Are there any videos of the Dem Congresscritters consistently using said tunnel access? If not, the repubs are lying.

They are projecting. Inciting a riot is current conservative procedure. They are sure that is what Peolosi et al intended. Of course, they overlook the thought that the tea baggers where exactly where they thought they might encounter Democratic congressmen and women. Of course, overlooking the idea conservative protesters did something right when they positioned their protest is understandable. Most conservative members of congress and media clowns couldn't organize a two car parade.

Not bizarre. Just racist.

The democrat congressmen were attempting to intimidate patriotic Americans who were exercising their first Amendment rights.

Pelosi and Lewis were yelling fire in a crowded Reichstag.

In three years I have never seen Nancy Pelosi cross the street the way...

so I guess the dangerously psychotic loon bachmann is stalking Pelosi to give testimonial on a difference in how Pelosi normally crosses the street.

Best of all, two weeks later, this is the part of the health care debate conservatives are most anxious to talk about. How bizarre.

Well, they're also anxious to talk about how they won the HCR debate by using their goosestepping obstructionist congresspersons to force the whole bill to the right. And on that note, they do have a point.

Two weeks later, conservatives are still talking about the ugly scene -- and are still blaming Democrats for the far-right's thuggish behavior.

Providing this authoritative cover for the brownshirts is just a naked message to keep the rest of the brownshirts everywhere dialed at 11.

I think perhaps they have finally come to accept those bigoted taunts actually happened. So lets give them credit for joining reality, even if it took them a couple weeks to get there. But it can not have been their fault because...well... nothing is ever their fault.

I think Steve is being to kind. This is the offensive 'defense' as the rapist who blames his actions on the victim's clothing.

There is nothing unusual about this line of argumentation at all. In fact, it is perfectly consistent with what experts call the RWA -- Right Wing Authoritarian -- personality, namely one that is entirely incapable of empathy and so sees all reality through its own self-interested lens.

Thus, when President Obama is unable to get a single Republican vote for anything he does no matter what he tries because Republicans have decided it's in their political interest not to give him any votes, then in RWA eyes it's Obama who is guilty of acting in a "partisan" way that rejects bi-partisanship when he gets zero GOP votes.

In the mind of the KKK, it's the Southern Poverty Law Center and not the KKK that is guilting of "fomenting race hatred" when the SPLC takes notice of the KKK's bigotries and racist acts.

And so it is perfectly normal that the right wing would blame liberals for the reaction they got from radical right protesters lining the Capitol steps. Liberals should have known better that the protesters would erupt when Democrats re-created the civil rights marches from a generation ago, and so liberals are entirely to blame for the spittal and the slurs they got.

Once you convince yourself that you are in possession of The Truth with a capital T there is no end to the self-justifying and self-exculpating arguments you can make to rationalize away your own behavior. Just look at the Catholic Church.

Thanks to Cal Thomas, we now have definitive proof that Nancy Pelosi is a Nazi!

Thanks to the National Review for pointing out that my Congressman (Andre Carson - the black muslim) is a liar!

If not for the National Review and Fox News, it is likely that we would never know the truth and blithefully wander through life believing that reality is composed of facts.

Mom was asking for it when she wore that tight Marlboro shirt. Mary was asking for it by being so irritatingly good and pure. So Pharoah turned his army around in retreat? Drown 'em, then laugh about it.

This stuff is ingrained thru thousands of years of authoritarian and religious dogma: the weak deserve to be exploited and abused--and it's all *their* fault.

Those poor teabaggers are victims of a nefarious Democratic plot. How dare black people walk through a majority white crowd? That's just unheard of.

GOP Teabagger response:

You're damn right I spit on that filthy nigger!

How dare those niggers and nigger-lovers walk on the white sidewalk through the front door of the capital building that was built and bled for by good christian real Americans!

Those niggers know they was supposed to go through the underground railroad and enter through the back!

They're actions was intended to provoke us, just like that nigger and those two nigger lovin' jews in Missippi.

They's lucky we didn't lynch that coon!

White power!

I think the fact that it was very nice weather should be worked into the lunacy . It can be shown that the maker of the weather that day had an inscrutable plan that enticed the horrible , etc , etc , liberal etc , etc , as a plain and simple demonstration of the forces of good who are (inexplicably) against the plain evil of affordable care .
The next step in illustrating just how low the far , far left is , is up to the personality of the corrective authoritarian . Corrections including video documents that paint the evil doers as Tea Baggeurs must be explained away (easily) into the wife beater tropes so dear to the right wing . She , He , asking for it , is as anyone can plainly see , a winner for all eternity .
The people making money on this will only tire when they have to actually work for a living in an environment that prizes products that are tangible to the home maker and their families and spouses . Notably absent from the products will be Taser's , Epistles of prevarication , Star Wars etc , etc .

