Yes! People are put to death for treason.
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No! It's just fine Rick Perry threatens Ben Bernanke.
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Perry and his ilk proclaim "love" for America and hate for Americans. They're dirt. Scum. Human trash.
Riding the Tiger?.........
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Perry's rhetoric was not an explicit threat; nonetheless, the implied threat is not simply a disagreement over how to accomplish the goal of reducing the debt, increasing revenue, and revitalizing the economy - it is but one more example of the bully mentality, and implied threats, that the GOP has chased after and nurtured in an attempt to use the extreme right as a shortcut to re-energize itself.
As John. F. Kennedy had said, however, "...those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
Throughout history, there have been those whose hubris gave them the self-delusion that they, unlike their predecessors, possessed the unique ability to tame that tiger, and sought power by riding the frenzied anger of discontented mobs. Their rides have been universally short-lived; and yet, there is no shortage of those who believe themselves superior to all who attempted it in the past.
The current Republican so-called "leadership" is no different. After declaring in public, even on national television, that "moderates were not welcome in the new Republican party", and giving their blessing to a "RINO hunt", they went on to adopt the idea that "the enemy of their enemy was their friend", and as a result, embraced, and even made excuses for, the worst behaviors and the most vile rhetoric of anyone who opposed, or even hated, President Obama.
If the GOP was the only segment of the population reaping what they have sewn, it would be politically interesting; the problem, however, is that they are directly responsible for enabling those who have not only brought governance to a halt (having evidently taken their Oath of Office with their fingers crossed behind their backs), but worse, who seem to not know anything about their own job description, and seem to have not read the Constitution, aside from the First, Second, and Tenth Amendments (even though they also descry the Amendments as being "not part of the Constitution 'as written'", despite the explicitness of Article V).
Much of what we hear now is not merely rhetoric, but veritable word-salad - words strung together, spoken with great conviction, yet having no real meaning or logic. The Right has been misusing, and recklessly throwing-around, so many words, including "treason" and "socialism", that the words no longer have any meaning beyond eliciting a reflexive knee-jerk anger. For Perry, who has often spoken of secession to, in so many words, 'get the Federal government off the back of Texas' (and yet snapped up Federal stimulus dollars like a hungry bass hitting a baitfish, and then begged for even more Federal money after a lot of land and a few homes were burned by wildfires) to imply that Bernanke is "guilty of treason" is a very, very bad joke. And yet, the most pathetic aspect of his statement is that a large number of Americans will swallow Perry's irresponsible faux outrage hook, line, and sinker.
It's been reported that Karl Rove "slammed" Parry for his "treason" comments - but I don't think that Rove has any right whatsoever to complain - it was his party's "strategy" to try to grab the "tea party" tiger by the tail and ride it to power, and it's only his own hubris that blinds him from seeing what that self-same hubris has, in large part, wrought...
Perry professes to be a Christian, but if he is a true Christian, then I'm the man in the moon.
Perry is a perfect self righteous phony GOP Tea Bagger who uses religeon to get votes .Bachman Pery Mitt are Anti US worker & womens rights Anti education Anti SS /Medicare - Anti jobs as long as Obama is Pres. Anti disabled, old, sick , mentally ill anti EPA clean air /water, anti FDA safe RX drugs- but ALL for More Corp tax cuts- loopholes/ OIL subsides at our expense. Like the Robber Barons of the 1900 's era ' Gilded Age ' when super wealthy reigned supreme. Know your history or you are bound to repeat it.
The rick perry (doesn't deserve the honor of a proper name) is little more than a bully that is a wholly owned subdidiary of foreign bodies who have proclaimed intention to destroy the US government by any means available.
The perry threatens little old men with violence for doing their jobs. Not even brave enough to face his "foe" in person, but uses TV to threaten the life of a US government official for doing his job. This is EXACTLY like Billow Riley being responsible for the murder of Dr. Tiller just as if he paid that loony money to do the job. (Whatever we may think of Mr. Bernanke or Dr. Tiller they are professionals doing a legal job these ersatz Christians have not been able to get outlawed.) Are we in an old mob movie where some little shopkeeper gets roughed up by the "boss" for not "playing ball"?
BTW: the perry, and Michelle Moonchild, and others are preaching this twised Dominion Theology. Look it up. It's a mess of Bronze Age prejudices and superstitions, a hatred of everyone and everything in "the world", and a suicidal desire for this Rapture to come any moment (that they think destroying the environment and wiping out whole populations is somehow fulfilling prophecy). They hate everything about the Constitution, the laws, and our "libertine" way of life. Their conception of the America they want to "take us back to" is something like a cross between the 1880s Gilded Age of the Robber Barons and a theocracy just like Iran under Khomeni and Achmedinnajad (or however their names are spelled).
Are we seeing the fulfillment of Robert Heinlein's darkest visions: the tele-evangelist Nehemiah Scudder who rose to power as the First Prophet, turning the US into a theocracy, pretty much taking the world back to the Dark Ages of Europe on steriods for centuries? Apparently it was so dark Heinlein couldn't bear to write it, and all we have is a few short passages in other stories and an outline. Sounds like the Third (or Fourth) Reich and it's mellenium of power that some still whisper about.
Yes it sounds like he is making threats and it is always the people who say they are the true Christians. What can you do with people like this? VOTE FOR OBAMA.