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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/and-further-off-the-deep-end/2012/06/26/gJQAYM7y4V_blog.htmlAnd further off the deep end...
By Jonathan Bernstein
This week in crazy? We have Darrell Issa endorsing a completely nutso theory that Fast and Furious was all a plot to rally people around gun control (painfully, tragically, disproven: any party eager to find an excuse to push gun control would have used the attempted murder of Gabrielle Giffords). And then Jon Kyl today raised impeachment as a remedy to Barack Obamas new plans for enforcing immigration policy.
It really is worth emphasizing that this kind of thing did not happen on a regular basis when George W. Bush was president. The ideas were out there fringe cranks on the left regularly trotted out bizarre theories about September 11 and shadowy Saudi influence, or whatever. But it stopped there, and it stopped there because responsible Democratic leaders refused to sanction it. The key story that shows the difference? Conspiracy-spouting former Member of the House Cynthia McKinney was basically bounced from the Democratic Party, and she was only a back-bencher to begin with.
By contrast, Issa is a committee chair; Kyl is the Republican Whip in the Senate. You can be sure that there will be no pressure to remove them from these positions for embracing the crazy; quite the contrary.
After all, theyre relatively moderate, compared to Alan West, who claims that there are dozens of Communists in the House Democratic Caucus. And why shouldnt he? Michele Bachmann turned a TV appearance in which she said that Democratic Members should be investigated for disloyalty into a national profile and a presidential campaign. Politicians are quick to see what's rewarded and what's not, and it's pretty clear what's rewarded in the GOP.
Of course Jon Kyl brought up impeachment over a minor policy difference. You dont have to believe in the crazy to be a Republican leader these days, but you do have to at least gesture to it.
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And further off the deep end... (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2012
OP
Since the WaPo sees fit to dismiss me and many others as 'fringe cranks on the left,' please
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#1
I guess I am a fringe crank. It stopped because the 1% Dems didn't have any balls!
OffWithTheirHeads
Jun 2012
#2
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)1. Since the WaPo sees fit to dismiss me and many others as 'fringe cranks on the left,' please
allow me to be the first here to dismiss it as a corporate propaganda organ.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)2. I guess I am a fringe crank. It stopped because the 1% Dems didn't have any balls!
Bush should have been impeached and Rove and Cheny should be in jail as we speak.
spanone
(135,861 posts)3. they are un american. there's no explaining their raw hatred. i find it frightening.
treestar
(82,383 posts)4. Every President has used prosecutorial discretion
especially on regulatory laws. By that measure, Bush could have been impeached for not enforcing OSHA regulations.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)5. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the F and F program
started under the Bush regime and stopped under Pres Obama?
kentuck
(111,110 posts)6. And this needs to be nipped in the bud...
before everyone is talking about impeachment. These crazy people need to be called out on their mental state before they do more damage to our country.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)7. Oh thank you responsible Democrats ...
for enabling the Crazies.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)8. Cynthia McKinney asked why Bush, Cheney etc were making money off war?
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For that, she was destroyed.
No one in the press corpse asked even one follow-up when the warmonger Bush said "Money trumps peace."
The WaPo should be ashamed.