In only the past few days, we’ve seen elected officials, unelected bureaucrats and so-called ‘community leaders’ line up one after another at the public podium to hurl uncivil insults at conservatives, to misguidedly promote some liberal notion of ‘revolution’, and to answer questions with reminiscent comparisons of the past, all to obfuscate issues of the present.
Here’s Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH-D) today comparing Republicans to Hitler, Stalin and Mubarak:
All over the fact that he doesn’t agree with the conservative stance that public sector unions have too much power. He went on to say, “I’m not comparing what’s happening to the workers in Madison or Columbus to Hitler and Stalin.” Then why bring it up, Senator? Because you absolutely wanted to make the comparison
Next we have two ‘geniuses’, Ralph Nadar and Jesse Jackson, and their ridiculous responses to a ridiculous question by a young ideologue: "Do you think there’s a need for a revolution in America, and if so, for what cause?"
Nadar has Big Government’s power confused with the worn out “multi-corporations” line (think he meant “multi-national corporations”). He’s right about the ‘stagnation of institutions’, but fails to see that it is the very Big Government mentality supported by the Left that enables this diminishing ambivalence. Then Jackson says, “We need a revolution to stop the counter-revolution”. Apparently, he, as well as Nadar and the young lady, have different ideas about what’s going on in our society. The motivation fueling the tea party movement IS the revolution to these 60’s retreads’ counter-revolution that has degraded our nation over the past 50 years! Then Jesse goes on to doing what he always does: compare everything to Montgomery and Birmingham, and now he throws Cairo into the mix…(sigh).
Picking up from Jackson’s race-baiting, let’s back up to yesterday’s conversation between AG Eric Holder and Texas Rep. John Culberson during a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting in which the congressman demanded to know why the Justice Department refused to prosecute the Black Panthers in that ’08 voters intimidation case. Here’s how Holder diverted:
"My people?" That's not divisive (Michelle Malkin has a vital message for Holder!). Before Holder gets so defensive, he should understand that the guy wasn't talking about this being one of the worst cases in civil right history; he was talking about this being one of the worst cases in the DOJ for having indisputable evidence and just dropping it! By the way, why are we massively increasing the budget and staff of the civil rights division anyway, when as Holder proclaims there's no comparison in what happened before? Yep, when you don't want to answer the question with the obvious premise (that the offenders were of a persuasion that you didn't want to prosecute...as well as not explaining to the congressman why the need for such a massive increase in the civil rights division), then I guess the usual race-baiting and diversions with stories of guilt from the past serve as a useful option to avoid the question.
You know, for a party that professes to be that of innovation and ‘new’ ideas, despite the fact that they’re much older than the Republican Party, we sure have a lot of Democrats and assorted leftists (but I repeat myself) who are living in the past, and evidently prefer it that way for their political benefit.
