FRANKENSTEIN

There are government sponsored death panels installed due to recent health care legislation.

If you do not procure health insurance you are going to jail.

Every American's bill for health insurance will go up $2,000 a year immediately due to the new health care legislation.

The IRS is hiring 16,000 new agents to ensure that everyone has health insurance. http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/201003310001

Everybody's taxes have gone up as a result of actions taken by the Obama Administration.

The new Democratic financial reforms will guarantee that all of Wall Street will be bailed out in case of failure forever with tax payer's dollars.

All financial stimulus legislation was put in place to make sure Wall Street would never fail again.  None of the stimulus package produced jobs for middle class Americans.

These are only some of the talking points of the repubs over the last couple years. Just a few of them. Where did they come from?

From Frank Luntz that is who. Check out these links:

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/40994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhgTxNNzCUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvhZ62ok9MQ

Rachel Maddow recently had a sign behind her that said: LET THEM EAT FAKE. hahahah.

I think this all has to do with Luntz who is this pudgy conservative fuck whom I first met on Fox in 2000. By meet, I mean I watched him demonstrating his polling results and his electrical experimentation on live audiences with wires implanted in their heads and his penchant for 'framing the issue'.

But what has happened, as everyone who takes an interest in this subject knows,  is that there is less framing and more just plain lying going on out there now.

Luntz figures out what phrases really fry the brains of these selected lab rats and then sends out memos, for fees of course, indicating which words are best to use. That is why you saw all those repubs in my Mediamatters link (supra) espouse the same phrases; the exact wording at different times and places. And we have been hearing these talking points from Luntz for a decade.

As my links demonstrate, McConnell and Chambliss met with the biggest bank dickheads in the country promising to stop all financial reform in return for campaign contributions (bribes) and then both of them go out into the world and begin to spout the lies that were contained in the Luntz memos.  And Boner and the other sycophants get their running orders and do likewise. 

What are the consequences? Without getting into these silly talking point lies that simply give the power to the repubs, I bring up these points to demonstrate that words have consequences:

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A state senator is coming under fire for comments apparently supporting militias, but the senator said his words have been taken out of context.

Gubernatorial candidate and State Senator Randy Brogdon claimed he never said the word "militia" when he was quoted by the Associated Press as saying "the second amendment deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal government."

"I'm talking about protecting ourselves. As governor of this state, I will do everything within our constitutional authority to keep Congress within our constitutional authority," Brogdon said.  Late Tuesday afternoon, the State Republican Party said it will not support any group that talks of forming a militia.  http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12304603

Brogdon is the leading candidate for governor in Oklahoma. He along with his brother, is in the Oklahoma legislature and of course, he is a republican. Anyone speaking this incendiary and traitorous talk has to be a republican or in some strange right ring cabal.

We live in a constitutional republic. I was going to do a long memo on this subject but I am not up to it. The point here is that a governor of a state, any state cannot decide what is constitutional and what is not constitutional.

The President of the United States and Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States decide what is constitutional with the third branch of government given the ultimate decision on that point. Why the third branch gets the final say is not in the Constitution at all but that is another subject altogether. The fact is that by custom, the Supreme Court decides ultimate constitutional issues. And in its place and stead appellate courts and even district court judges make pronouncements from time to time that enjoin states and federal officials from acting under certain legislation  that they have deemed unconstitutional.

Now Brogdon did say these things that are quoted above  and he said them on MSNBC on the Matthews show, this week. I saw him do it. He claims he never used the word militia, he claims that his statements were taken out of context. Same old, same old. He claimed over and over again that he, as governor of Oklahoma would never allow the Federal Government to attempt to execute unconstitutional laws within the boundaries his state.

Therefore only he, as governor would know what is constitutional and what is not constitutional.

He walks back on the militia language saying that his militia would only be a back -up militia to aid the Oklahoma government to help out in the case of disasters and such.This right after he denied even using the word militia.

In previous blogs I have demonstrated that other people in the private sphere who run or advise militias watch their language. They will not 'fire the first shot'. They are 'only there to defend'. And we all know the FBI and Homeland Security are all over this stuff.

Beck has become particularly comical in his demonstration of 'non-violence'.

Not to be outdone by his Fox friend Sarah Palin, Fox's resident "rodeo clown" Glenn Beck spent the same day hosting his "day-long American Revival for 8,000 die-hard fanatics." There, Beck touted his "100-year plan" for the nation, as well as a "budget" for America devised by experts he promised to roll out in the weeks to come, complete with tax reductions down to a rate of 12 percent.

To combat all of those pesky accusations that the right-wing media has been inciting the fringe to violence, Beck made sure to add this jewel into his monologue:

"Get God on your side, and then pick up a hammer...with non-violence, take your hammer and POUND that truth every day and everything that doesn't fit, toss it out! We have the truth. ... [W]ith non-violence, be the anvil of truth every single day!"

Well. That's reassuring.

Beck wept several times during the seven-hour long revival -- no doubt a sign of the genuine "love" and "fear" he has for this country. The most notable line from the revival was rampant fear-mongering right out of his radio and TV playbook: "If we don't face the truth right now, we'll be dead in five years -- this country can't survive." As a result, he declared that he is "stockpiling food." You should do the same http://mediamatters.org/columns/201004020059

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3No

I have noted before that the comic Dom Irrera has this routine where he attacks you or your mother or anything close to you in the most obscene manner and then says:

But I do not mean this in a bad way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URU33qxPtPU

Like: you are the dumbest fuck I have ever met under any circumstances and you would sell your mother for a ten dollar lunch and....but I do not mean that in a bad way.

So the way you walk back on violent rhetoric is simply to add the words: but of course I am against violence.

It is just that people like beckerhead use this tool so ineptly and so transparently that their walk back is meaningless. I mean how do you maintain nonviolence after you have pummeled everyone and everything in your path with a hammer?

Mike Vanderboegh, in less than four days will be leading his armed militia along the Potomac and was the man who called for all good militia men to bash the offices of Democrats who voted for health care reform. He chose bricks over hammers but then he continually states that he will never order his militia to fire the first shot.  Evidently it was all right to throw the first brick.

Randy Brogman is the current leader in the race for governor of Oklahoma and says that he never uses the word militia while he uses the word militia and calls for armed insurrection against unconstitutional actions taken by the Federal Government.

Words have consequences; at least that is what I was taught.

And in the midst of these new right wing attacks upon our nation I found this gem:

DENVER -- The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a group seeking to allow students with concealed gun permits to carry their weapons on campus.

Gun rights organization Students for Concealed Carry on Campus argued that a 1994 University of Colorado policy banning concealed weapons from its campus violates state gun laws, particularly the Concealed Carry Act of 2003. Thursday's ruling revives a lawsuit that a judge tossed out.

Attorney Jim Manley had argued that state law prohibits local governments from adopting laws limiting concealed carry rights. In a statement, Manley says the court vindicated the constitutional protection for the right to keep and bear arms.

CU officials say they're considering an appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/15/university-of-colorado-co_0_n_539239.html

With all of the shootings that have taken place at our colleges and universities over the last decade; this is the last thing we need. A license for students to carry concealed weapons on campus.

And the upshot is that the constitutionally empowered branch of government has opened up the possibility that individuals who seek the violent overthrow of our government; like beck and Vanderboegh and Brogdon are now free to arm themselves without criminal sanctions.

They have their talking points, they have their followers and they have their guns.

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Oh I just wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate Andrea Mitchell on this, her 97th birthday.