The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Where is the Tea Party on this one?

    By Gregor Zap on Sun, 10/24/2010 - 1:12am |

    This is an article from Salon.com related to the detention of the reporter in Alaska at the behest of the GOP senatorial candidate, Joe Miller.  I thought the Tea Party was against fascism?  I thought they were against communists?  Well, okay, handcuffing someone to a chair is not part of communist ideals, but it comports very well with the practices of the former Soviet Union, an allegedly communist regime.  Personally, it was more of what you get when you only have one party in control. 

    http://www.salon.com/print.html?URL=/opinion/greenwald/2010/10/19/miller

    I'm just sayin'.  What isn't there more noise about this?  Is it because Joe Miller has privitized government, which does comport with the national GOP ideals?

    Comments

    Simply put, IOKIYAR.

    When your notion of politics is a no-holds-barred street fight, there are no rules. And it's pretty difficult to embrace anything like consistency of message or honorable defense of policies and ideas when recent history shows them all to be such miserable failures. It becomes necessary to instead rely upon fear-mongering, bullying, and cash - lots and lots of cash.


    by SleepinJeezus on Sun, 10/24/2010 - 9:37am

    I have to agree with Sleepin on this one.

    People like Miller do not believe in 'rules' as such. Hell, Miller does not even believe in democracy since he wishes to take away the people's Constitutional Right to vote in Senate elections.

    Hitler used democracy, all the while chastising democracy as a non workable model for government.

    In the end of course, Miller, well he believes in Miller and that is about it.


    by Richard Day on Sun, 10/24/2010 - 5:32pm