This is a clip of Congressman Barney Frank taking a "teabagger," excuse me, "health care protestor" to task for asking about Obama's "Nazi-like" Health care plan.
First, I fail to see the resemblance between expanding health care to those who can't afford it, and shipping ethnic minorities to work camps and gassing them by the hundred. I just don't see it. Maybe it's because I'm a liberal elitist and blinkered by my college education.
Or maybe because THERE'S NO FUCKING RESEMBLANCE YOU MOUTH-BREATHING, KNUCKLE-DRAGGING MORONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are not enough exclamation points in the world to adequately convey the vehemence of that statement.
Because it's true. There is no comparison to be made here. Not even a little. Not even a teeny, tiny, micro-comparison. Not in a million years.
Now that I've had my daily outburst taken care of, on to the second point. I have seen several folks on blogs, say that they wish Mr. Frank hadn't been so "flip" in responding to that woman.
Really? Because honestly, I don't think he was flip enough.
We have GOT to quit lending credence to these idiots by treating them as if they have serious questions or in any way want a form of meaningful discourse on the subject. They don't. They don't know what they're talking about and they don't care. They don't want someone else to get something. Period. Full stop.
And yes, some of them are just ignorant and need to be educated on the realities of the situation. They might be teachable, if you can undermine the Republican terror-tactics that have them convinced they won't get their heart meds because a 15 year old girl got pregnant on purpose just to have an abortion because they're so "fun," oh, and to kill old people, of course. But an awful lot of these assholes, (re the woman who screamed "Heil Hitler" at an Israeli man while wearing an Israeli Defense Force t-shirt herself, oh sweet irony) aren't interested in learning what the bill is actually about, what it actually contains. Faux News told them that it has Death Panels and abortion on demand in it, what else do they need to know?
Congressman Frank has the right idea. If someone has serious questions and concerns, say if that woman had asked, "I'm concerned about how this will affect insurance I already have, and how will we raise the money for it?" instead of "Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy, why are you supporting it?" then I'm sure Congressman Frank would have answered her question as seriously and politely as she had asked it. But she chose to be offensive and ignorant in her question, and he responded to her with all the gravity she deserved for that question.
Taking the high road is one thing, but when your opponents are tunneling underneath it to the point that it's about to collapse, measures must be taken. We have got to quit treating these disruptive, rude, mean, willfully ignorant jerks as if they are in any way contributing to meaningful conversation on these topics. They aren't. And they aren't trying to.
Mickey Schulz is a guest author for the California NOW blog; her opinions are not necessarily those of California NOW. Copyright Mickey Schulz, with permission granted to California NOW for use on this site.
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