enough already! I can't take hearing about every last republican fart and burp. good grief, TPM, I'm begging you for mercy

Man, she's ugly.

Yeah, this is the hot news of the day, the money story!

Another Village Idiot.

Why is she wearing an athletic mouthpiece?

I remember when she lost the governor's race (the first time I think). She filed a bogus challenge that was full of lies and errors trying to claim the election had been stolen. She lost and earned the name "Ellen Sourgrapes" later there was a scandal she was involved in. i'll have to Google to see what it was...

Republicans really do support corporate fascism. The entire media in this country is corporate(including PBS) and they make it harder to pass legislation that the majority want. It's not a matter of the Democrats being tough; it's matter of more regular folks getting engaged in the political process.

Even our progressive websites are mostly corporately funded. Hence the relentless Obama bashing and refusal to give him a second to clean anything up. Out of Afghanistan yesterday, they say.

and further more:
the ideals of the Hitler era Germany sought to dehumanize those of particular racial and social standing - namely through racial denigration, stereotyping, etc. Gosh - that should so much like the practices being employed by a certain group of birthers, tea partiers, and other right wing fringe folks.

This just in -- Obama Hitler Obama Fascism Obama Socialism Obama Pol Pot Obama Stalin Obama Destruction of America!

See how it works?

look @ her ugly mug--enough said. Seriously.

What is it with Maryland Repubs? Steele & Sauerbrey make a great couple.

During the Bush years, it seem as if all the political-level Administration officials were wingnuts, good mainly at avoiding exposure. Sauerbrey has certainly blown her cover.

She wasn't lonely on the job. The Bush anti-reality crowd was sizeable and determined. It's scary to think that these people were once making policy and acting as America's "public face."

TPM, why do you Drugdinise this blog? why give them mileage?

Push your case, your agenda, remember "stupid" is a winning strategy in America.

Do her teeth glow in the dark? In a room with a black light she'd be even scarier.

And to think conservatives call you folks clueless. This thread is a good example of why conservatives marched on Washington.
As the lady says, Obama singlehandedly took over auto manufacturing, denied bondholders their legally due debt, gave the companies to the unions, and then performed a government giveaway lasting a week and supporting the Asian auto manufacturers over our own.

With any luck at all the next Republican President will do the same with the MSM except for Fox and talk radio. Meanwhile cronyism made Goldman Sachs whole, and put builders on the dole.
He's invited thug dictators for a conference while revoking the visa of a constitutionally placed President, and just abandoned Eastern Europe to the Russians.

Apparently people that hold jobs, vote, and pay most of the taxes, think this kind of behavior is suspect. And I haven't even mentioned the deficit yet. No, Sauerbrey isn't crazy, overwrought, or hyperbolic. She sees the actual Obama record as heavy handed, and hostile to people such as herself. You can quibble over labels if you like but whatever word you want to use to denote growing central control will do just fine.

I find it interesting that Godwin's Law applies to Republicans as well as online chatter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

I don't recall Bush's following being called cult-like when the hard right followed him like lemmings to the Iraq War and the economic meltdown of last year.

""she said. "I'm saying, if you said ideals -- yes I do believe, when you look at the definition of fascism. Fascism is not government ownership of business, it is government control of business."""

Jeezbus Krike, you really are a stupid bitch! I am not sure where you went to school or if you even managed to graduate from any school, but for sure your standard reich wing repig ignorance is showing.. It is really getting old with all your fucking clowns trying to be polite and delicate and at the same time call our President a Nazi, Fascist and everything but what he is. And you couch your term in your best Rash Lintballs/Looney Toon Beckenese... Fuck You Ellen Sauerbrey, With a name like that, someone should check your birth certificate to see if you aren't the product of some Nazi's one night stand. Why is it that all these Reich Wing Bitches look like Nazi wannabe's??? Gene Damage, perhaps....
The 14 points of Fascism

1.

Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2.

Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3.

Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4.

Supremacy of the Military

Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5.

Rampant Sexism

The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.
6.

Controlled Mass Media

Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7.

Obsession with National Security

Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8.

Religion and Government are Intertwined

Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9.

Corporate Power is Protected

The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10.

Labor Power is Suppressed

Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11.

Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
12.

Obsession with Crime and Punishment

Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13.

Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14.

Fraudulent Elections

Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

They say that the Fuehrer was a terrific dancer, and that Churchill couldn't dance a step!

These people seem very confused. They want to say every possible bad thing about Obama, but they don't seem to realize or care if their charges contradict each other.

Is this what the final death throes of a political party look like?

These Republican theorists should actually do some reading before they opine. The forcible control of a business by the workers is more like anarco-syndacalism than fascism. CF what happened during the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia. And the fascists were none to happy with that. See Guenica.