House Democrats finally remembered last night they are the majority party, elected to enact change, and passed a health care reform bill despite every obstructionist trick in the book by the GOP. They remembered nobody really cares what the extreme right fringe doesn’t want, except perhaps other teabaggers and wingnuts.
The lone Republican to vote for the bill was Joseph Cao of Louisiana and within minutes, wingnuts had vandalized his Wikipedia entry. That’s a mature sign of support for democracy, isn’t it?
But do they even understand the precepts of democracy and a federal republic? The fact they use the terms communist, socialist and fascist as synonyms tells me they missed a lot of school. And they don’t care if they’re wrong, aren’t bothered by how little they know and how much they don’t. They simply soak up whatever vitriol and untruths they hear from their heroes such as Glenn Beck, whom you’ll never see at a Mensa meeting.
The nadir of wingnuttery and teabaggery came at a Thursday rally when some displayed atrocious anti-Semitic signs comparing health care reform to the Holocaust, prompting Elie Wiesel to say, “This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting.”
Imagine what the wingnuts will do and say when they discover Rep. Cao was born in Saigon. They make Archie Bunker seem like Dag Hammarskjöld. If Watergate was a cancer on the presidency, the extreme right fringe is a cancer on the Republican Party and a fetid wound on the national discourse.
I’d say shame on them, but they are quite clearly shameless.
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Peter Dunlap-Shohl
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