Why, Harry Reid, why? #unforcederror #idiot RT @politico Reid: GOP filibuster of financial reform “anti-American”. http://bit.ly/aIZVmm
Why, Harry Reid, why? #unforcederror #idiot RT @politico Reid: GOP filibuster of financial reform “anti-American”. http://bit.ly/aIZVmm
Rather, let us ask, “why not?” It’s the same thing the Republicans did when they had power every-time the Democrats tried to stop something. I fail to see how this meets any of the hash tags you apply to it.
While we are at it, remember, if you support the tea parties you are a racist. No really, this guy, Tim Wise, actually does make a somewhat coherent argument for why this is so. I’m not going to say it is air tight, but it certainly points out a massive number of logical inconsistencies on the right. And I always enjoy mocking Republicans for being dumb, I mean for their logical inconstancies, oh dear, I repeat myself…
It’s the same thing the Republicans did when they had power every-time the Democrats tried to stop something.
Yes, and we criticized it as utterly beneath contempt — how DARE they say, or imply, that Democrats are “un-American” or “anti-American” or “unpatriotic,” or whatever, merely because of honest policy differences? Yet now it’s okay because all’s fair in love and politics? Sorry, but no, there some things you just shouldn’t say, and calling the loyal opposition “anti-American” because they disagree with you on policy is one of those things. That is a VERY VERY EXTREME accusation, and it should be only ever be used, if at all, in VERY VERY EXTREME situations. This is not such a situation.
(For instance: you can make a case, I think, for the notion that the GOP’s support of torture is support of an “un-American” policy. Or, on the flip side, if you honestly believe that the Dems want to institute socialism, you can say that’s an “un-American” idea. Your premise would, of course, be wrong — but IF the premise were correct, that would be a valid use of “un-American.” But this? The GOP’s use of a standard procedural maneuver to block a financial reform package that they oppose on its merits, “un-American”? That doesn’t even make sense!)
I think this is yet another example showing that when the Democrats’ were crying foul about being labeled “un-American” or “unpatriotic” (something that wasn’t actually occurring), they were really just projecting.
I’m with Brendan, its a stupid thing to say. It was wrong when the Republicans did it, its wrong when Democrats do it.
When Democrats criticized the war in Iraq, with 80% of Americans agreeing the war was obviously a disaster, they were called unamerican. When Republicans filibuster a bill that could protect Americans from a repeat of the financial disaster that occurred at the end of the Bush Administration, they’re called unamerican for it.
I can see the label, “unAmerican” going back and forth, with the the one consistency that Republicans are always on the side against the interest of Americans.