Congressman Devin Nunes is a Latino himself (from a wealthy agribusiness family) -- TeaPartiers don't like "beaners" either. Just sayin' !!!

Nunes is selective in his bigotry, isn't he? It is wrong to use the "N" word, but he evidently has no problem with the "F" word for Congressman Frank. Disgusting Rethugs!

So I can smear Nunes by calling him a pedophile and a purveyor of kiddie porn and that would be okay, so long as I am really, really angry at republicans and their obstructionist tactics that thwart the will off the people? Good to know.

ptdb already.

These people have the moral ethic of a rabid weasel. There exists no behavior too despicable for them to rationalize.

Nunes wouldn't know Totalitarianism if it stuffed him full of sausage and shoved a dog up his butt.

So, bigotry = free speech. We really are an incredibly young country, aren't we?

And did he mention his outrage at the 'dictorial' tastics of his on repiglican party in that they demand marching in goosestep to the 'dictates' of the party bosses ?

Totalitarian tactics are when you burn down the Reichstag. Totalitarian tactics are when you shoot your opponents, or send them to the Gulag. The tactics that the Democrats are using are what is known as democratic (small-d) tactics. That is, the majority vote wins. And they are, of course, no different from the tactics that the Republicans used when they were in the majority.

But more to the point: it is the use of inflammatory language like "totalitarian tactics" by Nunes and people like him that incites these idiots to anger, and to utter the slurs that they do. Of course he would justify it; he is the root cause.

Am I wrong, or do they mean 'epithets'?

"First, Nunes is right that in a free country, odious racists are allowed to say offensive things, even to elected officials."

Make that *especially* to elected officials. And elected officials ought to be thick-skinned enough to take it. Nunes pseudo defense here is pathetic, but in the inevitable response to this epithet-tossing, it's important not to let the alternative scenario play out, in which GOP leaders apologize to John Lewis and Barney Frank and this is somehow portrayed as "gracious."

John Lewis and Barney Frank aren't shrinking violets, and they've no doubt heard worse. Thankfully, they certainly *are* thick-skinned enough to take whatever verbal assaults a bunch of tea-baggin' cowards can hurl at them. No one needs to come to their aid, or "apologize to them if they were offended," as the kabuki actors in the theater of political apologies often put it. Of course these epithets are disgusting, but the point that should come out of this isn't that these Congressmen's feelings were hurt, or that Dems and minority groups are offended -- this political season has been far too much of an umbragefest already. What people ought to remember is not what the Tea Partiers' insults say about Lewis and Frank, but what those insults say about the Tea Partiers, and the opportunistic politicians and pundits who embrace them.

My corporate media epic fail dilemma

Can't decide which is the bigger fail:

1) Americans watch 25 hours of tv a week and know absolutely nothing about the current HCR bill...

or

2) Big media's continual cover up of teabagger racism. You'd think one reporter from one network would have gone undercover to some of their meetings to report the true story. Alas, they continue to whitewash the truth with vanilla reporting about disgruntled Americans worried about their country...

Wow. I called Nunes' office and was told the whole thing is a lie -- he never said what C-Span clearly shows he said.

Apparently the divorce from reality is inviolable.

Sadly, orgres like Nunes are the future of the Rebaglickin Party. And as I expanded on "fillphil" downblog, these people become the face of America to the World. The bad image hurts our national security, for real. REM how important national security is, to Rightwingers?

I don't blame the teabaggers either; finally and for the first time their true aganda has been revealed by the two comments and the laughter. Is anybody, I mean ANYBODY really surprised? This has been their core contention all along!!

Nothing makes me more certain that passing HCR is the right thing to do than the character of it's opposition.

Today, Nunes insisted that "everyone has a right to "smear" whoever they want".

But in 2006:

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to condemn the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org for a recent advertisement attacking the top U.S. general in Iraq.

By a 341-79 vote, the House passed a resolution praising the patriotism of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and condemning a MoveOn.org ad that referred to Petraeus as “General Betray Us.”

Nunes voted Aye.

Apparently he didn't think it was okay for anyone to smear whoever they want back then.

Apparently he didn't think it was okay for anyone to smear whoever they want back then.

Why do you think that when Nunes uses the term "everyone" that he's including you?

