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Democrat Compares Health-Care Opponents to Nazis

By Robert Stacy McCain on 12.20.09 @ 5:42PM

This afternoon, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) gave a speech in which he quoted Richard Hofstadter's 1964 essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and accused ObamaCare opponents of inciting "vindictive passions":

"Far from appealing to the better angels of our nature, too many colleagues are embarked on a desperate no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, obstruction and fear. History cautions us of the excesses to which these malignant, vindictive passions can ultimately lead. Tumbrils have rolled through taunting crowds, broken glass has sparkled in darkened streets. Strange fruit has hung from Southern trees. Even this great institution of government that we share has cowered before a tail-gunner waving secret lists." (Emphasis added.)

A full text of Sen. Whitehouse's remarks is not yet available, but at this moment, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) is rebutting the Democrat's accusations. And, by the way, that Senate tail-gunner was right about one thing: There were indeed Soviet agents in the State Department.

UPDATE: More from the Whitehouse speech, referring to Hofstadter's "paranoid style" thesis:

"Vindictive passions often arise, [Hofstadter] points out, when an aggrieved minority believes that America has been taken away from them their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. Does that sound familiar . . . in this health debate? . . . [Hofstadter] wrote of the dangers of an aggrieved right-wing minority with the power to create what he called a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible."

It's interesting -- but probably no accident -- that the first Republican to respond to Whitehouse's provocative remarks was Kyl of Arizona. In 1964, Hofstadter's essay was taken as an analysis of the conservative supporters of another Arizona Republican, Barry Goldwater.

By the way, these quotes are taken from an audio rush transcript of Sen. Whitehouse's speech, the official text of which has not yet been published.

UPDATE II: More from the transcript of the Whitehouse speech:

"[Republicans have engaged in] a campaign of falsehood about death panels and cuts to Medicare benefits and benefits for illegal aliens and bureaucrats to be parachuted in between you and your doctor. Our colleagues terrify the public with this parade of imagined horrors. They whip up concerns and anxiety about socialized medicine and careening deficits and then they tell use the public is concerned about the bill."

UPDATE III: Accusing the bill’s opponents of inflaming “unprecedented passions,” Whitehouse blamed the GOP for the extension of the health-care debate into the Christmas holiday:

“We see it in bad behavior. We see it in the long hours of reading by the clerks our Republican colleagues have forced. We see it in Christmases and holidays ruined by the Republicans for our loyal and professional Senate employees. It’s fine for me. It’s fine for the president. We signed up for the his job, but why ruin it for all the employees condemned by the Republicans to be here?”

UPDATE IV: If you voted Republican, here is how Sen. Whitehouse describes you:

“Why all this discord and discourtesy, all this unprecedented destructive action? All to break the momentum of our young president. They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The ‘birthers,’ the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militias and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Obama should exist.”

OK, so much for all those Aryan militia fanatics who vote Republican, what does Sen. Whitehouse think of the Senators those voters elected?

“Our colleagues are behaving in this way – unprecedented, malignant and vindictive – because they are desperate to avoid that day of judgment, frantic and desperate now and willing to strange and unprecedented things, willing to do anything, even throw our troops at war in the way of that day of reckoning. If they can cause this bill to fail, the truth will never stand up as a living reproach to the lies that have been told. . . . But when the bill passes and this program actually comes to life . . . there will come a day of judgment, and our Republican friends know that. That, Mr. President, is why they are terrified.”

There you have it, then: Nazis and militia kooks elect lying Republican senators who ruin Christmas and who oppose the bill only because they want to "break" the president and are terrified that if the bill passes, it will expose how they've engaged in fear-mongering propaganda.

Amazing that in his 1,700 word speech, Sen. Whitehouse didn't find time to accuse his opponents of being "divisive" and "polarizing."

UPDATE V: Excerpts of Sen. Jon Kyle's response.

around the track| 12.20.09 @ 5:47PM

I'm so proud. Whitehouse is my Senator! Eat your hearts out those of you in Red states! By the way, this piece of work once said he was running for the Senate because he was born and bred to be one.

victor| 12.20.09 @ 9:06PM

I'll see your "piece of work"
and raise you one "senile old fool" (Lousy Lautenburg) and one shifty shyster (Mendacious Menendez).
Not too many states with TWO such pieces, eh?

Dean| 12.21.09 @ 7:51AM

Nice try Track and Victor. But we in Illinois win hands down. Nothing can top Dick "I do what Nancy Pelosi tells Dungy Harry Reid to do" Durbin and Roland "I bought my seat" Burris as pieces of work.

Roark| 12.21.09 @ 10:28AM

You two are both confused. Al Franken & Amy Klobuchar. Enough said.

Elle| 12.21.09 @ 10:53AM

I think I have everybody beat.

What about John Kerry and the robot they stuck in the empty seat because Teddy K's ghost demanded it and because the Democratic majority in the state can change the laws at their whim. We win... I mean, LOSE.

SFC MAC| 12.21.09 @ 2:36PM

around the track:
I'm in Northeast Ohio; a decades-long democratic stronghold. We have the illustrious moonbat Dennis Kucicnich.