Projection mixed with racism ... coming from the people who carved a "B" into their own cheek to imply violence from the left.

So, the right wing is admitting the Tea Baggers are racists becuase the Dems knew all they had to do was walk down the street to incite teabaggers fury? Maybe John Lewis looked at the white girl Pelosi wrong.

Also good to have Mark Steyn that the right knows the teabaggers are "knuckledragging Tea Party goons." I think every liberal should now refer to the tea party as "What Mark Steyn calls knuckledragging goons."

There is nothing unusual about this line of argumentation at all. In fact, it is perfectly consistent with what experts call the RWA -- Right Wing Authoritarian -- personality, namely one that is entirely incapable of empathy and so sees all reality through its own self-interested lens.

'Ted Frier' nails it. Long story short, these people are sick.

Bachmann:

"Remember when Speaker Pelosi walked arm-in-arm in a civil rights march across Independence Avenue from the House buildings over to the Capitol. . . . They deliberately went through that crowd perhaps to try and incite something."

Most of the ugly incidents (that were reported in the "lamesteam" media) happened on Saturday; the arm-in-arm walk by Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer et al. happened Sunday, so I'm not clear how it incited incidents that occurred 24 hours previously. Unless, of course, Pelosi is so evil that she bends the space-time continuum back on itself, which is certainly possible.

But the perfidy goes far deeper than that!

Because now, you see, the librul media are reporting on the story, trying to make it look like the Teabaggers are complaining, which will only further inflame the provocative forces of the Left!

Next thing you know, the O-bots will be whining about the Teabaggers' reaction to the coverage, again unfairly presenting them as selfish and insensitive, denying them their First Amendment rights and further polarizing the debate in this country.

It's all a nefarious plot by Nancy Pelosi. And Obama. And Hillary. And George Soros and the Queen of England.

Ted Frier, yes, that.

Hmm!!!! very interesting - Bachmann has spent three years studying how Nancy Pelosi crosses the street.

Each day that passes gives more proof to the fact that this woman is insane!

Bleh wrote:

And George Soros and the Queen of England.

American Voters Declare War on the British Empire
March 7, 2010 -- Events in the 22nd district last week caught the attention of the enemies of the United States, centered in the City of London. The election of Kesha Rogers as the Democratic Nominee for the 22nd congressional district, in a three way race, came as a big shock to those who have been acting to destroy the nation, through the controlled fascist policies of the British ‘puppet’ Barack Obama. Kesha received a landslide 53% of the votes, as she campaigned with the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche, emphasizing the impeachment of Obama and saving NASA’s manned space program.

Modern conservatism is a mental disease.

Quite maddening! The slave-master cracks the whip upon the flesh of the "other" while screaming "I'm a victim!" Yes, Dr. King had it right - our legacy of slavery has been damaging to both African and European!

Our far-right brethren today are very damaged human beings if they work so hard to take a plain and simple scene of racial hatred and work into the slave-master's yell! -Kevo

If it (racist comments) where said, they would have been filmed/recorded. It does look more and more like Democrats have adopted Republican tactics. I had hoped Democrats would perform more honestly that Repugs, but I've lost that hope. All I see now are two corporate parties who use their voters to fight each other so they can distract those same voters from the fact that politicos left and right are robbing the people blind. I doubt this comment will ever get published.

I just hope those teabagging traitors are ready for the same treatment that they gave others.

Boycott Republican't owned businesses.

Refuse to serve Republican'ts in your restaurant.

Stop inviting Republican'ts to your home, and let them know specifically that it's because they're traitorous scum.

Disown any Republican'ts in your family, and cut them out of your (and your famliy's) lives.

These people are no longer (if they ever were) sane. They constitute a clear and present danger to anyone who does not share their insane world view. They cannot be trusted. And they have never operated in good faith, nor can they ever be expected to.

It is immensely troubling to 'normal' Americans when brown people and Democrats show their faces on the streets. And they know that. It's been known since the days of Emmett Till.

The narrative feeds their sense of victimization. Over the years I've dealt with a number of people that cannot accept responsibility for their own actions. The mental and rhetorical contortions they go through to rationalize their behavior is breathtaking, as is the utter lack of self-awareness. It's the human condition (sigh).

