I have a master's degree in American history, but I'm by no means the end-all when it comes to speeches on the House Floor. The question is, has there ever been another speech where a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives actually hung a socialist indoctrinated photo of the President of the United States? Maybe there has. Maybe during the Cold War it was a regular thing for Members to stand up and portray the president as a socialist commie. Maybe McCarthy did it. I have no idea. I just think it's a pretty low point, much lower than Wilson heckling the president, that we have now entered in our national discourse. Just to be certain that Rep. King's portrait of President Obama was designed to portray him as a socialist, here is the original.
I think it's fine for National Review to do whatever is they want to. There's certainly nothing wrong with their cover story. For a Member of Congress to actually take that picture and post it on the House Floor is another thing altogether. Obama is a war president. He inherited two on-going wars from his predecessor. He is now in the process of ordering more and more troops into battle. Anyone who dared depict George Bush as a socialist while he led our Great Armies into battle would have been spayed or neutered. The GOP would have been the first to jump all over something like this had it happened to one of their own. Where are the Obama surrogates at in defending the president?I can write all day long about the disgusting behavior of the Republican Party. They have moved so far into fringe territory that their idea of honest debate is saying the president wants to kill old people. That's crazy territory not seen in a long time in America. But the true failure here is the Democratic Party. The true point of where it all went wrong was the weakness of the Democratic Party to hold together a caucus and defend their presidents. And I stress the plurality of "presidents."
The GOP has long been on a path of conspiracy theorists and right wing extremism. It didn't start this year. All thr
oughout the 90s Republicans did the same exact things they are doing now. Did we all forget that Republican Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana actually held a 10-day hearing on whether or not President Clinton's Christmas cards were being mailed to people with moral values? Not only that, as bizarre as it may be, Burton-- an incumbent Congressman-- actually "fired a bullet into a 'head-like object' -- reportedly a melon -- in his backyard to test the absurd notion that former White House counsel Vince Foster was murdered," by First Lady Hillary Clinton. This is not a whackjob nut on the street. Burton was a ranking Republican. He actually took to the House Floor the conspiracy theory the First Lady murdered someone. Incredible and sad if it wasn't so true.The 90s were a crazy time and the GOP was sure to add just the right mix of insanity to the decade. Not only were the Clinton's murderers, a claim proudly displayed by Republican Christian Conservative and Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell that he sold copies of a documentary about it. A preacher with a huge conservative following led a crusade against the president built entirely on lies. Sound familiar?
There is no shortage of Republican conspiracy theories. They govern with them. They run their campaigns on them. They build their movement by spreading the lies. Now today with a black president running the country their fantasy world has spun out of control thinking their extremely moral value party is no longer in charge, and worse yet, lost it to a black man named Barack Hussein Obama. Their tactics have been known for quite some time. They did the very same things to Clinton; it was 8 solid years of one conspiracy theory after another. Nothing has changed. But it needs to. The only way to change it is to make them own their behavior. Why is no one defending President Obama from these lunatics? There is no other way other than to make them own it. Allowing this to continue is really a Democratic failure of the worst kind.