SFC MAC| 12.21.09 @ 3:10PM

typo: Kucinich

tkm| 12.21.09 @ 3:16PM

Back to Illinois: "Turban" Durban and "Al Queda" Quinn

Crotalus| 12.21.09 @ 10:40PM

There'll be a day of reckoning, alright! Yours!

marianne7| 12.22.09 @ 5:25PM

*sigh* Our junk senator is crappy Casey. Pro-lmao-life.

deeplyamerican| 12.20.09 @ 6:14PM

Over the course of the Fall campaign and since his inauguration, our President has been subjected to all manner of vulgar, belligerent, hateful speech from the Conservative Hate Machine. Here are some documented examples uttered by Republican officials and supporters .... that have appeared both in the media and on numerous right-wing journalistic forums and at rallies.

He's a “Muslim” .. he's an “Islamic Fascist” .. he's, he's an “Arab” .. he's the “Messiah” .. he's the “Savior” .. he's “Barack the magic negro” .. he's a “member of Hamas” ... he “hates America” .. he's “Godless” .. he's “that one” .. he's a “Socialist” .. he's a “Racist” .. he's the “Anti-Christ” .. he's a “Communist” .. he's “Evil” .. he's a “Nazi” .. he's a “Gangsta Rapper” .. he's a “Traitor” .. he wants to “euthanize the elderly” .. he's a “fascist dictator” .. he's a “Jihadist” .. he's “gonna take away our guns” .. “Kill him, Kill him” .. “Off with his head” .. he's an “Illegal Alien” .. he “forged his birth certificate” .. he's “Adolf Hitler” .. he's a “Terrorist”.. he “should be buried with Kennedy”.

Does this look like the kind of speech one would expect from true American patriots .. or does this sound more like mob speech? Wouldn't a true American say “he's our “President”? The late Paul Weyrich would be proud of this ad hominem belligerence. Abraham Lincoln would be deeply ashamed.

But the current mainstream GOP doesn't stop with offensive hate speech. Indeed, here's a more recent demonstration of morality and American spirit coming from these protectors of American values .. on display at the Capital during the GOP's Thursday, November 5 mob rally against health insurance reform led by the House Republicans. Prominently displayed at our Nation's Capital in front of the speaker podium was a large banner containing a terrible Holocaust image showing a pile of dead, naked, emaciated bodies that reads National Socialist Health Care, Dachau Germany, 1945.

Dachau Germany, 1945? Government take-over?

What a sad, twisted, failure-ridden party the GOP has become.

Interested Conservative| 12.20.09 @ 6:31PM

That's quite a list and quite a conclusion, each of which seems riddled with inconsistency.

I suspect you have a source for the quotes, but to pick a few - I recall the "magic negro" originated with an Los Angeles democratic source - and much publicized by a certain talk show host, as is his practice in pointing out left wing hysteria.

Also - the "forged his birth certificate" is news to me. I don't believe it's an issue at all, but I don't know that forgery has been alleged?

Finally - you've invoked Godwin's Law. Not too usefully.

Interested Conservative| 12.20.09 @ 6:34PM

PS - FWIW, you forgot "born a British subject", which, interestingly, happens to be true. Look it up.

victor| 12.20.09 @ 9:24PM

Ignore him, he's another one of them pesky liberterrier trolls.
He bends facts and figgers to fit his perverted philosophy.

MarxistScumInControl| 12.20.09 @ 10:30PM

YOUR president is MARXIST-SCUM. The color of his skin is IMMATERIAL & IRRELEVANT.
TEDDY, another of YOUR heroes, WAS SCUM. The color of his skin WAS immaterial & irrelevant as well.
You will THINK "failure-ridden" in 2010 when:
** WE vote in 4 different counties under assumed names as did YOUR ACORN scum
** WE tear-down & destroy YOUR candidate's campaign signs & banners as did YOUR ACORN scum
** WE intimidate voters at polling places as did YOUR NEW BLACK PANTHER SCUM
** WE intimidate YOUR candidate's supporters by informing them that their PRO-SCUM bumper stickers (et cetera ) could COST THEM THEIR JOB since their employer is the small biz owner who will be the MOST HURT by your scum-candidates' agendas.

WE'VE NEVER STOOPED TO THESE DEPTHS BEFORE, but like any human ( or animal ) backed into a corner, we HAVE THE capacity to do so... and now the NECESSITY, apparently...

TXMarko| 12.20.09 @ 10:31PM

"Prominently displayed at our Nation's Capital in front of the speaker podium was a large banner containing a terrible Holocaust image showing a pile of dead, naked, emaciated bodies that reads National Socialist Health Care, Dachau Germany, 1945. "

You have a link to a picture of this banner, right?
Surely someone had to capture this horrible banner "prominently displayed" right in front of the podium at this "mob rally". No? But didn't you say your comments were "documented"?

Didn't think so.

DeeplyAmerican - (and I WILL capitalize American in your nick even though YOU don't)...

Stop cherry picking stupid comments out of blogs and insisting elsewhere they are mainstream conservative thought.

