GOP Rep. Rigell Denounces Klayman's Call To Wage An Uprising

[TomCADem]

Source: TPM

Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) shot back on Monday at conservative activist Larry Klayman, who this weekend called for a nonviolent uprising to unseat President Barack Obama.

"I repudiate it," Rigell said in an interview with CNN. "It doesn't reflect my own personal values." Rigell went on to say Klayman's comments were harmful to the country.

"And that type of language is harmful to our country and it's what's puling us apart," Rigell continued. "Look, civility is not weakness. I refer to the President as the President in my home, in my office, and in my district. And I think this needs to be done all across America. It's not about an individual. It's about the office and this is the fabric that holds us together as Americans."

At a Sunday tea party rally attended by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others, Klayman called on the attendees to "wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this President leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up."


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The interesting thing is that Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Sarah Palin not only did not repudiate these comments, but they were actively supporting the rally complete with folks waving the confederate flag. The fact that media does not call Republicans on their hypocrisy in wrapping themselves in the American flag while openly flirting with secessionism just underscores the right wing bias in the media today.

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. We have a non viollent, 100% Constitutional revolution every four years.

The last two in a row have ended with Obama as President. kkklayman is just a sore loserman.

[Cha]

7. Yeah, and a fucking maniac.

[Enthusiast]

15. Yes, but.

"Obama was only elected because of ACORN voter fraud. Thousands of dead people and illegal aliens voted."

That's what they would say, anyway.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

41. Well, it wan't fair that he got all those Martian votes.

[jmowreader]

50. No, no, Romney got the Martian vote. Who the hell else would vote for him?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

51. The Kolobians, of course!

[KansDem]

2. "...called for a nonviolent uprising to unseat President Barack Obama."

A "nonviolent uprising" to unseat the President? How were they going to accomplish this?

[notadmblnd]

11. They have to say "non-violent" to cover their asses. But I don't doubt that they're saying it with a

wink.

[Enthusiast]

45. They were going to wave

signs with bad spelling until the President got sick of it and resigned? He just wouldn't be able to tolerate the bad spelling any longer. "Worse than Putin!"

[tavernier]

52. I Spit out my wine...

Picturing Obama screaming "NO!!! For the last time, it's Kenya, not Can Ya! Oh, fukit, I quit!"

[denverbill]

3. Klayman should rename his uprising 'The Beer Hall Putsch'.

Angry marginalized right-wingers attempting to overthrow the legally elected government.

[heaven05]

21. yep

and look what happened to the perpetrator of that 'putsch'. KKKlayman should just come out, along with palin, kkkruz and the rest of that ilk and just say it. A black man in the white house is unacceptable to their kind. What kind.......

[bluesbassman]

4. As usual, these nitwits have trouble with both history and comprehension...

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

What they fail to realize or understand, is that the men who wrote this were under the governance of a king, not a duly elected government. That they participated in the election process of a duly elected government, and lost, doesn't seem to register with them.

Sure makes the rabble excited though.

[PeoViejo]

5. They can try, and find out....

...what it feels like to be on the wrong end of a 30mm Chain Gun.

[Berlum]

6. Cruz, Palin and their anti-American zealots need to go to their godforsaken Republicon Homeland

far far away from these United States.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Klayman is the type who would let others do the work

for him anyway. He would let the rubes take the fall.

[Faryn Balyncd]

9. Here's Klayman's article stating racism against George Zimmmerman is reason for revolution:

Hate to post to World Net Daily, but this guy is rabid. He has apparently being agitating for a right wing coup for some time.

The following from his article "Racism in the Zimmerman Trial" from before the verdict:

"...In sum, the white legal establishment composed of prosecutors and judges has offered up pawn George Zimmerman as a “human sacrifice” to the black activists, led by President Obama, who want to see the young man “hang.” No matter what the ultimate verdict, this case will stand as a sickening testament to the corruption inherent in not only our legal system, but the body politic as a whole of our once-great nation.

"This is one more reason why we are at the brink of another 1776."

http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/racism-in-the-zimmerman-trial/

[Chemisse]

10. At last, somebody just came out and said it.

This is what they have been trying to do all along. The government shutdown is just the latest effort.

[northoftheborder]

12. This makes me sick.

Just think, a Senator from the state of Texas, not only hobnobbing with that idiot, but fails to repudiate anything he said. I'll never forget this, and I will never let any Republican I know, forget it.

[AAO]

17. And I will never set foot in TX or AZ in my lifetime.

[Jack Rabbit]

13. I can't complain about Klayman

If the TPP is approved, I would also call for non-cooperation with the government and private corporations.

However, Mr. Klayman is dangerous in his own right, his ideas are every bit as undemocratic as the TPP the best thing to do is to pay no attention to him, to Mrs. Palin or to Senator Cruz.

[heaven05]

24. oh, I will never stop paying attention

to him, palin, goober, kkkruz, ryan, cantor, bonehead.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Perhaps those whom we (you, me and everybody else here) should pay more attention are . . .

. . . the Koch brothers, other RW billionaires, and Legs Dimon, Pretty Boy Lloyd and othe banksters.

