The so-called “BLUE DOGS” are not Democrats. They are Republicans who came into the Democratic party for the RIDE! They are a nothing but a bunch of shysters, charlatans, interlopers and swindlers from EVIL Republican constituencies masquerading as Democrats.

Republicans have never won anything without intimidation and fear-mongering. They are the remnants of the despicable racist white southerners who can only win by brandishing guns and spewing deluded threats and hatred. The viciousness of the “goonery” being unleashed by Republicans is as despicable as it is incredible.

To hell with these animals!

Sarah Robinson Notes: It only takes a small handful of thugs to terrorize people into giving up their civil rights, abandoning democracy and doing what they’re told, just so they can keep their jobs, windows and families intact…..a town dominated by the Mob, a street gang, the KKK, or a corrupt sheriff. The main imperative in life becomes staying off the goons’ radar. All the enforcers need to do is make an horrific example out of one or two troublemakers every now and then — and the resulting fear will keep everybody else quietly in line. Conservatives have tried to subdue other Americans this way for centuries, so there’s nothing new going on here. And this is the way they’ve always done it: they used race (and yes, the birthers and anti-health care rioters are, at root, all about race) and economic calamity to whip up a posse of terrified, well-armed vigilantes, and then turned them loose on society to “enforce order.” [ READ MORE ]

Getting Republicans to support health-care reform is a lost cause, says Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift. “It is Time to Get in the Ring.” “Obama has exhausted his natural instinct to compromise.” “Now’s the time to fight for health-care reform,” “Obama supporters are wondering whether he can take a punch.” “If they’re to see what he’s made of, Obama has to first get in the ring, forget the niceties and fight,” adds Ms. Clift.

New York Times Op-ED columnist Frank Rich notes:

For all the talk of Obama’s declining poll numbers this summer, he towers over his opponents. In last week’s Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, only 21 percent approve of how Republicans in Congress are handling health care reform (as opposed to the president’s 41 percent). Should Obama fail to deliver serious reform because his administration treats the pharmaceutical and insurance industries as deferentially as it has the banks, that would be shameful. Should he fail because he in any way catered to a decimated opposition party that has sunk and shrunk to its craziest common denominator, that would be ludicrous.

The G.O.P., whose ranks have now dwindled largely to whites in Dixie and the less-populated West, is not even a paper tiger — it’s a paper muskrat. James Carville is correct when he says that if Republicans actually carried out their filibuster threats on health care, it would be a political bonanza for the Democrats.

In last year’s campaign debates, Obama liked to cite his unlikely Senate friendship with Tom Coburn, of all people, as proof that he could work with his adversaries. If the president insists that enemies like this are his friends — and that the nuts they represent can be placated by reason — he will waste his opportunity to effect real change and have no one to blame but himself. [ READ MORE ]

Grassley’s Bipartisanship FARCE

Well Done Barney For Kicking a Republican ‘Dining Table’

Limbaugh’s Juvenile Joke About Barney Frank

Right-Wing Militias Out of Control

Analyzing Obama’s Leadership

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