If you are on a personal mission to stop name calling/death mongering/racist stupidity on blogs, try and start with your own kind.

deeplyamerican| 12.20.09 @ 11:26PM

TKMarko wrote:

"You have a link to a picture of this banner, right?
Surely someone had to capture this horrible banner "prominently displayed" right in front of the podium at this "mob rally". No? But didn't you say your comments were "documented"?
Didn't think so"

Here you go .. enjoy:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/.....aust-sign/
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911050036

SoCon| 12.20.09 @ 11:59PM

Well, you liberal pieces of human excrement still have us beat: We've never penned a documentary and a play about the assassination of Obozo.

Only liberal pukes like you would author Bush assassination works such as "Death of a President" by Gabriel Range and "President and Man" by New York's Naked Angels Theater Co.

Save us your manufactured outrage; you fascists invented "vulgar, belligerent, hateful speech"---it defines you.

TXMarko| 12.21.09 @ 9:50AM

Your first link failed, The 2nd didn't.

I personally would not condone images of nazi death camps as a political statement, but as marxist scum in control notes above, if your opponent wins using illegal/immoral tactics, then Conservatives really dont have an option, do they?

What really astounds me is the leftist ability to generate fake outrage whenever conservatives use their own playbook against them.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009.....mparisons/

True American| 12.21.09 @ 12:34PM

And now you can add"Marxist Scum" to your list as per the post from:
MarxistScumInControl| 12.20.09 @ 10:30PM

They waste little time in proving your point!..

SFC MAC| 12.21.09 @ 3:05PM

"deeplyamerican"?
ROFLMAO!
Oh yeah, your Democratic party is so patriotic.
We spent 8 years during GW's tenure, listening to vile, rancid, visceral crap every single day from HuffPo, DailyKos, and the MSM.
Years of gutter journalism, anti-American hatespeech, and a concerted effort on the part of the malevolent Left to eviscerate this country, has proven that we need to fight tooth and nail to take our country back.
First some facts about your Obamessiah:
Obama launched his career from the home of two domestic terrorists—William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn—and collaborates with radical groups like ACORN under the guise of “community organizing”.
He sat in a church for over 20 years listening to the sermons of a rabid moonbat (Jeremiah Wright) who “god-damned” America and railed against “whitey” and Jews.
Some of the world’s worst dictators and Islamic goons are head over heels for him. He accumulated Frank Marshall Davis, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Amahdinejad, Louis Farrakhan, Daniel Ortega, the Arab-American Action network, CAIR, and Hamas among his associates, admirers, supporters, and mentors. He’s a human bug light for despots, terrorists, and hate spewers. No wonder the Islamic extremists salivated for a ‘change’ they can believe in. His kowtowing to some of the worst despots on the planet makes Jimmy Carter pale in comparison.
His economic policies are a distaster. We have 15% nation-wide unemployment while Mr. Hopey Changytude has implemented a socialist takeover of private industry and corporations, and will have given us (a projected) 23.7 trillion dollar deficit before he’s through ruining our economy.
He and his myrmidons have done everything they can to squelch the First Amendment. Obama is trampling all over the Constitution with the aid and support of the main stream media. He has an "enemies list", which includes Iraq War veterans like me, in the form of a DHS “threat assessment”. He’s called for his supporters to send “fishy misinformation” about his ObamaCare bill to a White House website. Dissent and debate from protesters has been met with threats and intimidation. He has tried, but failed to silence American patriots fed up with his socialist tyranny. (SEIU thugs, ACORN, harrassment of Joe (the plumber) Wurzenbacher). Why do you think millions of people across the country have participated in Tea Party rallies?
Obama is a failure of epic proportions. He’s a disgrace and an embarassment.
Let’s recap: He’s taking our country to hell in a socialist handbasket. He’s destroying our national security and economy. He’s trampling the U.S. Constitution. Belligerant countries like Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, continue to build up their nuke capabilities and laugh their asses off at Obama’s stupidity.
How’s that “change” really coming along for you?
As for ObamaCare, you need to be beaten with a large cluebat.
If the government takes over health care in this country, there will be a Darwinization of medicine. Government claims agents will be appointed to decide whether or not your life is worth saving or if it’s “necessary” to provide treatment. The government will decide which doctor you will have, what kind of treatment will be allocated, and when. Like Canada. Like Britain. Like Germany. You will have no choice.
If you think the cost of medical treatment is high enough now, just wait if Obama gets his way.
Who do think will foot the bill for this train wreck? If you said “the already overburdened taxpayers”, congratulations.
The socialized medicine in Europe and Canada is so dicked up that seriously ill people will fly or drive here to get treatment. If anyone is stupid enough to believe that we should model our system after theirs, by all means travel to Canada, and see for yourself. And take a number.
The bottom line is the government wants to take away your choice of employer-sponsored insurance and private insurance, and replace it with an exclusive government-run health care system.
No one in their right mind wants the government to seize control of their health care.
We’re called “rascist”, “nazi”, and “un-American” by leftwingnut media pundits and politicians who thought that all of the bizzare, rabid, violent crap pulled by the anti-Bush/anti-military crowd was just great.
Newsflash sweetpea, It ain't his skin color we hate, it's his socialist mentality and agenda.

