We have heard all their, the radical right, BS…….Pres is a Kenyan, Death Panels, Obama is a socialist, Obama is a nazi, yada yada….and most thinking Americans have written them off as right wingnuts and someone who should be ignored.
But people, not all the BS comes from the right wingnuts…there are some respected, and I use the word very loosely, on the Right that are ass deep in the BS being spread. No I am not talking about dipsticks like Rush or Coulter or Beck; I am sure there is someone somewhere that respects these BS factories, but rather I am talking about Senators and House members.
Just yesterday, Iowa’s Senator Grassley said to a group of 300:
“You have every right to fear. You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life, you should have done that 20 years before. Should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma.”
He, Grassley, knows very well that there is no such provision in the bill as it is now. Let me remind him that his colleague in the Senate, Isakson a fellow Repub from the state of Georgia who co-sponsored 2007’s Medicare end-of-life Planning Act. Is Grassley accusing his fellow GOP member of wanting to “pull the plug on Grandma”? BTW, Isakson said in a recent interview:
How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You’re putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don’t know how that got so mixed up. […]
It empowers you to be able to make decisions at a difficult time rather than having the government making them for you.
Grassley is not alone in the crazy world of Repub BS. It seems that Repub. Congressman from Georgia said recently to a group of his people:
He also spoke of a “socialistic elite” – Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – who might use a pandemic disease or natural disaster as an excuse to declare martial law.
“They’re trying to develop an environment where they can take over,” he said. “We’ve seen that historically.”
You see the radical right is not the problem. They are a fringe group that will be marginalized, but when the members of the Senate and the House start repeating the BS then the GOP has a major problem.
The trouble (I think) is that in both our countriest the wignuts on both the right and the left are just that – wingnuts. Unfortunately, a lot of them are in politics and at least some of them get elected.
If a guy becomes a Senator, it makes him good at appealing to the mass of the people during an election – it DOESN’T raise his IQ or make him any more or less of a wingnut than he was before the election!
Morning….and you are so right…but my thought is that the GOP is in real trouble as a party, even the elected officials are venturing into the wingnut camp.
Well, they do have no ideas of their own; just FUD.
So damn true…look at their plan to reform health care….oh my bad…they have no plan and when they are in a majority their only plan was for people to open a savings account.