Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Laugh Out Loud Wingnuttiness!

WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.

"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may _ may not, I hope not _ but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."

... the rest after the click.

My Comment: Let me see if I got this straight. This, from the party that supported warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, attempted to cancel Habeas Corpus and worked to eliminate the provisions of Posse Comitatus ... the party that politicized the Justice Department and fired Federal District Attorneys because they wouldn't prosecute bogus, trumped up "crimes" against the administration's political "enemies" at election time. And suddenly they're worried about the misuse of government powers?

There's a term for it in psychology. It's called projection.

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