Any T E A B A G G E R out there who thinks they've got what it takes are welcome to pay up their health insurance and spit on me. I'm sure getting mauled by ten bears is covered.

So according to Nunes, if I disagree with the tactics of a Congressman it's justified to call him whatever I want, ok, here goes, Nunes you are a stupid wetback who lays farts on the House floor. Good, now I feel better.

CSPAN reports that Politico is saying that Obama and Stupak have made an agreement that will ensure Stupak, et al's votes on HCR.

[...] Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) justified the disturbing racist and homophobic epitaphs [...] Think Progress

Egalitarian ignorance, elitist sneer, or is Think Progress accepting the right-wing framing, without any questions asked?

I read the comments by Michele Bachmann's secret crush, Rep. Steve King of Iowa (in Benen's link), and they were equally insulting.

I just don't think it's anything....There are a lot of places in this country that I couldn't walk through. I wouldn't live to get to the other end of it....

Really? Name them. I want to hear, specifically, Rep. King, where in America you would not escape alive. Talk about your false equivalence!

Gee, I remember when the Village peed its collective pants over "angry liberals" for insisting correctly that Bush lied us into the Iraq war. Let's see whether they can get a comparable case of the vapors over truly deranged bigots.

This isn't surprising at all. For a while now I've been expecting the teabaggers to unleash violence -- I mean, a lot of it. And that once it happens, the response from the Republican establishment will be "Well, we don't condone it, but the Democrats brought it on themselves. They're the ones to blame."

The Republicans have finally found their brownshirts.

I'm amazed by all the pejoratives we see today in general. Posts here denounce one word while employing another of the same nature.

"Teabagger" is a disgusting term but somehow it gets a pass. Spare me the evolution of language argument. It would just affirm the use of "faggot" as it's just a bundle of sticks.
Condemn all of it. But for crying out Pete's sake do so in the name of decorum.

Chrenson posted..."We really are an incredibly young country, aren't we?" My affirming argument would be.. "No, just really immature."

Intolerable counterproductive poison.

∞ ≠ ø ☺, I am rather sure that the tea party movement used the term "teabaggers" a few times first because they just didn't know of the other meaning. And sure, people are going to be irritated over such conduct but gee, I would think you'd see the difference between griping *in a blog* at people, who did such things first, versus doing it out in public, doing it to lawmakers, saying to the targets and not just saying it about those who said it, etc. Your false equivalencey is so "immature."

BTW, what is 0^i?

@ ∞ ≠ ø ☺
"Teabagger" is a disgusting term but somehow it gets a pass.

Ummm....
It was the name these bleepholes chose FOR THEMSELVES until the sexual implications were pointed out to them - mostly on progressive blogs!

∞ ≠ ø @17:01,

"Teabagger" and "teabagging" were terms that your rabid compatriots have appropriated *for themselves*, before they learnt about the double entendre and changed their name to "Tea Movement" and "Tea Party". It had not been a term imposed on them, willy-nilly, the way I impose on them my own "Tea Hateriots".

Well, I'm not one to get my shorts in a bunch over GOP hyperbole, because I lost them sometime last night.

My brother-in-law is heading up a Tea Party chapter, and is also a "birther." My sister - who's also a registered Republican - cited that as a primary reason for their recent separation a little over two weeks ago, and told me that he's just become "unhinged and unreasonable" and was increasingly abusive to her and their three teenaged children.

It's sad, because he's certainly no dummy; he's an electrical engineer by trade of considerable experience. I think there are psychological issues at play here, triggered by a loss of employment and his feeling that the orld of white male privilege is crumbling before his eyes. It should be noted that like a lot of teabaggers, he's feeling betrayed by the GOP.

My sister makes no apologies for having voted for Barack Obama in '08, and is contemplating switching her party registration from GOP to unaffiliated. She's a proud conservative, but she's also no fool. She's a registered nurse practicioner and executive director of a rural community health center in California's southern San Joaquin Valley. She says bluntly that the system of health care coverage is "severely dislocated and discriminatory", and thus she strongly supports the Demorats' health care insurance reform efforts. Further, her own professional experience has led her to become part of that small handful of Republicans who actually favor a single-payer system.