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
I still think when you hold people’s lives and jobs hostage, you are a domestic terrorist.
I’m glad I waited … this was a most interesting exchange
I bid you good evening.
I am Gene Howington.
Buddha Is Laughing is Buddha Is Laughing.
Some people just simply don’t listen when they are warned either. Your comments are now flagged for moderation as well. Any future comments by you or kderosa require editor approval.
@Gene
You know full well that kderosa posted that comment in order to further demonstrate that he knows who you are. Unlike others who have in the past posted as someone they were not, his post was not submitted so as to falsely stir the pot. His intent was to inform others of your game.
mespo,
I think that’s a fine plan.
No, Byron Is Laughing.
He’s been put in the moderation queue to stop his disruptions. If you are Byron as in the Byron I recently banned for posting as Buddha Is Laughing, since you’ve changed IP’s and not violated any further policy, you won’t get banned. However, if you persist in your disruptive behavior, I have no issue adding you to moderation too.
kderosa posted a comment at the outingbuddha site. I have contacted him. He has informed me that Buddha/Gene has now banned him.
Gene:
I’m done with the sandox disputes. What say we end this thread for the evening and let our little charges or charge stew in their/his own out-landish jucies for a while?
Sorry.
Bdaman.
I warned you I’m a sloppy typist. 😉
kderosa:
If you’re talking about this comment then you’ve misled me and accused Mike Spindell falsely. All Mike did was list some Google results. Whether your personal information is there or not was unknown to everyone except you. Since a Google search doesn’t return e-mail addresses or IP addresses there was no way for Mike to associate you with any of those search results.
@Former Federal LEO
I would appreciate your assistance. Gene has already altered comments left by kderosa. I’m sure that kderosa will verify that to be true.
@Nal
Thank you for being honest about the capabilities of the guest bloggers.
If Professor Turley was to create Editor accounts for all of the guest bloggers, they would only have the ability to post articles. They could edit their own articles, but not the articles of others. They would have no access to the information left by those commenting.
I’m reasonably sure the damage has already been done. Buddha/Gene ran his own wordpress blog (cppamerica). I have no doubt that he knows how to download the database. He could use that database at any time he wants to harass others. What? Buddha harass others?
kderosa post a comment at the outingbuddha site. I have contacted him. He has informed me that Buddha/Gene has now banned him.
bdaman,
This is the 21st Century. I have a tabbed browser.
Since Byron or kderosa or whatever writes as much as the GBer’s do combined., I think he should supply his real name and information.
Being that your e-mail and IP don’t match the poster known as Buddha Is Laughing, you are now.
You were able to establish this in three minutes.
Damn boy you good.
Must have a master sheet near by.
Not that I’m aware of mespo.
Up to his old tricks. I see another suspension coming. Do we have a recidivist policy?
Being that your e-mail and IP don’t match the poster known as Buddha Is Laughing, you are now.
BIL:
I hope not. Does kd sound like Byron to you? I think it laughable btw that since we know neither kd nor Byron’s real name that either assumption would be a breach of anonymity?