Redneck Roy| 12.23.09 @ 11:06AM

Great write up SFC MAC. Without going into great detail you for got to mention the Messiahs cancellation of National Prayer Day and replacing it with National Muslim Prayer Day. Let the truth be told my brother.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.20.09 @ 6:27PM

Deeplyamerican

You, sir are a liar....and a coward.

Worse, you are stupid. heh.

SoCon| 12.20.09 @ 6:30PM

Deeply is a Nazi, too. Sieg Heil, liberal fascist!

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HatlessHessian| 12.20.09 @ 7:06PM

This guy has fascism-on-the-brain. In May, he equated unfunded Medicare costs to "nazi air force attacks on Great Britain"

Incidentally, doesn't this bill radically slash Medicare funding? Maybe that'll point us toward the real Fascists out there. Like O.J., Whitehouse is on the chase to seek out those American Nazis.

Dell| 12.20.09 @ 7:08PM

"..all manner of vulgar, belligerent, hateful speech from the Conservative Hate Machine."

Sir, your diatribe falls on two deaf ears in this household. I've just lived through NINE years of what YOUR folks said about George W. Bush. You have no complaint. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. As your ilk have told me, GET OVER IT. I suggest you take your own advice.

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Ed Driscoll » Two Wrong Turns Don’t Make A Right links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Video YouTube Direkt In other dispatches from the world of liberal fascism, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) displayed his best Dick Durbin impersonation on the Senate floor today, smearing conservative Republicans as Nazis for being against the same sort of socialized medicine ultimate brought to fruition in… National Socialist Germany. Take two copies of 1984 out of petty cash Sen. Whitehouse…

victor| 12.20.09 @ 9:08PM

Steve Grimsley| 12.20.09 @ 9:49PM

These poor liberal Democrats can not distinguish between malignancy and erstwhile oppostion. To all ye who declare Republicans vile and baseless, you will be defeated and we will do all within the limits of the law to defeat you and banish you from the halls of government. You are anathema to free enterprise and must be crushed like a styrofoam cup. Barack Obama's skin color, religious heritage, prejudices (claimed or unclaimed) matter not to us. His policies foretell an America we abhor and will stop at nothing to stop before his dreams come to fruition. We subscribe to the America Ronald Reagan espoused, not Barack Obama. So, stop the name-calling, and get ready for war. You will be defeated and ground into the dirt as a trashable laughable political philosophy that imploded from the weight of its own taxation, unemployment, overreach and mendacity. May you be judged by the fetuses you so gleefully abort.

Aine| 12.20.09 @ 10:32PM

Our Senator Whitehouse just never ceases to amaze me with his bizarre and vicious posturing. He says he cannot recall Bush being compared to Hitler, and does his best to convince us Obama is a victim of racism and worse. If that were so, Obama would never have won the election. Enough with the race card, please. It's been overplayed and has long ago lost its impact.

Senator Whitehouse and his wife have fascinating and revealing bios. The senator is not a blue collar liberal like the state he represents. The couple are very wealthy and privileged. I, for one, am tired of over-educated elites who loathe America thinking they know what's best for the rest of us. Americans are quite capable and resilient, but liberals prefer think otherwise in the hopes that we will abdicate our personal power to them. In places like Rhode Island, it's worked very well, unfortunately.

Our smallest state owes America a huge apology, I'm afraid. We are the people who sent this unit to Washington, along with Patrick Kennedy, Jack Reed, and James Langevin. It's a small political gene pool where corruption and cronyism is a well-entrenched fact of life. And Sheldon Whitehouse proves it.

Yosemeti Sam| 12.20.09 @ 10:33PM

Hmmmmm.

senator Blighthouse, congresswoman broomrider, senator Turbin - perhaps more, but who's counting - each have alluded to the GOP, the citizenry and Club Gitmo guards who pamper imprisoned terrorists as Nazis.

So who's been re-coining the word for nefarious
propaganda effect?

Liberal Reader| 12.20.09 @ 11:02PM

Whitehouse's remarks seem accurate to me. The Republicans did not engage the health care debate in good faith. The world knows they distorted the truth to scare people. Their huge lies about "death panels" were absurd and cynical. Whitehouse has got it right, here, McCain.

SoCon| 12.20.09 @ 11:28PM

What about Obowma's oft-repeated lie about keeping ObamaSCare negotiations transparent? Didn't see much C-Span coverage, did you? Sneaking, behind-closed-doors liars, cheaters and thieves; corrupt democrats are big- league whores.

Redneck Roy| 12.23.09 @ 11:26AM

If I remember correctly Republicans were not invited to the Health care debate, all discussions were behind Obamas transparent closed doors. Death panel lies huh! well you should look up "section 1233, page 425 of the original document" .

MarxistScumInControl| 12.20.09 @ 11:18PM

@LiberalReader: I can see how Whitehouse's remarks might seem accurate to you... You think Republicans "distorted the truth"...
THERE WAS NO TRUTH TO DISTORT...
SCARE PEOPLE ??
YOUR Inexperienced Chicago Punk is enough of a scare all by his lonesome...

