It’s Well-Past Time We Start Questioning Republican Patriotism
May 12, 2014
On Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, the day after President Obama’s reelection, I already knew what to expect for the next four years. I remembered quite well how Republicans flat-out lost their friggin’ minds after President Clinton was reelected to a second term and was already reminding people what happened the last time Republicans controlled Congress after a Democrat was reelected president. The GOP was going to spend the next four years doing nothing but looking for (read: “inventing”) scandals for which they could impeach President Obama, or at the very least, marring his place in history as a successful president.
By the time of President Clinton’s reelection, Republicans had spent the prior four years investigating/inventing scandals (everything from a land deal that took place before he became president where he actually LOST money, to the their cat’s Christmas Card List) trying to make the first Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson out to be a bigger crook than Richard Nixon (in 2005, after 30 years in office, Republican Congressman Henry Hyde openly admitted that the impeachment of President Clinton… the first Democratic president since LBJ, was possibly “payback for the [threatened] impeachment [and ultimate resignation] of [President] Nixon”) all in hopes of denying him a second term. But when they were blindsided by Clinton’s reelection, they knew the only way left to stop him from serving out his full second term was to “impeach” him. And the
That’s just how petty and partisan these Cretins are. Before President Clinton, only ONE president had EVER been impeached in all of U.S. history, Andrew Johnson, after he succeeded President Lincoln. That’s just how big a deal “impeachment” is… or was now that it looks like the GOP is going to attempt to impeach every Democratic president that dare win a second term.
The Bush Administration was an abject disaster. From not convening to even discuss terrorism until the week before 9/11 despite receiving some VERY specific warnings with titles like “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”, almost THREE THOUSAND Americans were murdered
If Democrats had tried to impeach Bush over any one of those embassy attacks… let alone 9/11… what do you think the response on the Right would have been?
The GOP has shown nothing but contempt for Democracy for the last five years. From their blatant war on voting rights by disenfranchising millions of legitimate voters among
Republicans were quick to make a hero of free-loading Arizona cattle rancher Cliven Bundy who openly declared that he “didn’t recognize the existence [sic: legitimacy] of the United States government” and defended his secessionist movement when his militia friends took up sniper positions on a nearby bridge and aimed their weapons at the heads of Federal law enforcement officers.
House Majority Leader Boehner actually said about the Obama Administration last week: “They’ve not told them the truth about Benghazi, they have not told the truth about the IRS, they’ve not told the truth about Fast and Furious.” There have been no less than TWO extensive investigations of “Benghazi” already… one of them by Republicans themselves… that found NO EVIDENCE of any “stand down order” or refusal to send aid to the Embassy during the attack. And NOW their latest Talking Point appears to be, “Why were we even IN Benghazi in the first place?” Well, the consulate was there before the overthrow of Kadaffi, and needed even more following his death as the country was left rudderless. Can you just imagine the howls of protests on the Right if President Obama had abandoned Libya following the overthrow of Kadaffi, leaving it ripe for Iran or AQAP to seize control? And now they dare ask why we were “still there”?
There is the mind-numbingly stupid “IRS scandal” where Republicans actually believe the Obama White House was micro-managing the Cincinnati, Ohio IRS, telling them to single out “Conservative Groups” applying for
Then there’s “Fast & Furious”, the BATF code-name for the investigation of gun smuggling across the U.S. border into Mexico. The insane Conservative “scandal” here appears to be (pardon me if I get this wrong because I don’t speak Teanut) that the Obama Administration was “giving guns to Mexican terrorists” in some bizarre plot to stir up public outrage over gun violence and demand more laws restricting gun ownership… at least that’s what I think the imaginary scandal is because they rarely (if ever) actually spell out exactly what they believe the goal of Obama Administration supposedly was by “arming Mexican drug runners.”
Problem is, U.S. law restricting gun purchases contains a massive loophole left in place by pro-gun rights Republicans and defended vigorously by the NRA… preventing U.S. law enforcement from preventing “strawman” purchases of massive quantities of guns, who then go and sell then off to criminals that could never pass a background check. And that is why you rarely hear
If you haven’t figured it out yet, the reoccurring theme here is that Republicans believe Democrats are every bit as petty and vindictive as they are. And they KNOW Democrats are doing all this because THAT’S WHAT THEY’D DO if they were in our position. So we MUST be doing everything they imagine us to be doing!
So I ask you, “what has the GOP done in the last 5 years other than obstruct everything this President has tried to do and invent scandals where none exist? They have NO record of accomplishment. They have done NOTHING to help President Obama create jobs, and when the latest jobs report shows surprising job growth, they are left with nothing but to look for the negative (Bush had staggeringly anemic “job growth” for most of his presidency, yet they cheered “52 months of consecutive job growth” until that whole “economic collapse” put the Global economy in a tailspin. Did you ever hear them ONCE talk about the “hidden bad news” behind those job numbers? Me neither.)
I’m sorry, but they questioned my patriotism for NINE years (from my asking questions about 9/11 to calling me a Commie for supporting ObamaCare). They impeached one president for purely partisan gain and are now talking about doing it again. Those same bastards who are openly hostile towards Democracy, our president, and the very “legitimacy” of the United States government, are still being treated like patriots? Like hell they are. These people are not “patriots”. They HATE America, and I say it’s well past time we start questioning THEIR patriotism the way they gleefully questioned ours.
