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House Democrat: All that’s missing from the tea party are the robes and hoods
HOTAIR.COM ^ | 03 APRIL 2010 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 04/03/2010 10:29:59 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Of all the incendiary smears of tea partiers over the last few weeks, this one’s my very favorite. Not only is it relentlessly nasty, especially for a congressman — note the cute little joke he makes near the end referencing McCain’s torture in Hanoi — but it’s part of a critique of, ahem, right-wing vitriol. Come for the finger-wagging about civility, stay for the George Wallace and Kristallnacht analogies.

Then again, that’s par for the course. As Ed Driscoll reminds me, what makes this clip extra special is the fact that Steve Cohen himself was compared to a Klansman and targeted with anti-semitic innuendo by — ta da! — his Democratic opponent in the House primary two years ago. No one understands better than he does, in other words, just how vicious some of his own fellow travelers can be, but there’s a narrative at stake here and he knows his part in it. Nice job staying on-script, Steve.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 111th; congress; democrats; elections; memphis; stevecohen; teaparty; teapartyrebellion; tennessee; tn; tn2010
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1 posted on 04/03/2010 10:29:59 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They are absolutely terrified that large numbers of Blacks will figure out that it is not about race at all. Rush is right, they will tell you what scares them.


2 posted on 04/03/2010 10:33:19 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
All that’s missing from the tea party are the robes and hoods

I think Dem Senator Byrd is still using the all.

3 posted on 04/03/2010 10:33:22 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

All that’s missing from the DemocRATik Party are the swastikas, brown shirts and jackboots. However, their fascist Nazi tactics are out there for all to see. All you have to do is look.


4 posted on 04/03/2010 10:34:47 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help! I've been Alinskyed by the Obamanoids and I can't get up!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
House Democrat: All that’s missing from the tea party are the robes and hoods

Tea Party Member: All that's mising from the Obama Party are the Jackboots.

[... they've already got the thugs, doncha know ...]

5 posted on 04/03/2010 10:35:08 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

My goodness they are scared.


6 posted on 04/03/2010 10:35:25 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He oughtta know. The Dems and their kindred started that particular hate group.


7 posted on 04/03/2010 10:36:16 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Al Gore’s father would be proud.


8 posted on 04/03/2010 10:36:16 AM PDT by CommieCutter (Why does it seem that all the poor Welfare people are FAT?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He oughtta know. The Dems and their kindred started that particular hate group.


9 posted on 04/03/2010 10:36:16 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Jolla
>>>>>>>>>>>>My goodness they are scared<<<<<<

And ignorant, and arrogant.

10 posted on 04/03/2010 10:36:40 AM PDT by irish guard
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

All that’s missing from the Democrats are the lynching ropes and Gas Chambers.


11 posted on 04/03/2010 10:37:53 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/TeddyVWad.jpg)
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To: Jolla
My goodness they are scared.

I don't know why - they "won."

12 posted on 04/03/2010 10:44:59 AM PDT by fwdude (It is not the liberals who will destroy this country, but the "moderates.")
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To: nolongerademocrat

Yep, of all my acquittance voting on the right, 2 said the name ‘Hessian’ the problem of electing him so soon after Saddam being removed, the racism is imaginary or on the left


13 posted on 04/03/2010 10:45:00 AM PDT by Son House ("Warning! Warning!" "That does not compute" "Danger, Will Robinson!""Oh, the pain...the pain!")
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To: Repeat Offender
Exactly. These House Dems think that 'we the people' are either stupid or we possess no memory.


14 posted on 04/03/2010 10:45:33 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Some interesting historical facts:

The Republican Party was formed by anti-slavery activists to combat the pro-slavery Democrats

The Ku Klux Klan was formed by radical Democrats who opposed equality for blacks.

On April 20, 1871 the Republican Congress enacted the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-Affiliated terrorist groups.

In 1935 Democrats defeated an Anti-Lynching Bill supported and put forward by Republicans.

The 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the “Klanbake convention”, a minority of delegates attempted to condemn the presence of the Klan but was rebuked by the Klan supporting Democrat Majority.



Wonder why Dems are so fearful of a grassroots organization that started due to their concerns over reckless government spending.

A world of difference from the actual to the Dem/Libs mind on what is really going on. what is really going on id the continued Dem desire to be IN CONTROL of EVERYTHING. Bamboozle the citizens and lull them into complacency.

Thanfull the Tea parties have awaken much of America.
15 posted on 04/03/2010 10:46:36 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Who would no better than the Demoncraps!

They invented the community organization group called the Ku Klus Klan.

They lynched Blacks and passed laws to keep the black children in separate but equal schools. When the Supreme Court ruled that separate schools were not proper, the Demons stood in the doorways and it took President Ike to make things equal.

16 posted on 04/03/2010 10:50:23 AM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The Democrats are scared sh*tless. They have to demonize the demonstrations because they cannot grant the demonstrators are legitimate. I hope this character is toast in November..


17 posted on 04/03/2010 10:53:39 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: nolongerademocrat
All that’s missing from the tea party are the robes and hoods

The KKK is the terrorist wing of the DEMOCRAT party.

We can name lots of RAT segregationists.

18 posted on 04/03/2010 10:58:11 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Deathcare, a solution desperately looking for a problem.)
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To: K-oneTexas

Thank you for a thoughtful and well expressed comment on facts. You could add that Republicans, led by Senator Everett Dirksen, made the 1964 Civil Rights legislation become a reality.

Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, “Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.” He continued, “The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!”

A cloture vote was taken. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the 20th century’s towering legislative achievements. Republican votes made cloture possible, in the face of Democratic Party opposition.


19 posted on 04/03/2010 11:03:24 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Excellent point.

With history being and already rewritten by the Left ... today’s students will never know this. Unless some ‘old geezers’ start telling them ... even when they don’t want to listen.


20 posted on 04/03/2010 11:05:12 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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