Dems show us the way
Thank merciful heavens for the New Civility — a cleansing Democrat tide of reason and calm, respectful discourse, scouring away all those ugly Rethugnicans and their frequent resort to rhetoric so extreme as to render their words very nearly meaningless. May its soothing balm wash over us all, thus raising the level of our coarsened political dialogue at last. Example 1, back in December:
“We know we won in part because they got so nasty and unlikable,” said Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts.
Example 2, today:
There’s no other way around it: When you accuse someone of perpetrating “ethnic cleansing” in any way, shape or form, you are accusing them of genocide.
Genocide. Let that word work its way around your mind for a moment. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Think about that. And then watch the most grotesque public statement made by any elected official in the United States in the last 100 years.
No, I’m not kidding or reaching for the hyperbole. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) in the video below accuses the Bush administration of perpetrating “ethnic cleansing by hurricane” in Louisana after Katrina, in order to make Louisiana more Republican.
Bold mine. Why, I’m…I’m…I’m overwhelmed by the politesse. Looks like those hideous Rethugnicans are so repellent that Barney and his gentlemanly cohorts have been forced to conclude that even the New Civility can’t be effectively applied to them. I apologize on their behalf for the RightwingNaziRethugnicans’ seemingly uncontrollable boorishness, Barney. May your shining example be a light to us all.
Update! Looks like Gentleman Barn’ has been pushing this idea for a good while now. Check the update at HA, too.
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What a vile, vile thing to call this ethnic cleansing.
Besides, I thought 'ethnic cleansing' was when Madame Barney made his Italian rent-boys shower before proffering them to his customers.
This kind of hate speech poisons the hearts and minds of black people--and for raw political effect. We've already fed our black brothers enough horseshit to kill a lesser race. First we treated them as less than human. Then we treated them as less than American. Now we've "fixed" that by telling them they are hyphenated Americans. As far as I'm concerned, that's just another way to say 'You're only a partial American.
We nearly killed the black family with welfarism and the Liberal Catechism: "If it feels good, do it!". Drugs, AIDS, fatherless children all flowed from that. Now we even hear that a black man is not authentic unless he's a criminal. Hell, we even want to steal Christmas from the black man and give him that Commie Segregationist Kwanzaa crap instead.
Barney Frank is feeding black people poison. It is a lie, a God-damned lie, and if he had any shame whatsoever he would apologize today. Not to Bush--to black Americans. Prick.
Thing is, to call Bush an ethnic-cleanser only minimizes the crimes of the Slobos and Mugabes of the world. Civil Rights must have suceeded beyond our wildest dreams if you think Bush is a vicious racist bigot. That only proves you've never even seen one.