They're on the wrong side of history - always have been, and they're starting to realize it.

Them’s fir'in words and actions, or prelude to worship if you happen to be a brainless, inbred white hillbilly (>68% of Amurkans). I'm still keeping my eye on tiny overpriced apartments in Paris. Next up are mobs against healthcare; I won't be surprised when people are injured and property destroyed because of the army of inbred Amurkins epic stupidity following a yes majority (if that is what comes to pass) on the HCR bill today.

Remember that many Republican lawmakers are young enough to have grown up with the college-Republican mindset of everything's a prank, dirty tricks and name calling are de rigeur, and the demeanor of a drunken frat boy is the epitome of social grace. This sort of mud is what they're accustomed to wallowing in. They think they're cool and that's as deep as their thinking goes.

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In one of the great ironies of history, what we're seeing today in this health care reform vote and the insane reactions of the Teabaggers is not the Waterloo of Obama's Presidency, but instead the Waterloo of the GOP. Despite all the Teabaggers' ugliness, it's a beautiful thing to watch.
Posted By: Lemmy | March 21, 2010 at 03:00 PM
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Line-blurring works both way---as in blurring the line between "Republican lawmakers/right-wing activists" and "radicalized religious terrorists."

Welcome to representation, Steve; exactly what sort of constituency did you imagine elected this GOP freakshow into office?

Patrick, they're realizing no such thing. This goes back to the shout of "You lie!" during the SOTU address. The lack of public GOP denouncement of armed citizens showing up outside town hall meetings, or denouncement of the chronic right-wing shout downs inside them. The bald-faced lies that Obama "palled around with terrorists" and "wants to create a death panel to kill granny." And it comes all the way up to the batshittery yesterday.

They may realize that history is being made. And they may realize that health care reform, once enacted, will be as popular as social security, medicare, etc.

But they are incapable of conceiving that they are on the wrong side of this issue — or any. In their own minds they are infallible. In their own minds there are "two Americas." The honeysuckle-scented Mayberry they live in. And the bitter, diseased, entitlement-rich, urban hell-scape they will have to pay for once Jesus makes them all as rich as they deserve to be.

They will probably be in the majority next year because the Democrats have utterly failed to pass any popular legislation. Mandates to buy insurance from one of the most despised corporations in the country will cost them the next elections.

Maybe these tea baggers and right wing protesters should be able to opt out of any of the benefits accorded by the bill. they could throw themselves into the arms of the insurance comapines or see how much help they would get from dick Army and Eric Cantor when their insurance company drops them.

What's the surprise? This is the same party that won the presidency with not a little help from the Brooks Bros Rioters in FL.

They are thugs and, as long as the thuggery is not used against their crybaby asses, admire that sort of behavior.

why, this might make one question the sincerity of the Republicans who, when pressed on the Sunday shows, claimed the Tea Party antics were "reprehensible."

shocking, i know.

hello comment monitor...the hyperlink under the words "well deserved" goes to a huffington post email address and opens outlook startup wizard. it doesn't go to an article.

[Thanks. Link has been removed, and Steve has been informed. --Mod]

But I've never heard of an instance in which House members actually applaud the nut.

Not even, say, when Code Pink shouts down war-related legislation? Even in that case, I don't recall hearing that members of Congress applauded the interruption.

"The people have said no!"

This is the aspect that is fascinating me. My understanding is that the polling data, though it varies from day to day and with the exact question asked, shows a relatively evenly divided population. The most one could say is that there's a slight edge to the "no" folks. But they all seem convinced that they represent the vast majority of the country. Glenn Reynolds is spouting bullshit about "the ObamaCare bill is clearly wildly unpopular" and that passing it will lead to "a constitutional and political crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen in our lifetimes." The same people who scoffed at anti-war protests as just a bunch of fringe nuts are now convincing themselves that the ability to assemble a large and noisy protest reveals some grand truth about the sentiments of the voting public.

Interesting that Tea Baggers claim progressives are the “totalitarians”. Who is it that’s staging noisy street marches, threatening violence against all who oppose them, all to overturn legitimate majority votes?

"Dozen" was a misprint - it has been corrected to "half a dozen."

I am actually amazed we haven't seen serious violence. Yet anyway. This is literally a powder keg. Reports are coming in of increasing militia memberships, increasing gun sales, ammunition shortages. And Republican lawmakers and Fox 'news' and legitimizing all of their fears and even encouraging them.

I remained convinced that the next major terrorist attack on US soil will come from one of these right-wing nut-jobs.

