Carnival Of Madness

The Democrats in the House are in full "urinate on self" mode over tomorrow's Birtherfest Tentherpalooza We Hate Obama Weekend Derangementstock Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project rally on the Washington D.C. Mall.

Me? Bring it on.

A top House Dem leadership aide has emailed a memo to Dem aides on the Hill and outside liberal groups warning they should brace for a turnout of up to two million people, suggesting Dems worry that if enough conservatives descend on the Mall it will amount to a major PR victory for the right.

The aide, Doug Thornell, warned in the memo that the dust-up over Joe “you lie” Wilson has been invigorating conservatives. “It looks like Saturday’s event is going to be a huge gathering, estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to 2 million people,” Thornell wrote in the memo, which was forwarded by a source.

In another sign of concern, the memo painstakingly detailed a range of turnout predictions from the event’s organizers, such as this one from tea party leaders promising a crowd of up to 1,000,000.

Adding to Dem concern is the fact that Beck recently claimed a major victory in the ouster of former green jobs adviser Van Jones.

The House leadership memo predicting huge turnout could have been written in hopes that it would leak and inflate expectations for turnout, anticipating that it will fall far short. But Dems on the Hill insist they’re genuinely worried about what tomorrow will bring.

I hope it is two million. I honestly, geniuinely hope that two million virulently angry full-on birther/tenther crackpots show up with their DON'T TREAD ON ME flags and "Tree of Liberty" posters and "OBAMA=HITLER" signs and a couple hundred thousand kids being used as political props, and I hope whatever God is out there sees fit to make sure there's a whole hell of a lot of TV cameras there broadcasting live.

Because America needs to see it. The unedited, 110% unrated Director's Cut Special Edition of Obama Derangement Syndrome in all its terrible, rancid, exquisite, pus-filled, switchblades in the alleyway glory, brothers and sisters. Please, please, please let it just turn into a massive angry mob with people screaming how the viewers at home should be mortally terrified about Obama providing affordable health care while holding swastikas and burning effigies. I want to see folks out there with their guns and whatnot (in Washington D.C. no less, that'll go over well) saying how Obama is the anti-Christ.

In short, I want America and the world to see exactly what two million racist, paranoid, birther nutjob assholes looks like. I want it replayed on every TV all weekend long. I want news crews to show up and interview random whackjobs and see just what Republican members of Congress and Glenn Beck have created out there and I want those Village Idiots to say "My God, what have we done?"

And I want America to really and truly see the ugly, dirty, horrific underside of this movement and say "I want no part of these assclowns."

So please, by all means, let's see what happens when you get two million rabid Obama-hating lunatics in the same place with Glenn Beck and some cameras. I relish the thought.

Let's do it, guys. Let's see your hand. I'm getting some popcorn this evening.

Crank the Pretty Hate Machine up, boys. It's prime time!

[UPDATE 6:05 PM] Both Brian Beutler and Dave Weigel say the 2 million number is BS and the Dems are trying to sandbag the event should "only" a few hundred thousand turn up.

I say a few hundred thousand rabid teabaggers around some cameras is still going to be a hell of a freak show, folks. And they're going to be the hard core ones.