"Both sides have overheated rhetoric and need to dial it down"

[grantcart]

Yep this is the cable news offering of fresh cowpie for the American people.

While the cable networks have been turning up the heat and giving unfettered access to a radical rightist/nativist movement that has gotten increasingly more beligerent and hostile the left has been trying to focus on solving problems.

And it is easily proven.

There are radical rightwingers who are providing primary challenges to standing Republicans and none are most obvious than the primary challenge to Senator McCain whose reelection is no longer considered a sure thing and in a low turnout primary could lose his seat.

The standard bearer who has been parroting every right wing talking point is now being challenged for not being radical enough. When has this ever happened before.

Senator Bennett (my distant cousin) is facing a primary challenge in Utah

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20347.html

Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) is not entangled in scandal, he’s never shown a hint of vulnerability and there’s no Democrat on the horizon who’s poised to knock him out of his Senate seat.

Nevertheless, he could be in jeopardy in 2010.

Bennett’s problem is the Republican primary. State Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who won election to a third term in November with 70 percent of the vote, told POLITICO in an interview that he’s leaning toward challenging Bennett and may make an announcement as soon as this week. Many Utah Republican insiders say they expect Shurtleff to take the plunge — and if he does, Bennett could find himself in a tough race.

“It’s a very real challenge to Bennett,” said LaVarr Webb, a longtime state GOP strategist. “He could be in real trouble.”

And Shurtleff isn’t the only prospective Republican challenger. Former Juab County Attorney David Leavitt — the brother of former Utah governor and Bush administration Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt — and Mike Lee, a former legal counsel to Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman, have also been mentioned as possible candidates.

Because the primary goes through a convention process and they don't have to worry about a Democratic Party challenge they are going to take him out. But these radical right challenges in the Republican Party are having an impact on other Senators like Snowe that have become completely intimidated by America's new campaign of hate and irrationality.


The Republican Party is going through a psychotic breakdown of epic proportions. This is a one sided meltdown and Cable news shows are giving kerosene to a pyromaniac. All of you pundits who want to change the tone stop giving access to the air waves to the most batshit crazy person in the crowd. Do research, have factual based analysis and leave us the hell out of it, we have serious work to do.

[JuniperLea]

1. Projection is all they have left...

Their death throes are proving quite amuzing... pardon my schadenfreude .

[grantcart]

8. Your pardoned lol

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Republicans are now beginning to show their true colors

basically thugs

[HillbillyBob]

4. Yup, AfAmerican/glbt/immigrant folks have been targeted for years

and it was ok for us to be beaten and murdered by the radicals.
Now that they are turning their loving attentions on congress and other citizens its a big deal.

Its not as if some of us have been saying these brownshirts are gonna cause some real trouble one day we were told to sit down and be quiet and quit stirring the pot or just you crazy.

This bullshit goes back at least to the 1920s, but the last round really started in the 70s and they kept out sort of sight until we get a mixed race president. Pres Os race means very little to me personally, my bitch is the corporate bribery err campaign donations and the corpses take over over the last 30 yrs have been disturbing to those of us who have been snooping and /or paying attention.
We warned that W would be about the last straw again I was told to stfu and harassed by 'law enforcement' when I spoke out about the theft of the 2000 election. Now we have economy going in the shitter and they are really out there. We moved to a place in the woods..not far enough to suit me, then again the wilds of Canada or Alaska might not be.
Robert A Heinlien has written about the religious hysteria and the possible break up of the US theocratic units or complete take over by the religious nuts in parable for years starting seems to me in the late 60s early 70s. I have read a lot of his stuff, but a lot of his writing the dates of the action taking place is arbitrary.

[nxylas]

3. Let them eat their own

I didn't think the Tea Party would actually be stupid enough to siphon of votes from the (other) Republicans, but then Frankenstein's Creature destroyed his creator....

[elehhhhna]

5. my bleedingheartliberal retort: UP YOURS!

[rocktivity]

6. I had the strangest feeling that it was a Republican who said this...

NOT.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[pscot]

7. Republicans call us

socialist, nazi, amerka hating traitors; and we call them the party of no. By golly, Wolf and Brian and David are right. It's exactly the same.

[grantcart]

9. well some of us capitalize it to NO

[TomCADem]

10. False Equivalency Strikes Again! Worse, it justifies the actions of the RW nuts...

By pushing the meme of false equivalency, the right wing nuts buy even more guns in preparation for a violent show down with an imaginary foe.

[grantcart]

11. on the other hand . . . .

[Rex]

12. Funny, I don't remember Repuke EVER dialing back on ANYTHING.

Fuck the cable news channels, complicit in criminal activity with Bush/Cheney NOW they want to move on and blame both parties - get back to business as usual.

[malaise]

13. I don't get the both sides BS

What have I missed? Only one side is using overheated rhetoric.

[Rex]

14. It is the Mainstream Medias attempt to control the situation by making up

lies about the Democratic Party. They've been doing it since Reagan did away with the Fairness Doctrine.