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May 12, 2014
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I second that motion. This is not “patriotic” in any sense of the word:
[VIDEO] Cliven Bundy’s Tea Party ‘Constitution’:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/11/the-dumbest-history-videos-youll-ever-see-courtesy-of-crazy-cliven-bundy-videos/
April 2014: “EXPOSED: The Source Of Cliven Bundy’s Crackpot Constitutionalism”
As Promoted by Glenn Beck on Fox “News”:
“After searching for the distinctive cover of the document in Bundy’s pocket, the publisher turned out to be the innocuously named National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS). However, the NCCS is not the commendable educational organization it purports to be. It began life as the Freemen Institute, a vehicle for the far-right, Mormon, anti-commie, history revisionist, W. Cleon Skousen. Skousen taught that the Constitution was inspired by a God who intended America to be a Christian nation. He also professed the canon of white supremicism that Anglo-Saxons are descended from a lost tribe of Israel. The Southern Poverty Law Center chronicled the NCCS curriculum based on Skousen’s philosophy saying that he…
“…demonized the federal regulatory agencies, arguing for the abolition of everything from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to the Environmental Protection Agency. He wanted to repeal the minimum wage, smash unions, nullify anti-discrimination laws, sell off public lands and national parks, end the direct election of senators, kill the income tax and the estate tax, knock down state-level walls separating church and state, and, of course, raze the Federal Reserve System.”
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=12655
Rachel Maddow breaks down Cliven Bundy’s Christian Identity white supremacist movement:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/radical-racist-context-missed-in-rancher-hype-236481603620
April 25, 2014: [Koch] “The Money Behind Fox’s Promotion Of Cliven Bundy’s Battle With The Feds”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/25/the-money-behind-foxs-promotion-of-cliven-bundy/199034
“Beck’s [Tea Party, ‘Christian’] ‘historian’ [David Barton] delivered talks to racist, anti-Semitic Christian Identity groups”
[quote] ADL: “Barton has delivered his revisionist presentation in the meeting halls of the racist and anti-Semitic extreme right.”
In the 1994 book, The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance & Pluralism in America, the Anti-Defamation League wrote that Barton ‘purveys a slick, cut-and-paste revisionist history of the United States and the Constitution.’ ADL further stated that Barton spoke at events hosted by the Christian Identity movement, which “asserts that Jews are ‘the synagogue of Satan’; that Blacks and other people of color are subhuman; and that northern European whites and their American descendants are the ‘chosen people’ of scriptural prophesy.” [end quote] :
http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/10/07/becks-historian-delivered-talks-to-racist-anti/171625
Barton’s Bunk: Religious Right ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America: Barton’s Bible = Tea Party Platform”
http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/barton-s-bunk-religious-right-historian-hits-the-big-time-tea-party-america
Libertarian Party Platform circa 1980, the year David Koch ran for president:
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
David Barton tapped by Michele Bachman to “’teach’ constitution class to 2011 incoming Tea Party freshman lawmakers (Congress):
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-intends-have-david-barton-teach-classes-constitution-and-christian-history-members-
“Meet the Right-Wing Historian [non-historian David Barton] Who Helped Draft the GOP Platform”
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/david-barton-gop-platform-tampa
The brothers Koch want public lands privatized, which is what this is really about:
http://irehr.org/issue-areas/tea-party-nationalism/tea-party-news-and-analysis/item/553-bundy-standoff
“Ron Paul Calls For Federal Public Lands To Be ‘Sold Off To Private Owners”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/10/21/349536/ron-paul-public-lands/
It’s why Rand Paul backed Cliven Bundy’s idiocy: http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-bundy-siege-is-why-americans-are-getting-angry-with-federal-government/
“State Efforts To ‘Reclaim’ Our Public Lands Traced To Koch-Fueled ALEC”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/11/1698221/state-efforts-to-reclaim-our-public-lands-traced-to-alec/
Pulling the same crap in Utah: “’Bundy Affair’ Rides Again in Utah Canyon Protest”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/30-protesters-ride-atvs-off-limits-ut-canyon-23669241
“Tea Party ideology is not new but taps into decades of Religious Right instruction on Biblical Capitalism.'”
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/2/1/132159/0192
“Bibliography for PA Progressive Summit 2012 Presentation on ‘Biblical Economics'”
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/2/15/111659/576
Andy Borowitz of The New Yorker
with tongue in cheek writes: “Millions of unemployed Americans who have fruitlessly been looking for work for months are determined that Congress get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi…” To most Republicans it seems that 13 hearings (including in the Senate), 50 briefings and more than 25,000 pages of documents were devoted to what happened that night in Benghazi. One right-wing lie (of many) is that the President didn’t react on that night even though photos exist of his meeting with cabinet members and staff. The next day Obama made reference to “terrorists” to blame during his Rose Garden speech (that tripped up Romney in the debates). Immediately after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center/Pentagon, DEMOCRATS put arms around Republicans, a PATRIOTIC act to come together in a time of adversity. In Beirut in 1983, when terrorists killed 241 American service men (plus 58 French soldiers, 6 civilians) with explosives. President Reagan did essentially nothing in response. What would the current right-wing radicals have done if instead of 4 Americans, 241 Americans had been killed in Benghazi with Obama’s response being as tepid as Reagan’s was to Beirut? Also, Democrats and Tip O’Neil didn’t attack President Reagan but laid partisanship aside and gave their support to the President and a grieving nation. Now we have Darrel Issa, Lindsey Graham, and most of the right wing politicians hating on this particular president, not to mention the conservative media led by Faux News. Worse now is the GOP raising campaign money on the back of this tragedy. From a conservative blog (yes I read both sides when it comes to politics): http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-johnson/2014/05/07/jane-mayer-tip-oneill-handled-beirut-attack-appropriately-while-issa-to
I think part of the intent with this constant invention of scandals is to create a fog of suspicion around Obama and his admin, such that, in the same way as every overview of teh Clinton Whitehouse is obliged to describe it as “scandal plagued” (David Brock, who “broke” most of those scandals is on record that most of them were either unsubstantiated rumour or baseless allegation), every overview of the Obama presidency will be obligated to describe him likewise.
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