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No one said freedom was pretty
By Dana Milbank Friday, November 6, 2009 The call to arms went out last week. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who made her name suggesting that Barack Obama and other Democrats have "anti-American" views, appeared on Fox News on Friday night and urged Americans to come to Washington to ...
Tea Partiers Came With 2010 Warnings
Tea Partiers Came With 2010 Warnings
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — The scene today at the Capitol Hill Tea Party probably worried incumbents of both parties. TPMDC was... there, following every "Kill the bill" refrain and impromptu "USA! USA!" chant from the many thousands gathered on the West Front Lawn of the ... (more) Tea Partiers Came With 2010 Warnings
Bachmann leads rally opposing health plan
startribune.com — Thousands of protesters gathered at the U.S. Capitol and chanted "Kill the bill."... (more) Bachmann leads rally opposing health plan
Bachmann / Teabagger Rally Compares Health Care Reform to Holocaust
yourspinzone.ning.com — Over the past couple of years, my outrage meter has spiked up to 10 on many occasions.... Today, though, it broke. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Mn) sponsored a teabagger rally in Washington today. Almost the entire GOP house and senate leadership ... (more) Bachmann / Teabagger Rally Compares Health Care Reform ...
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Scenes from the Teabaggers: Hypocrisy, Hatred, Anti-semitism and Buffoonery
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Okay, I don't often link to Dana Milbank, but today, he has some of the color from the teabagger rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. I found this particularly interesting: ...

Holocaust and Health Care - Cut it Out or Else!
TPMCafe — ... This morning The Washington Post's Dana Milbank reported that these signs and other comparably disgusting ones could not possibly have been missed by Boehner and other GOP members of Congress because they were right in front of the GOP speakers. Moreover, Milbank highlighted the comments of other GOP-sponsored speakers speaking about Reverend Wright brainwashing President Barack Obama to "damn America" and fuming about "death panels." ...

I Get Letters
Shakesville — ... Umm...actually a majority of Americans did. See, that's how Obama was elected President. I can see by that staggering number of people who showed up to your party (what was it? about 4,000?) how the majority are really worked up about things. I also found it interesting how willing some of those attendees were willing to accept true government health care from the Capitol's physician office. Why couldn't they stick to their principles and demand to only be cared for by private practitioners? Hypocrites!! ...

Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred
NJDC Blog — ... more plausible. Keyak concludes: Regardless of partisan affiliation, this sort of language and imagery is unacceptable - it is outside the mainstream of political discourse. This is not an issue where one can seriously “respectfully disagree.” It’s past time for the GOP to stop downplaying their own anti-Obama activists who insist on using this sort of hateful rhetoric when attacking the President. Simply put, the use of swastikas, photos of dead Holocaust victims, and anti-Semitic epithets should have no place in any ...

Aaron Keyak: Irrational Exuberance in Anti-Obama Hatred
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... That's right ADL: don't you know your place? Regardless of partisan affiliation, this sort of language and imagery is unacceptable - it is outside the mainstream of political discourse. This is not an issue where one can seriously "respectfully disagree." It's past time for the GOP to stop downplaying their own anti-Obama activists who insist on using this sort of hateful rhetoric when attacking the President. Simply put, the use of swastikas, photos of dead Holocaust victims, and anti-Semitic epithets should have no place in any event ...

Top Five Inaccuracies of RJC’s 11/10 Blog Post
NJDC Blog — ... at a press conference called and organized by Republicans at the United States Capitol last week, and deeply disappointed at the failure of the Republican leadership to speak out against such comparisons. Subsequently, RJC Tweeted that it “respectfully disagreed”   Inaccuracy #4: NJDC used “extremist left-wing sites” to prove the existence of Holocaust rhetoric Facts: NJDC has often used The Washington Post, The Hill and Politico for proof. ...

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