These people are life's losers, the ones who have not only got dead-end jobs but dead-end lives, and the only thing they had going for them was "at least you're white." And now they don't even have that. The "Republican base" we're seeing is the same social strata that a certain Austrian tapped into in Germany a few years back.

Glen Beck makes $50 million a year, Rush Limbaugh makes $44 million a year, Brian Williams makes 15 million a year, Wolf Blizter makes 25 million a year, Chris Matthews makes 4 million a year, Bill O'Reily makes 20 million a year, etc, etc , etc .. meanwhile the teachers of your children make about $30,000 a year.

Here is proof of two things: (1) the law of unintended consequences and (2) a month is an eternity in politics.

The crazies were just supposed to make a "small" disturbance. Oops. These are people that HATE authority because of the shittiness of their own lives. The hate has been released. It cannot be put back as easily as it was brought out.

eric

I fear that I'm losing my sense of humor about dangerously unstable crackpots.

Beck's Stormtroopers

From the wiki:

The Stormtroopers (in German Stoßtruppen, "shock troops") were specialist military troops which were formed in the last years of World War I as the German army developed new methods of attacking enemy trenches, called "infiltration tactics". Men trained in these methods were known in German as Sturmmann (correctly "assault man" but usually translated as Stormtrooper), formed into companies of Sturmtruppen ("assault troops", more often and less exactly Storm Troops). The infiltration tactics developed by the stormtroopers are still in use today, in one form or another. Other armies have also used the term "assault troops", "shock troops" or fireteams for specialist soldiers who perform the infiltration tasks of stormtroopers....

Glenn Beck is just a punk, who has been given airtime by a powerful overlord - Darth Murdoch! -Kevo

-- he has one of the more conservative voting records in the House. When he held a town-hall meeting in his district on Thursday, Inglis' constituents were probably pleased to hear about his opposition to health care reform.***************

Let's stop calling them "Conservatives". They conserve nothing but the staus quo, and add a continuous volume of ignorance, fear, bigotry and hatred. Let's call them 'Regressives'. It's the Progressives VS. the Regressives all the time anyway, so lets call it like it is. They can't choose for us what we call them. They deny us the respect of calling us the Democratic Party, so let's make it stick. R=Regressive, R=republicans.

I saw beck for the first time yesterday. I now understand republican infantalisim.

Actually, Mr. Inglis, it doesn't sell soap anymore. Proctor & Gamble pulled their advertising from Beck's show.

And: what, no TWIG?

Way to go, teabaggers. Alienate the Congressmen who might be on your side. Keep on humiliating them in front of their consitutents and filming it for YouTube. It'll work just as well for you as George Allen's stroke of genius about calling a student journalist "macaca" worked for him.

Would it be too tinfoily to suggest that at this point some Americans are beginning to reject the very notion of civilization itself?

Interesting counterplot...

Zasloff over at Kleiman's blog suggests: Mobilizing the Health Care Troops: Bring Back the Big Dog

Makes good sense to me...

Good Dr,
Having lived in Michele Bachmann's district for several years, thats not tinfoily, just a keen observation.

The medicine you need

I fear that I'm losing my sense of humor about dangerously unstable crackpots.

I forgot to post this on last night's terminal thread:
Bill Maher's New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country

That brilliant stuff will bring you back into balance...

This is no time for half measures. Our president is a left-handed Kenyan who wasn't sworn in properly and who doesn't know how to throw a baseball properly. Thank God Americans are beginning to wake up.

They don't need the party, they're a movement. They only lack a leader.

"A left-handed Kenyan who can't throw a baseball."

Burn the witch!

Keep it up, Democrats and RINOs like Inglis.

Every time you interfere with our First Amendment rights to shut down other people's First Amendment rights, you create more anger among real Americans.

Keep it up.

They don't need the party, they're a movement. They only lack a leader.

Fortunately she just gave up her day job and can focus 100% on this cause. Sarah, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you...

Well said, Myke K. With you here I don't feel like a lone voice crying in the wilderness.

Misery does love company doesn't it Al ? Amazing how actual fact cause you and your miserable company to become even more delusional isn't it ? Whoops, I forgot ... the Earth is flat isn't it ?

Thanks, koreyel. I would say LOL, but to avoid confusion I'll say I did in fact laugh out loud.

Both Al and his pall, the one who can't spell Mike correctly, who both collect Social Security and use their Medicare are the very types who scream all their stupid, mindless, drivel about Obama and his 'socialism' while, at the same time, screaming for the government not to take away their rights to these government/ socialistic programs.

Oh, Sarah and the Brawling Basket-Cases, what awful news for you. Guess who proposed the Senate amendment to cover end-of-life counseling (AKA "Death Boards"). Siddown now. Breathe.

None other than flaming liberal Johnny Isakson (R-GA)!

while, at the same time, screaming for the government not to take away their rights to these government/ socialistic programs.

I would love for the "government" to take away my Medicare and Social Security. More precisely for Congress to do its job and kill these unconstitutional progams.

I've made enough money to support myself and I have a lot of friends in the medical field who would spot me free care.

If liberals worked as hard as I have they wouldn't have to beg for the government to take care of them. It's called responsibility.

Poor people are poor because they deserve to be. Poor people don't get healthcare because they haven't worked hard enough for it.

You must look great in your white KKK outfit Mike with all the sniveling ignorance foaming out of your mouth.........

I do look great in white.

My white doctor's coat.

Just so everyone is in on the joke, Myke and Al are parody trolls.

I tune into Beck's radio show for a few minutes every now and then-- the man is a perpetual outrage machine. If we could only harness his outrage and convert it into energy I think we could power most of the midwest.

Beck's latest and most frequently repeated criticism of health care reform is that it is nazism, he said the other day it was just like how Pol Pot and Stalin got their start. Not kidding or exaggerating. Yes, trying to provide universal health care coverage (not even truly universal coverage) is just like Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.

So if Beck's followers really believe any of this it's like the old philosophical arguement-- if you had a time machine would you go back and kill Hitler? That is what truly frightens me about Beck and his crazy 9/12ers his group that is literally called "We Have You Surrounded." Forget Limbaugh, Beck is about 10x scarier, 20x more hysterical far and more likely to insight violence.

Paranioa + rage + fear = predictably bad outcome

The one other thing that befuddles me is what would Beck have to say to truly cross the line and lose his corporate sponsors? To lose his job?

It is a shame that we have one in office that could possible make it better for every one and nothing will get done because we have sore losers and the punks like beck and rushbaugh can all sit back and laugh at what they have their puppets are doing My worse nightmare would be to have someone like rush and Sarah in the highest office.... God help us all. I hear echoes of let them eat cake............
It is just a shame...

the haters are into the attack mode version of "feeding frenzy" at this point. just the other day, a southern democrat [can't recall the state at the moment] got teabagged, despite the fact that he's a blue dog who's been opposing obamacare...