Surprise. Surprise. Turns out that – once again – Dick Cheney is a liar. After months of claiming the CIA has documents “proving” torture works, the release of said documents say the exact opposite. From the article:

Strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims that the ‘enhanced interrogation’ program run by the CIA provided valuable information. In fact, throughout both documents, many passages — though several are incomplete and circumstantial, actually suggest the opposite of Cheney’s contention: that non-abusive techniques actually helped elicit some of the most important information the documents cite in defending the value of the CIA’s interrogations.

“Yes, Dems are going to deny health care to anyone registered as a Republican. The original plan was to harvest their organs. However, that plan had to be scrapped after it was discovered that their brains weren’t any good and their hearts were completely gone!”

– Commenter Steve, tongue fully in cheek

Seriously, check this out. It’s a survey being passed out to Republicans. One, to scare them into pushing against reform. Two, to solicit donations to the RNC. Because, you know, it isn’t worth scaring American citizens to a Rethug if you can’t possibly make a buck off of it.

That question is the best part. Apparently it is meant to scare Republicans into thinking that they might not be allowed to participate into a public health care plan.

You know, the plan they call “socialist”. The plan they shout down town hall meetings to protest against. The ones they show up with assault weapons because they want to silence advocates for such a plan. The public option they’d like to kill the President over.

The RNC is so concerned about this that they want to warn their constituents by filling their heads with outright lies.

The height of hypocrisy here, of course, is that why the hell would Republicans be worried about mythically being left out of a system they swear up and down they won’t participate in? It’s like sending me a memo letting me know that I’ll probably not be allowed to join the Klan. Good! I didn’t want anything to do with Kluckers anyway!

Here’s the whole damned survey…

…followed by the begging for money section:

Being against health care reform isn’t enough for terrorist sympathizer Randall Terry. Putting on racist political theater while railing against health care is more his speed.

What a piece of shit.

This treads into dangerous, but not necessarily erroneous, ground. This article compares the GOP’s strategy of opposing the President on health care – and everything else – to that of the Nazi “Big Lie”.

So yes, the GOP are acting like Nazis, without necessarily being Nazis. Got it?

They sure don’t. They’ve called the President every political label in the book and have him being born in Kenya, Indonesia, and probably the Moon for all I know. Basically, it’s a kitchen sink strategy.

They’ve called Democrats murderers for wanting to enforce living will policies even their blowhards have supported.

As for the generic GOP hatemonger at a town brawl? Odious people backing odious insurance companies.

Rep. John Dingell compares them to the KKK.

Rep. James Clyburn says they are the same ilk as our nation’s opponents to civil rights legislation:

“I have seen this kind of hate before. I have seen this discussion before….I have seen snarling dogs going after people who were trying to peacefully assemble. I have seen the eyes of people who were being spat upon.

“This is all about activity trying to deny the establishment of a civil right. And I do believe that health care for all is — a civil right.”

He went on to say the he had “no question” that some of this was racially motivated hate.

Rep. Jerry Nadler from NY calls the political theater of the GOP stalwarts as akin to using “fascist tactics”.

So, yeah, call it as you see it, but make sure the characterization does not turn into caricature.

More on the hypocrisy of angry, blowhard, bigoted old people collecting Medicare who are against socialized health care, which, unfortunately, is not even part of the health care reform legislation currently under discussion.

“Ridge…was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.”

This is EXACTLY why Republicans lying like snakes when it comes to being patriotic Americans.

A TRUE patriot would NEVER have allowed politics to trump national security. A TRUE patriot would save his politics for his one vote and not use it to help rig an election to keep a warmonger in power.

Way to be a patriot Ridge. Too bad you’re FIVE YEARS TOO LATE!

Random thought from Reddit:

By denying the poorest Americans affordable Healthcare, the Republicans have become the Death Panel they vehemently admonish.

– submitted by Yeeaaaarrrgh

Also from Reddit:

“Remember when you could get arrested just for wearing a T-shirt critical of the president to an event where he would appear?”

– submitted by conyat2

There are stories of Rethug asshats carrying assault rifles to Obama town halls and speeches and while, yes, most of them are obeying the letter of the law, shouldn’t you be asked to be a responsible adult and go the hell away by the police/FBI/Secret Service/voices in your head?

HAVING rights means being smart enough to know WHY you have them and HOW to be worthy of them.

Something lost on the racist GOP mobs of late.

Taken with the appropriate level of tongue-in-cheek:

Barack Hussein Obama, natural born Kenyan socialist, usurper of the American presidency and “Trojan Horse of Islam,” possessed of a “deep seated hatred of white people” and with the aid of his media “brownshirts,” is embarking on a Nazi-styled eugenics campaign to grant “death panels” the authority to “pull the plug on grandma” and “redistribute the wealth” otherwise required to sustain her “unproductive” life as “reparations”. Failure to halt his “government takeover” — with assault rifles if necessary — will lead inexorably to future generations having to “wait in line for, I dunno, toilet paper.”