It didn't take long for the drumbeat to begin.
If you oppose ObamaCare, you're a racist or a bigot.
If you oppose Obama, you're a racist or a bigot.
If someone 500 miles away acts badly, and you don't swear on a stack of Bibles that you'll disavow your principles for life, you're a racist.
If you're a Republican, you are a Neanderthal racist/bigot/mouthbreather, and it's high time we silenced you and yours.
Bob Herbert leads the invective charge in the Yew Nork Times. Channel surfing and pausing at MSNBC, two earnest-looking young journalists looking all worried about all those racists and anti-Semites in the crowds. At least they had a viewer for that ten seconds of their day. Next.
The pressure begins in earnest, and will only ratchet up.
Problem is, Herbert has his history backwards--the Republican Party was founded in great part for the cause of the elimination of slavery. The 'Solid South' was solidly Democrat, solidly racist and Jim Crow, until Republicans stepped up to vote for the civil rights measures of the 1960's.
But then again, the Yew Nork Times never let the facts get in the way of their view of the world...
And while this is written, the Senate debate drones on. The Republicans quietly point out that the costs are unsustainable, and Tom Coburn describes his life as a physician treating Medicaid patients, unable to find a specialist to whom he can refer his high-risk patients, because the cost of treating them far outstrips the compensation. All of it quiet, dignified, patient. Democrat Barabara Mikulski then launches into an angry feminist rant. Back to Judd Gregg, followed by another Democrat Senator who accuses him of lying. On it goes.
Of course, the Republicans are racist and hysterical. But it's a good exercise, because it creates a record: on this day, this was said by this Senator. Today could come back to haunt someone.
Moh' latuh, while it's still possible to speak.
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