Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Obama's Political Opponents Are Calling For Coups And Encouraging Assassination

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Over the weekend a friend sent me a link for a Facebook polling asking whether President Obama should be killed. I called a friend of mine who works at the Secret Service. They were already on the case. Yesterday People For the American Way broke a story that I found considerably more disturbing than Joe Wilson's "You lie" screech at the Joint Session of Congress. This outbreak was from another extreme right wing Republican congressional backbencher looking for some attention, Trent Franks, whose Arizona district stretches from the suburbs west of Phoenix through Glendale and Sun City and up to the northwest corner of the state. It includes the bandit polygamist communities around Colorado City, the Hopi Indian Reservation, Lake Havasu City (home of London Bridge). McCain ran up a hefty piece of his margin of victory last year in Franks' district which has a PVI of R +12.9. Franks was re-elected with 60% of the vote.

Arizona Republicans tend to be very conservative. And Franks is the worst of a bad batch, easily the most reactionary member of the state's congressional delegation. His overall, career-long ProgressivePunch score is 2.15 (out of 100) and since Obama was elected president his score sank down to a big fat zero. Franks is an angry and driven man who feels he was dealt a bad hand in life. He's filled with irrational paranoia, bigotry and hatred. And, of course, he's a birther. Normally the Republican leadership keeps him away from the cameras and microphones but this week he escaped from the reservation and found an opportunity to declare President Obama "an enemy of humanity." Watch:



"Obama's first act as president of any consequence, in the middle of a financial meltdown, was to send taxpayers' money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries...there's almost nothing that you should be surprised at after that. We shouldn't be shocked that he does all these other insane things. A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can't do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity."

-Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ)

Congressmen like Franks and Wilson enable the violent nuts the same way Republican hate-talkers Savage, Limbaugh, Hannity, Couler and Beck do. And sure, enough, yesterday evening John Perry from extreme rightist website Newsmax upped the ante:
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic... Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.

Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don’t shrug and say, “We can always worry about that later.”

In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.

The people behind this revving up of violence and social unrest are the losers from last year's election-- the disgruntled, angry right-wing of the Republican Party.

UPDATE: Franks Is A Closet Case!

Franks is part of a circle of gay evangelical preachers and their pals. Sometimes you put up a post and you get the most interesting phone calls! It's funny-- it's so predictable that the most hysterical anti-gay maniacs are always the big closet queens.

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5 Comments:

At 10:49 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is wrong with these people? He was elected, he is OUR president just like GW was OUR president. If anyone spoke out against GW like this or showed up with loaded weapons at one of his events they would have been locked up as a terrorist.

Enemy of humanity? Give me a break! Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were enemies of humanity and should be locked up for the rest of their lives for the damage they did to our country both here and abroad.

It's time to fix the problems and work together. Nothing that comes out of DC is going to be perfect, but what these radicals on the right are doing is unacceptable and needs to be stopped. Free speech is one thing, but these elected officials and other hate groups have gone too far.

I had hope OUR country was finally on the right path and just might grow up after the last eight years, but now I see that the fear of change (hopefully for the better) has caused some to forget that now is not the time for divisive rhetoric, but a time to work together towards a shared goal of peace and prosperity.

Can we do that? I am thinking now that it may not be possible.

 
At 11:10 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

To anonymous at 10:49 AM, George W. Bush was not an elected President from January 2001 through January 2005. He may have been sworn in, but to equate the Obama Presidency to Bush's first term is a travesty.

 
At 1:07 PM, Blogger Jack Jodell said...

Sounds to me like these crazy right wing bastards are trying to stir up revolution and acts of terrorism. It would appear that a one way trip to Gitmo woulf be in order for all of them.

 
At 1:24 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

I really think that it's boiled down to this: there are people on the "right" that have gone so far over to the extreme that its not worth giving them the airspace or time to engage them in debate.

When was the last time you saw someone representing Anarchists or Fascists on or major news outlets? You never do, because they're insane. Here's the only real response I could imagine giving a guy like John L. Perry:
http://thesepeopleareanimals.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/bring-me-the-head-of-john-l-perry/

 
At 9:00 PM, Blogger Bruce said...

I remember Speaker Gingrich bellowing about how bad the government was even though he was a big part of it. I remember him talking about bringing down big government and about blowing it up and starting over. Then some losers came out of the woodwork and blew up a federal building in Oklahoma, killing 168 people including very young children. The wounded came to over 600. Gingrich is smart enough to know that his words mattered. They supplied a feeling of approval and encouragement. They say what they say and sit back and wait. I bet Newt and many other Republicans smile when they think about that. Evil is as evil does.

 

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