Bachmann / Teabagger Rally Compares Health Care Reform to Holocaust

[Richard Blair]

Over the past couple of years, my outrage meter has spiked up to 10 on many occasions. Today, though, it broke. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Mn) sponsored a teabagger rally in Washington today. Almost the entire GOP house and senate leadership was in attendance, and spoke at the rally. Not one of them denounced this banner:

Here's a closeup:

(If you can't quite make out the sign, it reads: "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau Germany - 1945)

I don't often ask anyone to make a phone call. Today I am. Get on the phone and ask Bohener, Cantor, and Bachmann's office why they didn't denounce this type of display? They can't pretend they didn't see it - it was front and center near the stage and podium. (I should also note that I am not Jewish, but House Minority Whip Eric Cantor is -- which is why the outrage meter broke.)

Maybe, just maybe, this shit is finally going to backfire on them.

Michele Bachmann:

Washington Office
107 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

John Boehner:

Washington, D.C. Office
1011 Longworth H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone] Toll-free number

Eric Cantor:

329 Cannon Building
Washington, DC 20515
P: 202.225-2815
F: 202.225-0011

[Raymond McInnis]

http://justabovesunset.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/going-west/

alan pavlik's "just above susnet" blog today -- he calls it "going west" --, winds eerily through american history -- via nathaniel west's "day of the locusts", and adds much detail to the bachmann "protest". take a look.

[Raymond McInnis]

the not-very-well articulated obvious message that underlies the obsessive objection to health reform by the rightwing is what this reform, if passed, implies about so-called larger government's role.

if this legislation passes, and is -- more or less accepted by the public is a necessary role for government -- the fabric of the right's claims about the "proper role" for government begins to fray. the picture that comes to mind is the "camel outside the tent", next "the camel's head is in the tent", and -- before you know it -- "the camel is in the tent"!

everything is documented, especially in the archives of the rachel maddow shows, or in the pages of back volumes of "the nation" magazine, of books. (having rachel maddow daily is like having i f stone's weekly come everyday -- it's muckraking journaism on the tube!)

in 1994, bill kristol and other fellow travelers sensed the momentousness of the proposed legislation hillary-care --, and fought it (sucessfully). this time around, circumstances are different, and we may just get the legislation.

we are still confronted with powerful, behind the scenes forces -- led by dick armey and a couple of others, but financed by moguls who wish to remain in the shadows. that the folks who attended michelle bachmann's "spontaneous" protest were bussed in is now obvious -- maddow's people have video-taped confessions.

what i find "funny" about the incident organized by bachmann is the role played by boehner and cantor. at first, evidently, bachmann was advised NOT to organize the protest rally, then, OK, do it, but don't expect us to participate, but -- as we saw clearly -- the gop leadership came out and became active participants, regardless of the "over-the-top" signs brandished by the so-called spontaneous protesters in the crowd.

how will history record that fact that the gop leadership joined the "whackos"?