Gotta love how the side that went out grandstanding on the balcony to the crowd below like Juan Peron blames the _other_ side for incitement.

And since the conservatives are so good at coming up with these lines, why, it almost sounds like they've used them before: "How dare those colored kids try to come to our schools! And how dare they sit at our lunch counters and ask to be served! They're just provoking violence!"

We really don't need to pay any attention to these republican scum.

(: Tom :) @ 11:01
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Stuck with "Big John" Cornyn @ 10:31

Nothing like a family gathering that eventually has the repugs unknowingly(?) contradicting themselves. ;-)

I've actually started daring to believe that we are (finally!) witnessing the slow death of the modern conservative movement-- it has become completely desperate, totally incoherent and only makes sense to its followers. Kicking out folks like David Frum for publicly admitting that losing HCR was a big deal for their side hints that we're at the start of an eat-their-own downward spiral.

zoe kentucky - unfortunately, they will not go willingly into that dark night; they will rage, rage against the dying of the Right. With lots of violent outbursts. Which, ironically, would subject them to treatment as terrorists what with illegal detention and the waterboarding and so forth, if this country was run the way they believe it should be run.

Of course, if Pelosi and the other Democrats had gone through the tunnels, there would be screams about how they were afraid to face WE THE PEOPLE and had to travel through dank tunnels in the dark before consummating their deal with the Socialist Devil.

Well Damn! Don't you know the only reason that girl got raped is because she was strutting around in that provocative attire. Sheesh!

[...] the Democratic Party was looking to provoke a negative reaction. -- Breitbart

You can take a herd of goats to water but you can't make them drink it. If there had been no racism and hatred among the Tea Potties, no amount of "provocation" could have unleashed it.

Yes, Democratic Congressional Representatives directly confronted the Teabilly's mob tactics. Michelle Bachman (as well the rest of these scrote-scukers) can stick a AR-15 up her ass sideways! These people are out of control yet have been afforded status reserved for the graceful. Give the Teabillies the South in one, FINAL gesture afforded those that deserve not even the time of day (which they'll refute anyway). These are not Americans, their actions are not "American", they are uneducated, violent lowest common denominators being incited by a washed up and has been "family values" schtick that has nothing to do with family or values.

45 years ago, I remember the Southern Traitors saying that it was all us "outside agitators" who were upsetting good Southern folk, inciting them to violence.

Today, the Southernist Traitors are doing it all over again. (A "southernist" is someone who espouses the causes of "southernism" - i.e., white supremacy, a belligerent militarized policy of conquest, theft as economic policy, feudal politics, etc., and is not necessarily someone born in the geographic South)

Plus ca change.... as the French say.

ChaoticGeorge@11:00: If it (racist comments) where said, they would have been filmed/recorded. It does look more and more like Democrats have adopted Republican tactics. I had hoped Democrats would perform more honestly that Repugs, but I've lost that hope. All I see now are two corporate parties who use their voters to fight each other so they can distract those same voters from the fact that politicos left and right are robbing the people blind. I doubt this comment will ever get published.

How 'bout we publish it twice? It's quite obvious that you're what we call in these parts a 'concern troll'; a (probably) modestly paid, conservative vandal doing what conservatives do best these days: throw a monkey wrench into our efforts to sort through the madness coming from *your* side of the political spectrum, by pretending to be a liberal who's disillusioned with the left because of a single occurrence of ____ (whatever the issue at hand).

You're a tool and a liar, George! And, if you're not of the Libertarian variety, and believe what your Bible says, you're apparently going to burn in hell for this too.

What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. --Isaiah 5:20

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. --Proverbs 17:15

(: Tom :)@11:01: Stop inviting Republican'ts to your home, and let them know specifically that it's because they're traitorous scum.

Disown any Republican'ts in your family, and cut them out of your (and your famliy's) lives.

I'm already there, Tom. Worse for me, I'm from the rural South and I've pretty much given up on nearly all of my friends and family members. My Tea Partier Sister will never set foot in my house again.

So Andrew Breitbart is admitting that they are bigots? Black people cannot walk by white people because they may incite a reaction? Bout time they told the truth.

And Michele Bachmann spends her time following Pelosi? Does she do anything whe was elected for? Nevermind.

And I so love the "knuckledragging Tea Party goons" from Mark Steyn. Another one finally admitting the truth.

Dunno about anyone else, but I might have gone looking for that crowd and walked through them on my way to make that vote, and it would certainly have been a message.

And that message would have been, "I hope you don't like it."