Those whom you mention are merely stooges of those whom I mention. They would starve without the parasites who feed them.

[heaven05]

36. no argument

no argument or disagreement from me. There are more than three stooges now. They're all over the place.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

42. Yes, your point is correct, but you don't mean to say "the parasite who feed them," do you"?

Not that parasites could not feed anyone, but that's not what they are generally known for.

[Jack Rabbit]

48. I meant the parasites (the 1%) who feed the Tea Party (with money and organization)

The Tea Party is not a grass roots movement. The summer of 2009 happened because the Koch brothers and health insurance companies were bussing Brown Shirts to town hall meetings for the purpose of shutting down discussion. Without that happening, maybe the discussion would have been more of a demand for a stronger bill instead of defending the bill against nonsense about death panels.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

49. Oh, absolutely. I just missed your meaning. Can you imagine if Liberals acted up like those

hooligan RWers at a town hall? Pretty clear whose side law enforcement is on. Also owned by the 1%.

[Enthusiast]

14. refudiate

Get it right.

[IrishAyes]

20. If you want to get it right,

the word called for is 'refute'.

I'm tired of nouns being used in lieu of verbs, and people sticking '..iate' on the end of everything.

TRANSITION IS NOT A VERB, PEOPLE!

[Enthusiast]

27. Sarah Palin would disagree.

It was an old joke.

[IrishAyes]

33. And I'm an old fart, but at least I know it!

[freshwest]

31. But Sister Sarah *insisted* she was right. She bragged she'd invented a new word!

And so see, she's smarter than you! *Wink, wink!*

Refudiate (Urban Dictionary)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Refudiate

Beware, picture of the Saint of Wasilla here:

Sarah Palin Attempts To Explain 'Refudiate' Gaffe

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/27/sarah-palin-refudiate-typo_n_801701.html

Sarah Palin Twitter Post: Refuses To Repudiate 'Refudiate'

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/sarah-palin-twitter-post-refuses-repudiate-refudiate-2641872.html



WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

She's certainly got that last one nailed down. *Yessiree! You betcha!*

The Idiocracy is not a naturally occuring form of government, but one contrived by Teabaggers.

[IrishAyes]

34. I want you to know I downloaded that terrifying picture

And if it scares my computer to death, the way it might do me, then somebody's gotta pay!

[freshwest]

39. Hell hath no fury like the Irish! Or something like that.

My Irish grandmother came to America and married a man who was half Cree. My mother took completely after the Cree side of the family. She had the temper of a banshee when provoked.

Fortunately, that wasn't often. Father was more of your 'Beware the wrath of a patient man' type. I'll never know what got them together, as he was a giant. They did go at it like the English and Irish at times, yes, they did.

He either loved spirited women or else enjoyed playing with fire...

[Enthusiast]

44. Your heritage is

as interesting as mine.

[heaven05]

37. that is one

disgusting picture and right on Sinclair.

[Enthusiast]

43. Funny!

[AAO]

16. Isn't that conspiracy to over throw the gubmint? Seems like the SS should be talking to this guy.

[IrishAyes]

18. Until shortly before SP ran for governor of Alaska,

She and her husband were formal members of a serious secessionist organization. So she's not just flirting with treason, and neither are her followers and fellow travelers.

[Blue_Tires]

19. Rigell is my congresscritter

and when he starts making sense, you know everything has gone past surreal...

[virgdem]

25. I was thinking the same thing..

he's my congress critter as well. I always thought he was tea party, but after some of his recent statements, there's hope for him yet. I still will never vote for him, but at least he's semi-sane.

[Still Waters]

40. Rigell has shown some signs of sanity and decency

A very rare thing from the GOP these days! He is one to watch, I think. Will be interesting to see if he votes for the re-opening/debt ceiling bill like he said he would a few days ago.

What an utterly despicable and irresponsible thing for this idiot Klayman to say! Should be condemned by all...

[mulsh]

22. good for him but why is he the sole repub doing this?

I think it is because by and large the republican establishment is right there with the teabaggers , their beliefs and actions.

[mrmpa]

23. Where's AG Holder??????????

This has to be minimally Sedition under the US Code.

[freshwest]

32. Faux Noise destroyed the concept of treason and sedition during the Bush reign of terror. 1st A.

It's pointless to ask the AG to do unConstitutional acts, even if was satisfying. Just like impeaching PBO would feel good to RWNJs.

[Ikonoklast]

26. None Yet Call It Treason.

[IrishAyes]

35. Well, I do. But I'm just a loudmouthed old fart, retired at that, so what do I know?

[Mz Pip]

30. That's one.

Where are the other 200+ republicans? Quivering in a corner somewhere?

I guess Peter King counts, though. Can't stand the guy but he doesn't live in a bagger infested district so I guess it's safe for him to speak out.

[blkmusclmachine]

38. The Corporate Media is nothing more than a stooge for Republican Talking Points.

Ignore them.

[bobGandolf]

46. What a bucket of waste.

The whole lot of them! They just make me sick. Also make me embarrassed to say I'm American.

[carolinayellowdog]

47. Rigell from Virginia, bad; Klayman from New York, good

get with the program; regionalism trumps all