"huge lies" about death panels.... ??
NEWS: A division or "panel" within a government program which makes LIFE or DEATH decisions based on whether the recipient of that healthcare is worthy of a "quality of life" rendition of medical care, IS A DEATH PANEL.

Someone telling your 89-year-old grandparent that he/she CAN'T have a life-extending procedure which he / she COULD HAVE HAD before, IS A DEATH SENTENCE...

WHO, is the executioner ??

deeplyamerican| 12.20.09 @ 11:38PM

From: Laughing at the Right -

Conservatism has a long and justifiably proud tradition in this country, and is as American as apple pie. However, it has dramatically changed over recent decades with the emergence of the more secular rightism of Barry Goldwater and especially the New Right activism under the leadership of folks like (the late) Paul Weyrich and Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and others. That is, it has dramatically devolved to a dogma driven ideological movement and relentless cultural warfare. Recall that the aforementioned Paul Weyrich founded the Heritage Foundation and also the Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell. In fact, Weyrich coined the phrase “moral majority”. As one of the foremost conservative leaders of our time, his influence on conservative policy and practices cannot be overstated. What should concern free-spirited Americans of all stripes are the avocations made by him and others of the New Right persuasion, perhaps best exemplified in his publication “Integration of Theory and Practice” wherein he states:

From Paul Weyrich's training manual -

1.Falsehoods are not only acceptable, they are a necessity. The corollary is: The masses will accept any lie if it is spoken with vigor, repetition, energy and dedication.

2.It is necessary to be cast under the cloak of “goodness” whereas all opponents and their ideas must be cast as “evil.”

3.Complete destruction of every opponent must be accomplished through unrelenting personal attacks.

4.The creation of the appearance of overwhelming power and brutality is necessary in order to destroy the will of opponents to launch opposition of any kind.

Sound familiar??

True Conservatives are inherently skeptical .. cautious .. even loath to take leaps of “faith”. Historically, they greatly value empiricism and are resolutely guided by it in policy formulations. .. and they are pragmatic. The party also has progressive roots, valuing incremental change over revolutionary shifts. Sadly, this empiric discipline has been replaced by dogma, hubristic confabulation and a descent into hysteria. And, in the face of the catastrophic failure of “supply-side” economics .. driven by a party that controlled the Presidency, Congress, or Both for the last 14 years prior to the last election, the GOP has mired themselves and this country in a miasma of failed policies. They've also burdened this country with a legacy of debt. As a factual matter, since 1945, four of every five dollars of added national debt were accumulated under Republican presidents, a total of $7 trillion. Blinded by ideology .. they are unable to come to terms with what they've done and are desperate, in the Weyrich tradition, to destroy anything that runs counter to their failed beliefs. Worse still, the GOP has codified all this into a “true republican” litmus test that is antithetical to many of its progressive roots, and antagonistic to all those in the party that advocate reform.

I don't think this is what John Adams had in mind for the American colonies. True pragmatic, working, deliberative Conservatism evolved well into the 20th century .. as exemplified by the Eisenhower and Rockefeller Republicans (now derisively called RINOs .. Republicans In Name Only). In its place, the current Grand Old Party's conservatism has devolved to a sad, twisted, ideologically driven parody of its former self .. a parody that came to devastating fruition under Ronald Reagan and G.W Bush, now led by hate radio talk show and television hosts. Sadly for all of us, this pestilence of failure will be with us for years to come.

SoCon| 12.21.09 @ 12:09AM

With a Democrat administration stuffed with Marxist and Communist thugs, perverts promoting deviant sexual practices to our youngsters and numerous tax cheats I hardly think the Republicans constitute the 'pestilence' here. Democrat Epic Fail!

True American| 12.21.09 @ 12:18PM

Excellent expose' and well researched,it is exactly the reason why, after 30 years of supporting them, I will never support the conservatives again. They have been taken over by the right wing lunatic fringe. I owe GW Bush for opening my eyes and exposing them for the liars they are.

Patriot| 12.21.09 @ 12:35PM

Unlike you brain dead democrats who've been taken over by Marxists and Communists. Traitors.

True American| 12.21.09 @ 1:12PM

"Marxists and Communists", you left out boogieman!

The real traitors out there are the ones that call for the failure of America. And work feverishly to that end, like you.
The only braindead heads out there are the ones that are unable to see reality and only believe what their overlords tell them to believe. Another term to descibe them would be "dittoheads". Again, like you.

Patriot| 12.21.09 @ 5:53PM

You mean 'real traitors' like fascist democrat azzclown, Harry Reid, who pronounced the Iraq War was lost BEFORE the Surge took effect? That kind of traitor who wishes failure on our country?

Yeah, your kind of traitor. We will deal with the lies and corruption of your filthy party next November. Fascist tool.

Redneck Roy| 12.23.09 @ 11:35AM

I am relieved you have (re) turned to the Left Wing Lunatic Fringe for guidance it must suit your mentality. Oh Yea.

JohnFLob| 12.20.09 @ 11:40PM

Sen. Whitehouse, deeplyamerican, and Liberal Reader:

I have a 4 letter word you may find obnoxious and terrifying - FACT.