It is a well-known fact that having a police cruiser drive down a street incites law-abiding citizens to kill and steal.

When I drove a school bus:
"I didn't do it.
Besides, she deserved it.
Everybody else was doing it,
so what are you picking on me for?"

If it (racist comments) where said, they would have been filmed/recorded

And, gee, guess what... they were.

Moron.

Translation from Andrew Breitbart: If those blacks hadn't walked thru a bunchan angry whites, they wouldn't have been called the N word. They should've crawled thru emergency tunnels like rats.

That's what Breitbart is really thinking.

Glenn Beck was early to claim provocation.

... eschewing the private tunnels they usually use ...

The tunnels aren't private, as I suspect Steyn knows. He's probably been in them.

You can take it for granted that if they had used the Congressional tunnels that day instead of showing up, the rightwingnuts would now be complaining that they were secretive cowards. Because this whole thing is about whipping-up emotions in people who can't think straight. I'm trying to figure out what this propaganda is going to look like in three months when the usual emotional fatigue ought to have set in.

Anyone have best video links etc. where we can hear N-word etc?

Isn't there something more constructive that intelligent & progressive people could be doing instead of knee jerk reacting to all of the incredibly stupid stuff that the so called "conservatives" do and say? It's almost like we are more entertained by the absurd antics of the Faux News regulars and a few crazy Republican Congresspeople than we are by serious policy disputes among intelligent people. For instance: there are some truly atrocious provisions in the health care reform legislation, but you'll be hard put to read about them or about real solutions to improve the bill.

From Goose, @22:56:
"Isn't there something more constructive that intelligent & progressive people could be doing instead of knee jerk reacting to all of the incredibly stupid stuff that the so called "conservatives" do and say?"

Short of taking a 2x4 to every hate-spewing Tea Pottier? No. And a good thing, too, because a knee-jerk reaction affects only their reproductive body parts (and those only temporarily), while a 2x4 upside the head might damage the last functioning brain cell each of them might still have.

From the same source:
"[...]there are some truly atrocious provisions in the health care reform legislation, but you'll be hard put to read about them [...]"

*You* claim such provisions exist, *you* tell us what they are -- chapter, verse and page of the bill. BTW... "jungle gyms as outrage" have been debunked already, in case that's what you were about to peddle.

So, goosie, goosie... Give us a gander at those atrocities. Goose-step right up, show us an example.

Let me get this straight. These crazy people are actually saying that its an act of provocation for black people to walk in a crowd of white people. This sounds a lot like it was an act of provocation to drink out that water fountain or sit at that lunch counter. The GOP never learns it can't just say, this is a small fringe of a larger movement. They have to give a wink and a nod to the racist.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the argument here. Democrats heard racist rhetoric from some in the Tea Party crowd. Rather than denounce the racism, conservatives prefer to argue that African-American lawmakers are liars.
m3i zero

Republicans are scum.

"I doubt this comment will ever get published."
Posted by: ChaoticGeorge on April 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM

Hereby proving that everything you say is wrong. That's even worse than a stopped clock, which is at least right twice each day, albeit very briefly.

"I think every liberal should now refer to the tea party as 'What Mark Steyn calls knuckledragging goons.' "
Posted by: martin on April 4, 2010 at 10:13 AM

Couldn't agree with this more. It's one of the inevitable "gaffes" (defined as "when a pol or pundit unintentionally tells a truth") that sooner or later happen, revealing what we knew all along they were really thinking. As such, it should be heavily exploited. The "conservative movement," the "teabeggar movement," and the Publican Party are all splitting asunder; the more we can wedge them, and the sooner, the better.
But I would suggest that the quote be expanded to something like, "What well-known rightwing pundit Mark Steyn calls knuckledragging goons," because he doesn't have quite the name recognition of a Limbaugh, Beck, or Palin. It would also be advisable to be sure to pronounce his last name "Stain," both for the obvious poetic reason, and to ensure that, i line with his own significant efforts, we don't make him sound Jewish, and thus dismissable. (Do you really think it a coincidence that Brooks and Frum are the ones now being excoriated by the teabeggars and conservatroids as apostates?)

Hey, Winkandanod. You sure are comfortable with all the racist rhetoric. Makes me think you might be a proud member of the KKK, or at the least a racist pig teenager trying to see how many times he can use the n-word before someone calls him on it. Go away you fucking racist scumbag.

Hey Benen, so you agree with this racist piece of shit? Is this the kind of commenter that you want representing your site? If so ... fuck you too.

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