Them’s fir'in words and actions, or prelude to worship if you happen to be a brainless, inbred white hillbilly (>68% of Amurkans). I'm still keeping my eye on tiny overpriced apartments in Paris. Next up are mobs against healthcare; I won't be surprised when people are injured and property destroyed because of the army of inbred Amurkins epic stupidity following a yes majority (if that is what comes to pass) on the HCR bill today.
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you seem as intolerant as the folks you put down. the only difference is that you bring your contempt from the other side of the spectrum.

This presents a picture of a divided, immature, and intemperate government in America to the rest of the World. Those "legislators" are acting against our national interests (as opposed to just objecting and voting against, in conventional ways.)

The Faux-Plutocracy crowd wants an intimidating aura from their movement and to get what they want by the fear of force. They don't want legitimate give and take governance.

[...] the only difference appears to be the suit and the ability to vote on federal policy. -- Steve Benen

You're forgetting their -- very respectable, size-wise -- paycheck, pension plan and health care plan. I doubt that all that many of the yelling Tea Hateriots share those.

Code Pink was silently ushered from two events I watched .
Personally I thank you Grumpy , for the here to for unrealised comparative parity between Code Pink and the Sarah Palin style Kill Kill Kill mentality .
A grateful nation curtsies it heartfelt thanks .
A nation of me

These tactics/antics will play soooo well during the November elections! (snark off)

"They will probably be in the majority next year because the Democrats have utterly failed to pass any popular legislation. Mandates to buy insurance from one of the most despised corporations in the country will cost them the next elections.
Posted by: par4 on March 21, 2010 at 3:32 PM | "

In the year since the election put Obama in the Whitehouse by a large, large majority, and defeated your side yet again, it's been revealing how little your side believes in the "people". The "people" have spoken, and your side refuses to listen. If I were you, I'd think about what it is about a side that loses, and tries to pretend it didn't. Why would the rest of the country trust you again with power? You've proven incompetent, and with a lust of power for its own sake. Maybe the next election will finally prove to you that living in denial is a waste of everyone's time.

I prefer the Asian parliamentary style of "debate"- fist fights on the floor; chairs optional. . .

Having participated in more protests than I can remember over the past 40 years never did I feel threatened or that violence was somehow imminent - even when a peaceful anti-war rally I was part of was tear gassed by the military in D.C. in November 1969.

The people in these rallies today, small though they may be, are clearly capable of violence, and in their certitude and self righteous indignation see nothing wrong with mindlessly venting their inchoate rage at anyone who disagrees with them about anything . However, they need to be given permission to be violent, and Fox Faux News, Glenn Beck and Lush Bimbo stoke all their fears and resentments to incandesence. If there is an outbreak of violence, and many of us have been fearing it since Obama was elected, it will not be domestic terrorism, since it will be not strictly random but targeted at all those they despise.

So watch out, blacks, gays, Jews, Mexicans, Muslims, and any other group that isn't pure 100% white, arian, blonde and blue-eyed. The Nazis have always been here in one form or another, now they may really feel empowered. And the GOP is egging them on.

Hemmingplay, I suspect par4 may be speaking as a progressive type complaining from the left. You realize, lots of very unconservative people don't like having to buy from private companies. They want to buy into the Public Option, which many think was pissed away (altho it just may not have been able to get the votes.) That could indeed cost votes, but from the sort who usually vote for Dems. Isn't that worse? I continue to support Democratic candidates because I think the Repubs need to be stopped, but not everyone on the "left" agrees.

I made my way down to the front of the Capitol today -- one of the Republican congressmen was talking to the teabaggers through a bullhorn, and he just seemed bursting with pride that the nut in the chamber started yelling. "They escorted him out, unfortunately," he said. And then Michelle Bachmann spoke about her fear for the future of the country. Good times.

The worst part of this whole attitude is that when the country comes apart, Beck, O´Reilly, Limbaugh and the rest of that crew will feel absolutely no responsibility at all. If they are still on the air, I suspect they will blame those of us who are trying to keep America America for its destruction.

You can sign a petition to protest this behavior:
http://www.dccc.org/page/s/teapartyfbad .

Well, what do you know? My own non-representative, the not-so-Good-latte (aka Bitter Brew), usually a reliable back-bencher silent and invisible, decided to surface on that balcony, inciting the crowds to further excesses. See photo #5:

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/live-blogging-the-house-vote/?hp

Republicans are evil.

Democrats are stupid.

People are screwed.

"The people have said no!"

I suspect this wasn't a Bush supporter because surely he would remember what the people of Palm Beach County and a majority of Americans ACTUALLY said about him and many of his policies.

did mr cohn get any actual names?i mean since he was there.it would be good to know.

Jeezuz, Benen. Those people Big Lied the nation into unleashing war. They are American fascists. They are the party of Rule or Ruin. They are capable of anything, and you sound like particularly stupid boy scout each time you profess surprise at at that rude truth.

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