The Spirit Of Bi-Partisanship

The GOP is clearly interested in burying the hatchet...

...in President-Elect Obama's forehead.

A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.

"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."

Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

I'm glad to see that Obama's election has changed the face of the political spectrum so rapidly, and that the rancor and hatred of the campaign has been left behind.

Pro Tip, asshole. Accusing Obama of being a Marxist, Nazi-like dictator after what Bush did to this country for eight years just makes you look like a hypocritical moron. Also, you don't get to get away with statements like this:

"We can't be lulled into complacency," Broun said. "You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I'm not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is there is the potential of going down that road."

So of course I'm now waiting for one of these gun-owning patriots to settle with Obama in "the American way" before he can revoke the Second Amendment...which of course he's never said he's going to try to do.

But that won't stop people like Paul Broun from sounding "crazy and way off base".

And it won't stop somebody from deciding the threat to gun ownership is worth exacting the ultimate price from Obama, either.

God I look forward to four more years of this, if only to marginalize the entire GOP. Remember Rep. Paul Broun when the Democrats are attacked for not being "bi-partisan" enough.