Supply verifiable links to prove each of your claims is a FACT. Otherwise crawl deeply back under your rocks.

FACT there I've said it again.

True American| 12.21.09 @ 1:01PM

You first John, show me where the healthcare bill will kill grandma? Or a government takeover, or death panels. Publically financed abortions, or healthcare for illegals? Provide some facts please.

Patriot| 12.21.09 @ 5:56PM

Read the bill, moron; Google it. Typical democrat liar--you losers don't know anything else.

Franklin| 12.21.09 @ 12:17AM

"propaganda, obstruction and fear"

I'm confused. Wasn't he supposed to be talking about the Republicans?

But this is from the Democratic playbook!

X and X| 12.21.09 @ 1:13AM

Eisenhower? Eisenhower would be ashamed of the liberal culture and entitlement politics of today Ashamed! And rightly so!
The Senate is in Washington because Reid (my piece trumps 2 pieces of NJ) wants the Bill passed by Christmas.

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They rely on empty arguments and speak lies;They conceive trouble and give birth to e links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…point, as Erick Erickson stated, the polls indicate that Congress is set against a majority of the people of this land. Robert Stacy McCain wrote extensively about Senator Whitehouse’s words about you and me and all those who oppose ObamaCare (My emphasis added. See the link for McCain’s emphasis.): This afternoon, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) gave a speech in which he quoted Richard…

Barbara Espinosa| 12.21.09 @ 3:25AM

Because I oppose solicalized medicine, I've been called a potentional terrorist, teabagger, a threat to the nation,a racist and now a Nazi by people who have been elected to represent us. CALL ME WHAT YOU WILL, I STILL OPPOSE SOCIALIZED MEDICINE and the burning of THE CONSTITUTION

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The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Madness Takes Its Toll: Democrats Play Psycho-Politic links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…of judgment, frantic and desperate now and willing to do strange and unprecedented things, willing to do anything, even throw our troops at war in the way of that day of reckoning.” – Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Dec. 20, 2009 It’s astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll. . . . I remember doing the Time Warp . . . – Riff Raff, The Rocky Horror Picture Show , 1975 Those…

yghj| 12.21.09 @ 8:26AM

I'm so proud. Whitehouse is my Senator! Eat your hearts out those of you in Red states! By the way, this piece of work once said he was running for the Senate because he was born and bred to be one.
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S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 8:57AM

"Democrat Compares Health-Care Opponents to Nazis"

That's horrible. As we all know, it's only okay to for REPUBLICANS to call their opponents Nazis, fascists etc. Like this piece here:

"The Fight Over Fascist ObamaCare Is Only Just Beginning"
http://spectator.org/blog/2009.....st-obamaca

hahaha

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Airline Woes Mean Little Or No Posting links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…damn the will of the American people, before Christmas, before it has been revealed in its details, before it has been read by those who are supposed to vote on it, have now accused Republicans of attempting to ruin the Christmas of staff. “Fuck you” hardly does justice to my sentiments. Posted in Uncategorized Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (will not be published)…

Mark R| 12.21.09 @ 9:22AM

Ok... so Sen. Whitehouse is complaining about right wing haters with engaging in hate speech of his own? Absolutely embarrassing... and he is my Senator as well. The fact is, the majority of Americans are against this legislation, and most of these people (myself included) are not birthers, members of Arayan groups, or give a rats ass what the color of Obama's skin is (he is half-white you know!). And to you "yghj"... you are 'so proud' that your Senator engages in hate speech? You should be ashamed of yourself... you left wing hater!

Timothy L. Pennell| 12.21.09 @ 9:30AM

Let's see....In response to that IDIOT, deeplyamerican (when there's a Democrat in the White House) Obama IS a MUSLIM. He was born to a MUSLIM FATHER. That makes him a MUSLIM. And, please, don't say that he belonged to a 'CHURCH' when he was in Chicago. What kind of CHRISTIAN CHURCH hands out 'LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS' to the RACIST, ANTI-SEMETIC, AMERICA HATING, Louis Farakhan? The LEADER of the NATION OF ISLAM. What CHRISTIAN CHURCH takes field trips to see MOAMAR KHADAFY? And, by the way, what CHURCH does our Christian President go to now? Oh, I forgot. He's been there a YEAR, and he hasn't been to aChurch.
He DOES hate this country. See who he's surrounded himself with, his entire adult life. He is GODLESS. He doesn't NEED to go to Church. In his mind, HE is "The ONE We've Been Waiting For". In HIS mind, he IS the Messiah.
He is a SOCIALIST. There's no DEBATE on that. He's a MARXIST. Again, no debate. READ HIS BOOKS. He BRAGS about it. See who he appoints to his Administration. Self professed COMMUNISTS. People who say that the GREATEST MASS MURDERER of the 20th CENTURY is their FAVORITE PHILOSOPHER, and that they 'go to his writings when they need to find their way'. He's got a PEDOPHILE loving FREAK as his SAFE SCHOOL CZAR. He's got a SCIENCE CZAR that thinks that we should be putting STERILANTS in to the WATER SUPPLY. A HEALTH CZAR that thinks that it's peachy keen, if the GOV'T wants to FORCIBLY limit each family to ONE CHILD. An FCC Chairman who ADMIRES the way that HUGO CHAVEZ shut down all of the Media Outlets that disagreed with him. SEIG HEIL!
And, ya know? I do think that he's the Antichrist. "And I saw the BEAST rise from the Sea. And he was given a 'MOUTH' to speak haughty and blasphemous words. And he was allowed to exercise authority for forty two months." Revelations 13-5. Sounds like our Boy, to me. And if he's 'gone' in 30 Months, then we'll have our answer. Won't we.
Idiot.

