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GOP Senate Candidate Compares Embryonic Stem Cell Research to Nazi Death Camps

"In March 2009, President Obama issued an executive order that removed President Bush’s limitations on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, ending the tragic politicization of the issue that existed under the former president." [...]

GOP Senate candidate, Gary Coleman [R-AR] attacked President Obama regarding this decision:

Embryonic stem cell research is taking the concept of taking a life and using it to conduct experiments so we can temporarily extend somebody else’s life. Let me tell you what I just described. I just described what the Nazis did to the Jews in the death camps of WWII.

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Source: Think Progress 
Science Magazine

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Our President is a worldwide joke.......

Rush Limbaugh, de facto leader of the Republican Party, indulges himself in his usual insane repartee on the same day that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I think that everybody is laughing. Our president is a worldwide joke. Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about and that is he doesn't deserve the award. Now that's hilarious, that I'm on the same side of something with the Taliban, and that we all are on the same side as the Taliban.

Sarah Palin Claims Her First Amendment Rights Were Violated

According to Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice President in 2008, her First Amendment rights were violated when the media claimed that Palin was engaged in negative campaigning.

If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.

Source: ABC News

FULL TEXT: Column by John L. Perry Suggesting the Possibility of a Military Coup in the U.S.

The original column was published earlier today by Newsmax, a conservative site where Perry is a columnist.

It remained on the site for a short time (whereby Political Talk saved it as a pdf file), and was then removed by Newsmax, which has since attempted to distance itself¹ from Perry. 

Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention

By: John L. Perry

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:

Sarah Palin on Barack Obama: I am just so fearful....

Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, regarding Obama and Bill Ayers at a rally in Clearwater, Florida on October 6, 2008:

  I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.

Sarah Palin, Republican, 1964-

Source: The Washington Post

Boehner Admits That President Obama is NOT a Socialist

BOEHNER: You add to that, this whole question of health care and the government option and government involvement, and Americans today are getting more news about what’s happening in our government than they’ve ever gotten before. And Americans are genuinely scared to death. Scared to death –

GREGORY: But Leader, don’t they get even more scared when you’ve got the head of the Republican Party sending out an e-mail to challenge the President and Democratic leaders for a socialist power-grab? I mean, is that appropriate conversation? Do you really think the President is a socialist?

BOEHNER: Listen, when you begin to look at how much they want to grow government, you can call it whatever you want, but the fact is —

GREGORY: What do you call it though?

BOEHNER: This is unsustainable. We’re broke.

GREGORY: That’s fine. Do you think the President is a socialist?

BOEHNER: No!

GREGORY: Okay. Because the head of the Republican Party is calling him that.

BOEHNER: Listen, I didn’t call him that, and I’m not going to call him that.

Boehner did call Obama's actions "socialist" in a fear mongering speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2009.

House Minority Leader, John A. Boehner, Republican, 1949-

Source: Video of Boehner's  appearance on Meet the Press, September 20, 2009

Wally Herger Calls Self-Described "Right Wing Terrorist" a "Great American"

 
Congressman Wally Herger | Republican - CA

At a town hall meeting on August 18 in Redding, California , Rep. Walter William Herger, Jr., speaking of healthcare reform and President Obama, intimated that the President, and/or his policies, are a threat to Democracy. [where was this loser when Bush 43 threw the Constitution in the toilet?]

 Our democracy has never been threatened as much as it is today.

And in another example of the craziness promoted by the far right, including people such as Wally Herger, at the same town hall, and in response to a man who said “I am a proud right wing terrorist.”, Herger had this to say:

 Amen, God bless you. There is a great American.

Your tax dollars at work.

Source: Mt. Shasta News
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

Barney Frank on Arguing With Dining Room Tables

Congressman Barney Frank | Democrat

At a townhall meeting this past week, Rep. Barney Frank, had a revealing exchange with a woman in the crowd. The woman, representative of the kind of far right-wing craziness we've been subjected to recently, asked a question when called upon.

Woman in crowd, carrying a picture of President Obama defaced to make him look like Hitler:

Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly  supported this policy, why are you supporting it?

Barney Frank responds thusly:

On what planet do you spend most of your time? As you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase healthcare to the Nazis, my answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the first amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.

Madam, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

View the video of the incident.

Image Source: Wikipedia
Quotation transcribed by Political Talk directly from the video.

John Boehner calls President Obama's Actions Socialist

Well, the stimulus, the omnibus, the budget — it’s all one big

down payment on a new American socialist experiment. … All of these bills seek to replace our economic freedom with the whims and mandates of politicians and bureaucrats.

House Minority Leader, John A. Boehner, Republican, 1949-

Source: Video of Boehner's speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2009:

Rush Limbaugh, Birther, on Barack Obama's Birth

Rush Limbaugh | Republican

Referring to Barack Obama's birth, Limbaugh made this comment on the  August 21 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

Hawaii actually morphed into Kenya one day in 1961.

Audio available here.
H/T Media Matters