The clusterfuck of retardation continues unabated, with Birthers and Baggers sensing a vulnerability in the Negroid President they treat with such disdain. If they can just scream LOUD ENOUGH, this Kenyan Muslin will pack his bags and go back to Africaville where he belongs, leaving them in peace to figure out how best to resurrect the country they “want back.” The one in which Medicare and Medicaid look after the old and indigent, without any of that fancy schmancy “government interference” they so rail against. Man, these motherfuckers are some kinda duuuumb!  And increasingly invoking violence. 

As predicted earlier by the Taser of Wisdom, even Republicans are getting an earful from the ignorant and ill-informed, who are then getting testy and ill-mannered when the Republicans they jeer try to learn ‘em sumfin:

“U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) faced a hostile crowd of more than 350 people Thursday night at the Upstate Family Resource Center in Boiling Springs during a town hall meeting to discuss health care reform.

The loudest part of the crowd seemed to have its mind made up before Inglis even began talking,  scolding him and applauding anyone who referenced the Constitution or denounced socialism. A man against the wall held a sign that stated Congress & CNN have awakened a sleeping giant.

One man stood up, said he considered himself a mainstream conservative and said, “I look at the government, and they’re so far outside the Constitution and there’s not a week that goes by that I don’t hear talk about revolution in our country. The only one I know in Congress who abides by our Constitution is Ron Paul.”

A standing ovation followed.

Another man stood up in support of the health care reform being pushed by President Barack Obama’s administration and was ridiculed.”

Perhaps the biggest booing of the meeting came when Inglis had the nerve to suggest they’d been taken in by an undereducated drunkard hillbilly named Glenn Beck, but they were having none of it:

Thankfully, Inglis called me later tonight, on his way home from the “after party” where he met with a dozen or so local Republican precinct chairmen. Just to make sure, I asked him if he used the specific term “fear-mongering.”

“Probably,” Inglis said. “That’s what he does. That’s what Glenn Beck is all about. And Lou Dobbs. I’ve had the misfortune of listening to those shows a couple of times.”

The Beck comment was the last straw for what was left of the 350-plus people who had come to the town hall – the seventh of 12 Inglis is hosting…………

Since we were on the subject, I asked him more about Beck.

“I don’t listen often to Glenn Beck, but when I have, I’ve come away just so disappointed with the negativity… the ‘We’ve just gone to pot as a country,’ and ‘All is lost’ and ‘There is no hope.’ It’s not consistent with the America that I know. The America I know was founded by people who took tiny boats across a big ocean, and pushed west in tiny wagons, and landed on the moon. That’s the America I heard on the streets of Boiling Springs.”

He continued: “The America that Glenn Beck seems to see is a place where we all should be fearful, thinking that our best days are behind us. It sure does sell soap, but it sure does a disservice to America.”

Inglis sounds like a remarkably reasonable man, which is precisely why the extremists have targeted him for attention.  Not only might Inglis be able to “explain” shit to his constituents (boo, hiss), but he might even be reasonable enough to help reach a health care compromise with the Dems. 

But he’s entirely unreasonable when he goes after proud paranoid patriot Glenn Beck.  Doesn’t Inglis know that Glenn Beck just “loves this country” and “fears for it?” So much that he’ll cry at the prospect of it not being all that narcissist Glenn Beck demands it should be?

Well, others weren’t taking any of this shit, from Inglis or from anybody else.

Somebody decided it was time to get tough with the SEIU, which has mobilized its members to attend health care Town Halls, and left the union a nifty little voice-mail message:

“I suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and stop trying to repress people’s First Amendment rights. That, or you all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment.”

Typical Republican elitism: “when your right collides with my right, my right prevails. Because it can kill.”

This charming thought was advocated further by a Twitter tard named Scott Oskay who stated on “iamthemob:”

“If ACORN/SEIU attends these meetings for disruptive purposes, and you have a license to carry….carry.”

and

“If ACORN/SEIU attends these townhalls for disruption, stop being peaceful, and hurt them. Badly.”

Well, that’s one way to win a debate.  If you’re a Nazi thug. 

As the language escalates, the bitterness calcifies, the stifling August weather making already short fuses even shorter. First blood by one side will require exponential retribution by the other. As the debate over what must be done circles the drain, ever downward.

The problem is not that there is “nothing” to debate; there is plenty, including single payer, which isn’t even on the table.

The problem is that moderates on both sides of the aisle are willing to enter into that debate, while the GOP extremists – now a larger and more vocal part of a shrunken base – wish to ensure that there is no debate. Only capitulation to their demands, now apparently at gunpoint if they deem it necessary. It’s how the west was won, after all.

And what drives such perverse passion? A caustic combination of ignorance and paranoid hearsay.

“As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don’t agree. Today, I’m going to step over that line.

