From the Remains of McVeigh Grows the “Grass Roots” of the Right Wing
I have been saying that sooner or later, the Rushpublican screech machine that is so desperately trying to protect the bonuses of the health insurance CEOs is going to produce an armed fanatic hellbent on killing them dirty libruls who want to turn America into a minority-owned Communist state.
That was roughly the fear that motivated Tim McVeigh, and he made himself felt in a big way. Now, 15 years later, it appears that a McVeigh admirer is ready to step forward and carry on where Tim left off.
“Based on the news that health care events are edging into violence, an anti-health care reform protester in New Mexico named Scott Oskay is calling on his hundreds of online followers to bring firearms to town halls, and to ‘badly hurt’ SEIU and ACORN counter protesters.”
This is hardly surprising. These people, already fairly unbalanced mentally, are being deliberately encouraged by people who are only interested in keeping their power and perks.
People like that inbred waste of oxygen Michelle Malkin, who is pulling out all the stops to try to get the Oskays to show up at the healthcare reform meetings and spill a little blood.
The Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) appears the to be latest boogeymen for the anti-health care protesters. Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, for example, claimed on Friday that “SEIU thugs rolled up their sleeves and attacked a black conservative protester in St. Louis.”
As described by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, however, the facts of the incident cited by Malkin were far less clearcut. Out of the half a dozen people arrested following a town hall held by a Democratic Congresman, at least three do not appear to have been involved in violence of any kind. One supporter of a public option for health care told the paper that he and his companion had been arrested for interference after his companion tried to take pictures of a man who seemed to have been assaulted. A Post-Dispatch reporter was arrested on the same charge.
A poster at Daily Kos elaborated on this incident, writing angrily, “St. Louis cops arrested Democrats… people supporting reform and reporters… and not the GOP thugs mobbing the healthcare townhall. A video clearly shows a SEIU man down on the ground, injured, after he had been attacked. Another SEIU man comes to his aid and gives him a hand up. A woman who had been on the sidelines photographing this attack on the injured SEIU man appears to be the 51-year old woman who was arrested for ‘interference’ with police. She was peppersprayed after she was subdued.”
Malkin is, of course, trying to invent a Horst Wessel for these cretins to rally around. It’s a tactic that has served the right wing rather well over the last few years; take someone in a given situation, make a victim out of them (whether or not they met with any unpleasantness,) and then stir up the knuckle-draggers with a bunch of half-baked bullshit. Those of you who know German history know that Horst Wessel was a pimp and a street brawler, a criminal thug who eventually met his fate via the violence he was always seeking out. Hitler and Goebbels turned him into a martyr and a hero of the Reich. If the right wing had any people in it with a fifth of the intelligence of Goebbels (and acknowledging his intelligence is NOT the same thing as praising him, for those who may try to make some kind of a stupid point,) they might actually be able to create themselves a Horst Wessel. Sadly (for them at least,) all they have for a brain trust are people like Malkin, Limbaugh, and Beck.
Amazingly enough, these dispensers of spoken vomit have consistently been able to find people even more stupid than they are for their “teabagger” and now “healthcare hysteria” mobs. The Rushpublican Party apparatus tries to maintain plausible deniability via the use of these thug mobs, but sometimes Malkin or Rush can’t turn out the required numbers. That’s when the Rushpublicans roll up their pant legs and step into the sewers themselves.
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.
Speaking of “just a mom”…. the discredited “hockey mom” weighed in with yet another of her complety wack job diatribes on healthcare. This kind of fearmongering is way past disgusting and all the way to inexcusable. She knows better than this, and she sure as hell doesn’t know much.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama’s health plan “downright evil” on Friday in her first online comments since leaving office.
She said in a Facebook posting that he would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans.
“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,” the former Republican vice-presidential candidate wrote.
“Such a system is downright evil,” Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.
Obama, a Democrat, campaigned on a promise of offering affordable health care to all Americans. The United States is the only developed nation that does not have a comprehensive national health care plan for all its citizens.
I am not a misogynist, but I have to say it-she’s a deceitful, fearmongering cunt. She whores her kids out as props to make non-existent political points, and then acts shocked when someone else has something to say about her family. To use her own child as a way of spreading this kind of hysterical bullshit is past anything a civilized society should tolerate. It is high time the child welfare authorities took a hard look at what kind of a mother this piece of shit is.
But, you know, they won’t. Not even after she gets someone killed with her bullshit.
Tags: healthcare, lies, malkin, palin, rushpublicans, scott oskay
August 8th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Between the Birthers loons and anti-national healthcare whackos, I have reached the point where I must conclude there’s no hope for this experiment called the United States of America.
Maybe what needs to happen is a return of the Mason-Dixon line?
Call them, The United States of North America (USNA) and the United States of Jesustan (USJ), with all the kooks moving to states below the Mason-Dixon line, leaving the rest of the country to us? We can have two, distinct national capitals, two brand new Constitutions, where gay marriage is legal “up north” and prayer is required four times a day by law “down yonder.”
August 8th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Christopher, I think that’s what is coming, and I think the Rushpublican “leadership” also believes this.
August 8th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people. And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a lynch mob advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.
August 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I give it another week, maybe 2, someone is going to get killed at one of these townhall meetings. Here’s the big problem with even having these townhall meetings – the cops are on the side of the wackos who are protesting. Fact is, most police departments tend to be majority white, and republican. This is why we see the union folk taking the heat at these things now.
If the word it going to get out, I say cut it all off at the knees. Public service TV announcements. “webinars” . Radio annoucements. Public forums will no longer be safe enough for anyone to go to anymore, so the word has to get out in alternative fashion. Volunteers visiting nursing homes (like a friend of mine does) to educate the older people who have been told that they will be targeted for euthanasia. Things like that.
August 8th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I would obviously prefer that PresBO rescind and repudiate the USAPATRIOT Act and other ‘war’ measures in the most unambiguous way possible. But if he doesn’t, and since he hasn’t, he should at least be using them against these people, who are clearly operating as domestic terrorists. And they are being egged on by the reight-tards in the Lamestream Media, no doubt about it.
I wouldn’t complain if Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin were waterboarded side-by-side just to see which one cried first. I’d bet it would be Beck.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Packing sidearms to healthcare meetings? Looks like Fascism is getting up out of their rocking chairs.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Christopher,
That’s JesusIStan. Just sayin.’
August 10th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Maybe it would be helpful if Palin were to be given an hour of national TV time to just say her piece to the American people. I’m thinking that after 20 or 30 minutes of spouting GOP talking points she would start ad libbing. Start lapsing into wingnut lunacy. And that would be the end of her political potential and celebrity, much like Eugene McCarthy after he got taken down a peg.
As for Malkin, a picture is worth 1,000 words.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Palin would have destroyed herself already, if her core support wasn’t a sea of inbred Malkin-types.