The Plan Is Official

The "Where's Obama's real birth certificate?!?!?" bill in Congress has gained more House Republican co-sponsors.

Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), who has introduced a bill that would require future presidential candidates to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, has collected four more co-sponsors — Reps. John R. Carter, John Culberson and Randy Neugebauer, all Republicans from Texas, and Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.). Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) became the first co-sponsor last month.

Via WorldNetDaily’s Andrea Shea King, who transcribes a stunning interview Posey gave her on her Internet radio show. Posey, who referred to the story as the “eligibility dilemma” and said King brought it to his attention, outright accused the president of hiding something: “The only people that I know who are afraid to take drug tests are the people who use drugs.” He also admitted speaking with “high-ranking members of our judiciary committee” about the chances of Obama “being removed from office,” but said there was “zero chance” of success there.

I sound like a broken record, but it's worth repeating: The GOP Plan Is To Destroy Obama. If the media and the GOP can bamboozle millions of Americans into thinking Saddam Hussein caused 9/11, they are counting on the same ignorance, racism, and hatred to delegitimize and dehumanize the current occupant of the White House.

He's not a real American. The onus is on him to prove he's one of us, say the Birthers. They will not stop until he is destroyed, politically, figuratively, or literally.

Behind everyone asking if our President is even a citizen, is a dark force asking "Will anyone rid us of this meddlesome Obama?" People are listening to that shrill dog whistle, people like Orly Taitz.

There’s a term some use for people like Taitz, and she doesn’t like it. It’s “birther”—or, if you want to be really mean, “birfer.” (The controversy was born on the Internet, so naturally the Internet gave it a goofy name.) While rumors about Obama’s background and citizenship simmered throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, after Election Day, those rumors coalesced into a near-religion for a group of true believers. To Taitz and the unknown number of people who agree with her, Barack Obama isn’t president and probably wasn’t even born in the U.S. Taitz, a Laguna Niguel dentist with a law degree from an online academy, has been awarded a few creative variations on the birther term: “The Queen Bee of Birferstan” is probably the best.

“That’s demeaning,” Taitz says. “I don’t call anybody names.”

This isn’t quite true. She calls Obama a “usurper” and an “arrogant jerk from Africa and Indonesia.” She called a judge an “idiot.” And she calls anyone who stands in her way an “Obama thug.” Taitz has built a sizable following on her blog; in the comments for each post at orlytaitzesq.com, you can read a few more names for people whom Taitz doesn’t like: “traitors,” “Muslims,” “terrorists.”

The destruction of our President has become a cottage industry on the extreme right, the same folks who think that abortion doctors and Holocaust Museum security guards are fair game in a shooting war. Look at Scott Roeder. Look at James Von Brunn. Ask yourself why your elected Representatives in Congress are wasting America's time with this nonsense. There's a sick plan at work here. The Birthers are working to dehumanize and destroy Barack Obama, just like white supremacists and holocaust deniers have to African-Americans and Jews.

To millions of Americans, and to some of our own elected national officials, the President of the United States of America is The Enemy. If you create a climate of mistrust and hatred vile enough, somebody will step into American history's most infamous club.

And now, we have Republicans in the House joining these people in their crusade.

Think about that.