The Real Anti-Americans

[Danno 1,228]

The Real Anti-Americans

By Patrick J. Buchanan

As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the "n-word" at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.

Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill.

Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they've been threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene phone calls they got.

If true, this is crude and inexcusable behavior. And any threat should be investigated. But Democrats are also exploiting these real, imaginary or hoked-up slurs to portray themselves as political martyrs and to smear opponents as racists and bigots.

This is the politics of desperation.

Majority Whip James Clyburn accuses Republicans of "aiding and abetting ... terrorism." New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the Tea Party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during Kristallnacht:

"How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn't recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht." [The Rage Is Not About Health Care ]

Kristallnacht, "Crystal Night," the "Night of Broken Glass," was the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages. Synagogues were torched and hundreds of businesses smashed. Shattered glass covered the streets. Women were assaulted and men beaten and murdered. After that terrible night, half the Jews remaining in Germany fled.

To compare a brick tossed through the window of a congressional office and two shouted slurs to Kristallnacht suggests a growing paranoia on the left about the populist right.

Not since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made "some Americans run off the rails," said Rich, have we seen anything like this.

Was Rich awake in 1964? Because it wasn't the right that went off the rails. The really big riot in 1964 was in Harlem, lasting five days, with 500 injured and as many arrested. The Watts riot in 1965, Detroit and Newark in 1967, Washington, D.C., and 100 other cities in 1968, all bringing troops into American cities, were not the work of George Wallace populists or Barry Goldwater conservatives. They were the work of folks who went "all the way with LBJ."

Nor was it Young Americans for Freedom that burned ROTC buildings, vandalized professors' offices, toted the guns at Cornell or took over Columbia in 1968. And it was not the Birchers who set off that 1970 explosion in the Greenwich Village townhouse that killed three radicals and aborted the terrorist bombing of the NCO club at Fort Dix.

No, this was not the New Right. This was the New Left, and it was Obama not John Boehner who used to "pal around" with one of the boys who did the Pentagon and Capitol Hill bombings.

As for calling Barney Frank a naughty name, that is not nice. But one wonders what Rich thought of the students marching under Viet Cong flags chanting, about the man who signed that Civil Rights Act, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" and, "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is going to win," when American boys were dying in the hundreds every week fighting the communist NLF?

The 1967 attack on the Pentagon, where thousands tried to break through military police to get into the building, was the work of left-wing radicals. Did the Tea Party folks who chanted, "Kill the bill," outside the House behave worse than that?

Some of us recall the anarchy of May Day 1971, when 15,000 leftists tried to shut down Washington on a Monday morning by rolling logs onto Canal Road, smashing car windows, blocking traffic circles and wilding in Georgetown. Most wound up behind a chain-link fence at the Armory.

How many were arrested on Capitol Hill Sunday a week ago?

Not one Tea Partier, man or woman.

The "mass hysteria" of the Tea Party right, writes Rich, is at root about race. "By 2012 ... non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party is virtually all white. ... Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded."

Rich is implying that when America's white majority disappears, in 2042 according to 2008 Census Bureau projections, the day of the white conservative is over.

Given the rise in ethnic consciousness among all Americans, Rich may be right. But it is not just white folks who want illegal aliens deported and legal immigration curtailed, while 25 million of our own are out of work or underemployed.

A Zogby poll for the Center for Immigration Studies found that 56 percent of Hispanics, 57 percent of Asian-Americans and 68 percent of African-Americans think legal immigration is too high.

If the Tea Party folks think it is leftist elites who detest and wish to be rid of the America they grew up in and love, they are right.

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[ready4ONE 5,400]

The Real Anti-Americans

By Patrick J. Buchanan

As Democrats, after a Sunday rally on the Capitol grounds, marched to the House hand-in-hand to vote health care reform, Tea Partiers reportedly shouted the "n-word" at John Lewis and another black congressman. A third was allegedly spat upon. And Barney Frank was called a nasty name.

Tea Partiers deny it all. And neither audio nor video of this alleged incident has been produced, though TV cameras and voice recorders were everywhere on the Hill.