The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They’ve become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.

There are lots of valid criticisms that can be made against the health reform plans moving through Congress — I’ve made a few myself. But there is no credible way to look at what has been proposed by the president or any congressional committee and conclude that these will result in a government takeover of the health-care system. That is a flat-out lie whose only purpose is to scare the public and stop political conversation.”

Thank you Steven Pearlstein. But you sound kinda “Jewish.” And kind of “reasonable.”  So we’ll be having none of that, thank you very much.  Your pearls of wisdom may as well be tossed at swine. Thanks for playing, tho.

If you’ve been asleep the last fortnight, you might not have heard the more popular memes making the rounds.

First, Democrats want to murder your grandparents. Gonna decide not to pick up their option for continuing “life.” There’s only so much health care to go around, so it’ll be rationed, and in order to balance the budget Chairman Obama will be forced to exterminate the oldz. Too bad, so sad, farewell, been good to know ya sez RedState:

The AARP has endorsed Obamacare and is actively campaigning for Obamacare. The organization is just too chicken to use the word “endorse.”

Does the AARP’s members know about the endorsement of a healthcare plan that requires seniors to get instruction every five years on assisted suicide — a fact the AARP calls a “myth”?

Need a purgative after that? Try here.

Second, it won’t stop with the oldz. In the new Obama Nazism – so popular with Rush Limbaugh and his ilk – Sir Hopesalot will also be forced to neutralize all the tards. Here’s what one special tard had to say on the issue:

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”

Why yes, Sarah Palin, it would be downright evil. And when you can name a single person who has advocated anything like what you’ve just conjured, you feel free to send ‘em right over to us, ya betcha!

With comments of such startling stupidity coming from the GOP’s VP nominee of only nine months ago, how can the Republicans expect to dissociate themselves from the blatant falsehoods they are peddling to the unwary and ignorant? Yet they are already trying to disown authorship of their covert program:

Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI) faced a “heated” discussion about health care at a town hall meeting yesterday, with people in the crowd who were heckling, interrupting, and filibustering him.

One vocal attendee was a woman named Heather Blish, who identified herself as “just a mom from a few blocks away” and “not affiliated with any political party.” When interviewed by the local NBC affiliate, Blish insisted she was not a member of the Republican Party. “I left the party,” she said. Blish’s statements, however, are distortions. From NBC’s report:

Her LinkedIn page shows something different. She was the vice chair of the Republican Party of Kewaunee County until last year. She worked on the John Gard campaign, who ran unsuccessfully against Kagen last year. And it says she’s a part of the Republican Party for Kagen’s district, as well as the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and the Republican National Committee.

Why hide their political party affiliation? Well, would you like to break bread and work in common cause with people like these?

Patients First is a project of Americans for Prosperity–one of the key conservative interests groups helping to organize the town hall protests we’ve been covering. The speaker repeats the debunked conservative canard that Democratic health care reform will mandate physician assisted suicide. “Adolf Hitler issued six million end of life orders–he called his program the final solution. I kind of wonder what we’re going to call ours.”

And after comparing Democratic health care reform efforts to the murderous regimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot, the speaker advises his audience to “go to offices of members of Congress and put the fear of god in them.”

Fuck! Who wouldn’t want to declare themselves an “independent” rather than admit an affinity for such panic-inducing psychotic inventions?

That’s a far cry from what has been happening at recent town halls, where angry protesters — some of them, with no apparent sense of irony, shouting “This is America!” — have been drowning out, and in some cases threatening, members of Congress trying to talk about health reform.

Some commentators have tried to play down the mob aspect of these scenes, likening the campaign against health reform to the campaign against Social Security privatization back in 2005. But there’s no comparison. I’ve gone through many news reports from 2005, and while anti-privatization activists were sometimes raucous and rude, I can’t find any examples of congressmen shouted down, congressmen hanged in effigy, congressmen surrounded and followed by taunting crowds.

And I can’t find any counterpart to the death threats at least one congressman has received.

So this is something new and ugly.

Ugly? Yes, decidedly so.

New? Hardly. It’s the oldest trick in the book to mis-characterize and misrepresent your adversary’s position, if that’s the only hope you have of defeating it. It is through such chicanery that mice are repeatedly conned into voting for cats.

It is an indicator of the GOP’s desperation that it has come to so low an ebb. For no party with a positive position to proffer would stoop to such blatant underhandedness.

For those who suspect this column is cheerleading for a tragedy to occur, it must be said that nothing could be further from the truth. Cassandra didn’t relish the premonitions she had, and was destined to be disbelieved. The tragedy is not that she foresaw unpleasant futures, or that she gave them words, but that her warnings were disregarded.

(Sparky Satori will be MIA for the immediate future.  As a single payer advocate, he now fears for his life and will be hiding in plain sight on a beach somewhere.)

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