Rep. Alan Grayson gives mad props to "Over The Cliff"
Alan Grayson emailed in some props for our new book "Over the Cliff," How the Election of Barack Obama Drove the American Right Insane.
Rep. Alan Grayson:
At their hugely popular website ‘Crooks and Liars,’ John Amato and David Neiwert have helped to expose the fact that there is no conservative party in America any more. They show that the right wingers are not conservatives, they are anarchists.
The only law the right wing believes in is the Law of the Jungle. No schools, no hospitals, no job programs, no nothing. Their idea of nirvana is Mogadishu. See it there, at ‘Crooks and Liars,’ and read it here.”
Only Alan Grayson can put something in perspective quite like that.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Mogadishu sounds like the name of the newest dance craze...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the Pork Mogadishu for lunch?
That's a good way to describe a bunch whose grasp of the nuances of governmental systems are so vague as to confuse socialist and nazis.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
... the 'socialist' thing started with idiots like Beck, but it's been picked up by people you'd think were smarter than that.
There are many types of anarchist but these people aren't really anarchists. They have a shifting political ideology that changes to whatever they believe benefits themselves at that moment in time. King George as Imperial President ... yeehaw! Pres. Obama appoints a Special Advisor for Green Jobs ... ohmygodohmygodohmygod it's the end of the republic!
I'd call these people ... Regressive Self-Centrists.
A round of Clif Bars for everyone !
Thanks for an extremely powerful metaphor! The thing that kills me is, these "conservatives" were oh so critical of Bill Ayres (who was once an anarchist, not a terrorist) and his actions 40 years ago. He has since redeemed himself, but redemption is not in these folks' vocabulary, though some claim to be Christians. What hypocrites these "conservatives" be!
Do they even make green stamps anymore?
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves — S&H Green Stamps .
... Christian/conservative redemption is based on accepting the views of the people who hold you in disdain. It's like an abusive husband beating you and demanding you love them, obey them, respect them in return.
It's a one-way street as far as they're concerned, because they're right, you're wrong/unworthy/sick/depraved/lazy/weak.
I've met some pretty decent Christians... Jews... Hindus... Wicca Witches... etc etc.
"Christian/conservative" ... it's a particularly vile subset.
Lysol Spray.
you'll need it!
you hit the proverbial nail on the head!
Where's ann colter and laura ingraham and michael weiner and g gordon liddy...and I have to go back to work...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why I like Alan Grayson.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
He could of said Kurt Cobain.
without the brown people...
Just a little bit of info regarding c-span. The hosts of Washington Journal will no longer allow callers to use the words "tea baggers" when referring to the tea party people. They have determined the words are "disrespectful".
As for the words from Grayson, he knows quality when he sees it and reads it here at C&L. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdQAv0MAHk&fe...
These repug polititions wouldn't even exist if not for the ignorance of their brain washed followers. The repug motto: keep 'em stupid. This is why they want to distroy the public school system.
a copy off of amazon.com. Great deal with prime.. only 12 bucks. Really excited to get into this. Thanks Amato and Neiwert!
A hearty thanks to The #1 US House Representative in the country. Go, Alan, Go-Give em Hell!
Maybe it wasn't always and isn't everywhere this way, but it seems to me that these days, the more right wing the position, the more likely it follows some crass and stupid notion of a "law of the jungle."
There were (are, I guess) people who consider themselves "Social Darwinists," but today's right-wing zealots would hardly consider themselves "Darwinist" in any way. Their frothing hatred of Darwin is obviously a cover for their deep reliance on the crudest version of "survival of the fittest." It is obviously the psychology of bullies.
But not only has evolutionary theory come a long way in rejecting such a simplistic scheme (though it still has a long way to go), I think that one of greatest contributions of Abrahamic monotheism has been to validate (if rarely to live up to) precisely the opposite attitude: "the meek shall inherit." Judaism was a religion of slaves, and Christianity initially spoke to the persecuted and downtrodden; Jesus was certainly committed to using nothing but "the powers of the weak" (title of a book by Elizabeth Janeway). The truly immoral leaders and figureheads of contemporary rightism know nothing about this. And the weak and powerless whom they lead are clearly in their thrall. Of course it's enraging, but it's so terribly, terribly sad.
huge congratulations to David and John on the growing success of the book. I've followed your writings for years, Dave (only discovered C&L more recently), and you're one of the clearest and most sober writers on these terrifying issues.
It's no accident that America, an anti-intellectual society, has a low average education level and therefore an extemely high precentage of regressives, reactionaries, and conservatives, not to mention a high percentage of people identifying themselves as "Evangelical Christians". A land of excess also has a very politically-disengaged population, with easily swayed "independents".
If you don't learn science, history, geography, etc. and fail to understand the world in practical and real terms, you're likely to believe some pretty stupid shit.
Next thing you know, you're hanging out at Sarah Palin rallies.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
Oddly this comment replicated...:-/
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Alan Grayson/Anthony Weiner ticket in 2016?
I love Alan, but I think Stephen Marche in this month's issue of Esquire is closer to the mark - "The tea partiers claim they're the only true inheritors of the revolutionary fathers when they're really just nihilists, against everything and for nothing".
I'm disappointed that such progressive authors, from such a progressive site chose to print their material on paper only. How about saving some trees and making this book available for us Kindle users?
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