Other Democrats say their offices were vandalized and they've been threatened. A few received, and eagerly played for cable TV, obscene phone calls they got.

If true, this is crude and inexcusable behavior. And any threat should be investigated. But Democrats are also exploiting these real, imaginary or hoked-up slurs to portray themselves as political martyrs and to smear opponents as racists and bigots.

This is the politics of desperation.

Majority Whip James Clyburn accuses Republicans of "aiding and abetting ... terrorism." New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the Tea Party treatment of Democrats to Nazi treatment of the Jews during Kristallnacht:

"How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn't recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht." [The Rage Is Not About Health Care ]

Kristallnacht, "Crystal Night," the "Night of Broken Glass," was the worst pogrom in Germany since the Middle Ages. Synagogues were torched and hundreds of businesses smashed. Shattered glass covered the streets. Women were assaulted and men beaten and murdered. After that terrible night, half the Jews remaining in Germany fled.

To compare a brick tossed through the window of a congressional office and two shouted slurs to Kristallnacht suggests a growing paranoia on the left about the populist right.

Not since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made "some Americans run off the rails," said Rich, have we seen anything like this.

Was Rich awake in 1964? Because it wasn't the right that went off the rails. The really big riot in 1964 was in Harlem, lasting five days, with 500 injured and as many arrested. The Watts riot in 1965, Detroit and Newark in 1967, Washington, D.C., and 100 other cities in 1968, all bringing troops into American cities, were not the work of George Wallace populists or Barry Goldwater conservatives. They were the work of folks who went "all the way with LBJ."

Nor was it Young Americans for Freedom that burned ROTC buildings, vandalized professors' offices, toted the guns at Cornell or took over Columbia in 1968. And it was not the Birchers who set off that 1970 explosion in the Greenwich Village townhouse that killed three radicals and aborted the terrorist bombing of the NCO club at Fort Dix.

No, this was not the New Right. This was the New Left, and it was Obama not John Boehner who used to "pal around" with one of the boys who did the Pentagon and Capitol Hill bombings.

As for calling Barney Frank a naughty name, that is not nice. But one wonders what Rich thought of the students marching under Viet Cong flags chanting, about the man who signed that Civil Rights Act, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" and, "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is going to win," when American boys were dying in the hundreds every week fighting the communist NLF?

The 1967 attack on the Pentagon, where thousands tried to break through military police to get into the building, was the work of left-wing radicals. Did the Tea Party folks who chanted, "Kill the bill," outside the House behave worse than that?

Some of us recall the anarchy of May Day 1971, when 15,000 leftists tried to shut down Washington on a Monday morning by rolling logs onto Canal Road, smashing car windows, blocking traffic circles and wilding in Georgetown. Most wound up behind a chain-link fence at the Armory.

How many were arrested on Capitol Hill Sunday a week ago?

Not one Tea Partier, man or woman.

The "mass hysteria" of the Tea Party right, writes Rich, is at root about race. "By 2012 ... non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party is virtually all white. ... Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded."

Rich is implying that when America's white majority disappears, in 2042 according to 2008 Census Bureau projections, the day of the white conservative is over.

Given the rise in ethnic consciousness among all Americans, Rich may be right. But it is not just white folks who want illegal aliens deported and legal immigration curtailed, while 25 million of our own are out of work or underemployed.

A Zogby poll for the Center for Immigration Studies found that 56 percent of Hispanics, 57 percent of Asian-Americans and 68 percent of African-Americans think legal immigration is too high.

If the Tea Party folks think it is leftist elites who detest and wish to be rid of the America they grew up in and love, they are right.

Post your comments here:

http://buchanan.org/...-americans-3831

[Danno 1,228]

you know, at some point in time you are going to have to expand your rebuttals past "spell-chek" and clever photos.

Edited March 31, 2010 by Danno

[besaangel 18]

you know, at some point in time you are going to have to expand your rebuttals past "spell-chek" and clever photos.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

you know, at some point in time you are going to have to expand your rebuttals past "spell-chek" and clever photos.

Keep up with the great work Danno! Or should I say "keEp upp with the gerat work!"

