The first thing that has to be done is secure the border … East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. Now, obviously, other things were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany could, we could.”
And the Tea Party has a thing or two to say to liberals about the notion of any separation between church and state:
“Do you know, where does this phrase ‘separation of church and state’ come from? It was not in Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists. … The exact phrase ‘separation of Church and State’ came out of Adolph Hitler’s mouth, that’s where it comes from. So the next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State, ask them why they’re Nazis.” —Glen Urquhart, the Tea Party-backed Republican nominee for the Delaware House seat. You can even watch him here.
And then there’s that “witchy woman,” Delaware’s own Christine O’Donnell, who, when questioned about whether the Constitution calls for separation of church and state during a debate before an audience of legal scholars and law students at Widener University Law School delightfully noted, “You’re telling me that’s in the First Amendment?” Ahems were heard around the world on that one.
New York Tea Party darling Carl Paladino had this suggestion for the poor:
“Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we’ll teach people how to earn their check. We’ll teach them personal hygiene … the personal things they don’t get when they come from dysfunctional homes. These (prisons) are beautiful properties with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities. You have to teach them basic things — taking care of themselves, physical fitness. In their dysfunctional environment, they never learned these things.”
Then there’s the First Lady of the Tea Party, Michele Bachmann, sharing all the inside dope on what it really means to be gay (no husband jokes, please):
“If you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage. It is personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement.” — then Minn. state senator Michele Bachmann
There’s scores more and they deal with all manner of insensitivity to the poor, immigrants, the 45000 Americans who die every year from inadequate health care, and just about everyone else the right likes to pillory.
Now most of these quotes were from losers in their electoral races and maybe they represent only the most extreme dunces the Tea Party has produced, but that’s not really the point is it? The point is that while the far-out Right might be justly indignant for the rhetorical excesses of the Left, they can’t seem to find the words to decry the excesses of their own camp.
There’s a word for that.
Source: Huffington Post
~Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Just look at the mess you’ve caused, Howington.
BTW, I am posting under my name.
And Buddha inadvertently lost his anonymity when you and the others slipped up during the transition phase to GeneH. Can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
Waiting … waiting
FFLEO,
Please, there is no need for you to do that. It is the policy of this blog to respect anonymous postings. The disruptive behavior of this group of trolls has not gone unnoticed nor will it be allowed to continue unabated for much longer.
Trolls,
“They have access to yours too.”
Which none of the editors reveal publicly as is the policy of this blog in respecting anonymous posting. A policy that the only people who seem to have a problem with it are . . . the anonymous trolls. Go figure.
There’s a word for that.
Now what was this thread about again?
The bottom line is the JT respects pete’s, FFLEO’s and your right to post anonymously just as he respects Buddha Is Laughing’s right to post anonymously. The only people he asks use their real names are Guest Bloggers. I am using my real name. If you have a problem with the anonymity policy of this blog or his selection in guest blogger, I suggest you take it up with the blog’s owner.
Byron Is Laughing,
“I’m your Huckleberry.” Here are the conditions. You post your actual (not spoofed, verifiable, et cetera) e-mail and IP address along with mine.
Caveat: Professor Turley has stated that he ensures that he would not allow the release such information because there are lawyers, judges, and others who need to post herein anonymously. Therefore, you will be violating a basic tenet of this blawg in his absence. Breaking that trust might cause people far more important than I am to discontinue posting here.
If I get an increase in Spam because of your action, I will request assistance from Professor Turley to do what he can to remedy the situation, regarding you.
@pete
I can do that pete. Why would I bother? Elaine, Mark, Larry, David, Mike, Jonathan, and Buddha/Gene already have access to it. They have access to yours too.
Come on … I took the pledge … you guys are making it very difficult
I didn’t know Gene was short for Eugene … I learned something today
Lottakatz … I remember BB’s … we called them “message boards” … I ran one for a year or so back in the 90’s … it was like the wild west.
post your own while you’re at it, o brave one.
FFLEO, I could not want better company for a simultaneous posting. That is sure some coincidence unless of course we are the same poster. Kinda’ suspicious eh. 🙂
FFL:
Had made a similar statement early on when this person started to become noticeable,why raise your blood pressure.
“. Kderosa generates an abundance of discussion, most of which I ignore. However, something is vastly amiss when extremely educated, talented people cannot also ignore those with whom they disapprove.
If you reply to Kderosa when he is off-topic, then you—not he—might be the problem perpetuating any discontent.”
Im not pam wiggins u crazy?
no
Former Federal Leo,
Then I’m sure you would not have a problem with me giving everyone here your information (email address and ip address). Would you?
Lottakatz,
You and I posted at the exact same time…
Gene H.
Why respond to the incessant, nonsensical speculation? If you are ‘Buddha Is Laughing’, it does not matter whatsoever to the longtime regulars here—and definitely not to me.
BIL/GH, meh.
True: I knew a guy back in the early days of blogging – so early they were called bulletin boards and were small, home grown things – that had eight nom de plume’s on this one BB. Like almost all BB’s there was a policy of one persona per subscriber. Someone found that fact out and made that known in a posting. That poster was met with smileys and ‘man, he’s half the posters on this board; you going to entertain us if he’s kicked off? there were literally only about twenty of us and that included the eight juggled by the one poster.
LOL, Of course he wasn’t kicked off and the topic never came up again and the sysop (a very active poster) simply did not address the matter. Since moderation was universally heavy I suspect the reveal was posted at all to let everyone know what most suspected and give it a stamp of approval. Case closed. I learned that lesson about two months after I got a computer and found bulletin-boards and I’m just plain slow on the uptake.
There’s only one person on ANY blog that needs to be OK with anything and that’s the person that owns it. Any and all other carping and concern is just BS. It doesn’t matter if your concern is well founded or not because the only person that has an opinion that matters, in the most fundamental, omnipotent manner, has welcomed Gene and Gene IS a good poster. Have a little respect for the Professor please and stop being presumptuous. It’s not your bandwidth.
You know, the Professor has a life that is larger than this blawg. You know that don’t you? Gene could easily be one of the multitude of associates or correspondent’s he has that he invited to his blawg.
Get over the inverted bromance with BIL. 🙂 Inverted as in masochistic, ’cause you have to want your butt handed to you with acid-tinged prose considering some of the things posted by people preoccupied with BIL/GH. He may very well be back later or not.
NOOOOOOO EUGENE IS SHORT FOR GENE WOW I MUST BE A DUMAS
Is that your post-op name?
Now look who IS playing the victim card.
DIVORCES ADULTERY BQLLECTOMIES STRANGE STORM DROWNINGS HISTERECTOMIES BALL CANCER RENAL PROBLEMS BREAST CANCER JAIL ARRESTS SHAME INFECTIONS SORES MISERIES THOSE ARE ALL THINGS TO LOOK UP UNDER PEOPLE FINDERS,,,,,MONEY SPENT TO TRY AND MAKE PEOPLE MISERABLE 3 TIMES BANKRUPCY AND MONEY OUTLETS CLOSED FOR EVIL DOING IN HOODS,,,WIRETAPPING CAMS ON 24/7 FROM FEDS HOSPITALIZATIONS,TRIALS SENTENCING TESTIMONIES,,WAITING GAMES!
I won’t speak for others, but you clowns certainly don’t scare me. And I’ll save you some speculation. Gene is short for Eugene.
Buddha/Gene has removed his avitar. He/she is running scared.