Newt Gingrich's Careless Whispers Stoke Anarchy

Yay. People Like Me Again!

The stupid is on a snowball roll which should make for a doozy of a 2012 election year when that snow fancies itself a man and tries to run the country. The meltdown will be fantastically funny; it will take just that type of circus to get the Republicans back to a more sensible framework of pushing real ideas, respecting those who disagree, and being a true alternative to those of us who don't buy into the whole Democratic Party agenda.  Some of us are too smart to cast our lot with the vapid (Palin), the hypocrites (Newt) and assorted other liars (Limbaugh), knaves and thieves.

And what to do with the stirred up crowds and individuals who can never find a patriotic instinct worthy of following? Like... what do you do with a man who decides to blow up 36 post offices?

A man accused of dropping more than 30 explosive devices into mailboxes and other locations across east Texas did so out of anger toward the government and was acting alone, federal authorities said Thursday.

Larry Eugene North was indicted Wednesday on charges of possessing an illegal firearm or destructive device. Authorities said they would evaluate whether to pursue more charges.

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All this manufactured anger, built on lies, and spread by people like Newt Gingrich and Beck, trickles down to the fertile minds of the stable and unstable alike.

When Gingrich eventually got to the podium, he delivered a self-assured address peppered with historical allusions. Democrats in Washington, he said, had put together a "perfect unrepresentative left-wing machine dedicated to a secular socialist future."

Mr. Obama is "the most radical president in American history," Gingrich said. "He has said, 'I run a machine, I own Washington, and there is nothing you can do about it.'"

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Seems like all the Republicans are doing these days is encouraging resentment on a mass scale, and doing so by misrepresenting Obama's intentions and accomplishments. This from a party that had control of the government in recent times, and accomplished nearly nothing. How quickly people forget what Republicans did not accomplish when in power, though the promises were all the same.

You save the country from economic collapse. You pass some type of healthcare reform. You save a couple of banks and auto companies from collapse. You pull troops out of Iraq and save some lives. You sign a far reaching but limited arms agreement with Russia. You reform the education loan market by redirecting government funds from middlemen bankers to students. You pass a tax cut. You send tons of money down to the states to help support the education and jobs of local people.

And all some Republicans can muster is talk of tax cuts and socialists. They can knock the bank bailouts and health care initiatives while heralding the small businessman, the very same man who must go to banks to finance his dream, and who is burdened under ever rising health insurance costs.

Our repeated refrain... nonsense to all that. We can hardly take advice from Gingrich, who spent his entire early career on the government payroll, great healthcare and all.