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

"PJB hits it out'o the park"

Guess its a shame that his performance is little league, rather than major league.

[SMR 368]

Keep up with the great work Danno! Or should I say "keEp upp with the gerat work!"

Wow, not only did I not find your original response at all witty (I don't understand how that picture applies to the OP in the slightest), but when you get called out for not actually ever responding meaningfully, you simply prove it.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

politics of desperation

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Posts of Laziness

[Peikko 1,575]

Posts of Laziness

Tea Party politics is for the lazy, what's hard about shouting sieg heil? Or should I say 'illegal aliens out'

I couldn't believe McCain calling in Palin to boost his popularity. Talk about taking the easy way out. Unbelievably stupid.

[alienlovechild 75]

Tea Party politics is for the lazy, what's hard about shouting sieg heil? Or should I say 'illegal aliens out'

I couldn't believe McCain calling in Palin to boost his popularity. Talk about taking the easy way out. Unbelievably stupid.

Lazy enough to throw out the Nazi talk again for the tea party?

The good news is the Democrats really believe that so they are going to lose big time when the elections roll around in 8 months.

You don't think McCain saw the writing on the wall and had his pollsters out there? You don't even know who he's running against of that I'm sure or why he sought Palin's endorsement. You forgot to compare Palin to Eva Braun to tie up yet another neat package of blatant political ignorance.

[Peikko 1,575]

Lazy enough to throw out the Nazi talk again for the tea party?

The good news is the Democrats really believe that so they are going to lose big time when the elections roll around in 8 months.

You don't think McCain saw the writing on the wall and had his pollsters out there? You don't even know who he's running against of that I'm sure or why he sought Palin's endorsement. You forgot to compare Palin to Eva Braun to tie up yet another neat package of blatant political ignorance.

Palin is nothing more than eye candy and fluff. If that's what McCain thinks his campaign needs when he's under threat, then clearly he's lost his marbles.

As for the rest, grow a pair.

[alienlovechild 75]

Palin is nothing more than eye candy and fluff. If that's what McCain thinks his campaign needs when he's under threat, then clearly he's lost his marbles.

As for the rest, grow a pair.

What a detailed analysis of the Arizona senatorial race! You must have copied it in crayon while wiping your bib. A multitasker at her finest.

I'd explain the dynamics of the situation to you but it would be like teaching a fish how to ride a bicycle.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

What a detailed analysis of the Arizona senatorial race! You must have copied it in crayon while wiping your bib. A multitasker at her finest.

I'd explain the dynamics of the situation to you but it would be like teaching a fish how to ride a bicycle.

I didn't respond to Danno's original post because the tired tirade of the Right, of which this is just another one, i.e. "Look at the Dem's, can't even take a death threat!" is getting played. The Republicans lost, and lost big time for the last three years, and they have embarked on a slash and burn, if we can't rule America we will make it a country not worth ruling tear ever since. Your conclusion that their tactics will result in big win's next election cycle is premature. If people are smart, they will vote out every incumbent regardless of party affiliation.

[alienlovechild 75]

I didn't respond to Danno's original post because the tired tirade of the Right, of which this is just another one, i.e. "Look at the Dem's, can't even take a death threat!" is getting played. The Republicans lost, and lost big time for the last three years, and they have embarked on a slash and burn, if we can't rule America we will make it a country not worth ruling tear ever since. Your conclusion that their tactics will result in big win's next election cycle is premature. If people are smart, they will vote out every incumbent regardless of party affiliation.

The economy tanked and Obama and crew have done a miserable job so there's little to slash or burn with high unemployment for the foreseeable future, failure on dealing the housing sector, a runaway deficit, a failed stimilus package but at least we'll eventually have a European style healthcare system in the end and the price tag to boot.

Obama must run on his track record not hope and change so he's screwed if all his party can talk about is the GOP=the Nazi party- that's not smart. People have never voted out all the incumbents and they win 90% of the time; however, most of the incumbents are Democrats so they will take a beating unless a miracle happens.

I've asked it before but I'll try again. Which sectors of the economy do you expect to lead us out of the recession? Supposedly, we are already in a recovery but most people just don't see it.