S.L. Toddard| 12.21.09 @ 9:41AM

This reads like a liberal pretend to be a mentally unhinged Republican in order to discredit conservatism.

Patriot| 12.21.09 @ 12:26PM

Toddard, you would know something about 'unhinged'.

You wouldn't know conservatism if it bit you on your moronic azz.

USPatriotuy| 12.21.09 @ 11:18AM

Re: "Let's see....In response to that IDIOT, deeplyamerican (when there's a Democrat in the White House) Obama IS a MUSLIM. He was born to a MUSLIM FATHER .."
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Wow .. this T. L. Pennell: another glue-sniffer? A gerbil that bit down on an electrical wire.? What a rant ... really did the Spectator faithful proud. Must copy and save this one to show as an exemplar of what "wing-nut" really means. Priceless! .. and thank you.

Patriot| 12.21.09 @ 12:31PM

Patriotuy--you liberals know a lot about gerbils, don't you? lol

beachgirl| 12.21.09 @ 12:00PM

you've gone over the edge.

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The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Democrat Compares Health … American Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Health … Does this look like the kind of spe ech one would expect from true American patriots .. or does this sound more like mob speech Here is the original: The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Democrat Compares Health … By admin | category: american | tags: brian, brien-steinfels, cathleen, from-true, kind, like-the-kind, steinfels, will-still | dotCommonweal » Blog Archive » The American…

True American| 12.21.09 @ 11:50AM

It's about time a Democrat steps up to tell it like it is! Those lying, corrupted, paranoid pieces of s%$# republicans are going to be exposed for the liars they are and they're scared to death of it. People has had enough of the war mongering and greed that they forced on us.
It was no accident they let Bin Laden escape, it was no accident they let oil speculators drive the price up to 150 a barrel, it was no accident they gave investment bankers free reign to use faked mortgage backed derivatives to back up faked profits in the trillions of dollars for themselves! It was no accident they created trade policies designed specifically to destroy good paying American jobs and replace them with slaves in Asia.
It will be a great day when their lies are exposed, the republicans and their ignorant followers are going to be flushed down the toilet with the rest of the puke.

Patriot| 12.21.09 @ 12:29PM

True, your rubber room is missing you.

SFC MAC| 12.21.09 @ 4:01PM

That is one rambling, incoherent, insane comment.
War mongering??? Last I checked, Islamofascist terrorists fired the first volley in this war on 9/11.
Had it been up to me, several countries in the Middle East would have been transformed into parking lots on 9/12. That's how you fight a jihad, but I'm a former Soldier, not a politician.
You can thank Clinton for the intitial failure to catch Bin Laden. And in case you forgot: His response to the FIVE terrorist attacks against Americans during his term: ZERO. The Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole, Khobar Towers, and the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, resulted in Bubba biting his quivering lower lip, tearing up, and doing absolutely nothing...Oh wait, that's right, he wagged the dog by bombing Kosovo and sending us into Somalia.
The Sudanese arrested Bin Laden in 1996, and offered to extradite him. Bubba refused. He never did take the war on terrorism as seriously as Monica’s mouth-to-crotch resuscitation. Three times after Aug. 20, 1998, when Clinton ordered the only missile strike of his presidency against bin Laden’s organization, the CIA came close enough to pinpointing bin Laden that Clinton could have authorized final preparations to launch. In each case, (Clinton’s) doubts about the intelligence aborted the mission. Bin Laden got away.
While your ranting about bankers, faked mortagages, and trillions of dollars, you'd better get your facts straight. The Democrats created the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae debacle, that forced banks to lend, at a subprime rate, to people who had no business getting home loans. In 2004, when Republicans warned that the mortgage programs needed regulation, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Christopher Dodd, et al, insisted that it didn't and accused critics of "rascism". Dems have a habit of race-baiting whenever their socialist ideas are questioned and proven wrong.

Americans are angry and won't take the current regime's jackbooted tyranny. When confronted over their bad policies, they hide in their offices, refuse to meet with their constituents, and fling epithets instead. The Dems are scared to death, and come the 2010 elections, many of them will get well-deserved pink slips.

Patriot| 12.21.09 @ 6:03PM

You're right--9/11 was Clinton's fault. If the filthy old pervert had spent his 8 years in office defending our country from terrorist attacks instead of boinking interns and other assorted women, we never would've been attacked that terrible day.

