Republicans plan McCarthyite persecutions

[Joanne98]

From The Hill

In June, I warned in my column in The Hill that if the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives, there would be a wave McCarthyite abuses of Congressional committees through abuse of subpoenas and abuse of the Congressional investigative process.
There are now growing public reports of the threats and abuses I warned about in June, including a new story in Politico today.

The Republicans are making a huge political mistake that will rally the Democratic base, offend political independents and backfire against them in November.

This is the arrogance of power by those who do not have power, who are so consumedby the politics of persecution and character assassination and so dependent on the support of extremist political forces that they are bragging about the abuses of power they will pursue if they get said power.

The Republican plan is to abuse the power of multiple Congressional committees, abuse the power and the process of subpoena, by hiring a fleet of partisan Republican lawyers and partisan Republican staff at taxpayer expense to pursue a politics of vendetta and persecution.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Republicans-plan-McCarthyi-by-Brent-Budowsky-100828-43.html

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Turn around is fair play.

After all, when our party took control in 2006 we immediately set out to bring the war criminals in the white house to heel. If I recall correctly we did manage to issue one or two actual subpoenas, all of which were promptly ignored.

This won't hurt them in November of 2010. November of 2012 might be a different story.

[bemildred]

2. Bring it.

I look forward to making these assholes lives miserable and putting some of them in jail.

[JohnWxy]

3. important post. Very sobering stuff. tried to recommend but was past 24 hrs.

The Republicans Show a Frightening Facility for the Techniques of Totalitarianism


from his article in The Hill:

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/116157-republicans-plan-mccarthyite-persecutions

Remember the abuses of power of Republicans in Congress when they launched bogus attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton during the Clinton presidency, culminating in a de facto attempted coup d’état through an abuse of process that culminated in an attempt to impeach President Clinton while he was creating jobs and balancing the budget?


Make no mistake, the party of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy is planning a new era of Nixonian and McCarthyite abuses to repeat the politics of persecution it attempted against the Clintons when Republicans had control of Congress.


Make no mistake, Republicans plan a vendetta and politics of persecution and abuse of power against President Obama.


Make no mistake, they plan a vendetta and politics of persecution and abuse of power against the White House staff.