8 YEARS of Clinton/8 MONTHS of GW Bush; who was to blame for September 11? You be the judge.

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Senator: ObamaCare opponents all birthers and racists; Updat links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…by the speech, then he needs to explain how his denial could possibly be valid. So he’s not just a gasbag demagogue, he’s a lying gasbag demagogue. Update II: Stacy McCain has been all over this, too — including in our Green Room. Be sure to read his report on Jon Kyl’s response. Blowback Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of…

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A Case Study in Republican Rhetorical Incompetence « Calvin Freiburger Online links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Uncategorized video War on Terror waste Wisconsin World War II YAF youth A Case Study in Republican Rhetorical Incompetence December 21, 2009 — Calvin Freiburger Robert Stacy McCain has excerpts from a speech by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), in which he goes completely nuclear on opponents of ObamaCare. In Whitehouse’s alternate dimension, it seems Republicans have filled the debate with lies…

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Another Democrat Calls ObamaCare Opponents “Nazis” « The Foxhole links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Obama. The ‘birthers,’ the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militias and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Obama should exist.” http://spectator.org/blog/2009/12/20/democrat-compares-health-care Note to Sheldon Whitehouse: Obama is a Marxist working in collaboration with like-minded Democrats. I’m a Libertarian-leaning Republican. The only…

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Callie| 12.22.09 @ 12:17AM

OBAMA AVOIDS BIBLE VERSES !

Here are some Bible verses that Pres. Obama avoids:
Proverbs 19:10 (NIV): "It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury - how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!"
Also Proverbs 30:22 (NIV) which says that the earth cannot bear up under "a servant who becomes king."
And Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 (KJV) advises: "let thy words be few...a fool's voice is known by multitude of words."
Although Obama is not descended from slaves, he may feel that he's destined to become a black-slavery avenger.
Or maybe an enslaver of all free citizens!

beachgirl| 12.22.09 @ 10:47AM

You are repulsive, using bible quotes to make your racist remarks. Wonder who the real fool is?

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The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Democrat Compares Health … | Drakz News Station links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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beachgirl| 12.22.09 @ 10:52AM

You are vile. Senator Whitehouse gave a terrific speech, he spoke the truth, and, it seems, you can't handle the truth.

Shelley| 12.22.09 @ 1:26PM

Too bad Whitehouse neglected to mention the only KKK member in the Senate is the vile Robert Byrd, democrat from West Virginia. Sounds like you can't handle the truth.

beachgirl| 12.22.09 @ 9:32PM

Don't be absurd. It's a well known fact that
Republicans wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the face. Robert Byrd is a member of the KKK, that's ridiculous and an outright lie.

Shelley| 12.22.09 @ 10:09PM

Stupid girl, did the hot beach sun fry your puny liberal brains? Byrd most certainly was a member of the KKK; he was a Kleagle or recruiter for many years. I know it's a challenge for you, airhead, but crack open a history book once in a while--you might learn something. Moron.

You democrats fought the party of Abraham Lincoln (US!) in the Civil war so you could keep slavery, terrorized black folks, including lynchings, for decades and fought against integration in the 20th century. You sadsack haters are a joke.

RJ| 12.22.09 @ 10:28AM

The "intellectual" Whitehouse quoted was a fellow named Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter was a member of the Communist Party USA, which was riddled with Soviet spies and was heavily funded by the USSR.

Hofstadter's ideological leanings should be pretty clear. He was quoted as saying "I don’t like capitalism and want to get rid of it" and "I hate capitalism and everything that goes with it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter

So. We have a US Senator quoting a pro-Soviet Communist in an effort to try to smear the 60% of the country who opposes 0bamaCare as a bunch of Klansmen and Nazis.

This is 0bama's America. 2009 = 1984.

beachgirl| 12.22.09 @ 9:36PM

Give it up. You've got absolutely no argument. Senator Whitehouse told the truth. Period. And, today Senator Baucus called them out again. Finally, the Democrats are calling the obstructionists on their behavior, behavior for their own good, not for the good of the country. Country first? Hah.

Shelley| 12.22.09 @ 10:13PM

You are a prime example of a brain dead, public school educated, kool aid drinking liberal moron. Liberals lie and you're no exception.

We're going to wipe the floor with you idiots next November. I can hardly wait.

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Senator: ObamaCare opponents all birthers and racists - Conservative Viewpoint Blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…If he’s standing by the speech, then he needs to explain how his denial could possibly be valid. So he’s not just a gasbag demagogue, he’s a lying gasbag demagogue. Update II: Stacy McCain has been all over this, too — including in our Green Room. Be sure to read his report on Jon Kyl’s response. Americans reject Socialism, Barack Obama, birthers, Congress, Culture of Corruption, Democrats, Economy, Marxists…

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Don't know how I surfed into here, but I guess it's best not to know. Read the headline and I almost half-guessed I'd entered the Daily Show's homepage. Haven't read the comments tho... just shocked at the headline. Shouldn't this be reading "Republican Compares Health-Care Proponents to Nazis"?? Come on, Teabaggers! Where's your pics of Obama with his ubiquitous Hitler mustache? Not to mention his Dachau-like death camp panels. Enough sitting on your haunches, Teabaggers... don't let the demoncrats steal your thunder for Nazi comparisons! Get on the stick or you'll get 4 more years of NOT Sarah Palin!

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