The Self-anointed Leader of the Republican Party, Rush the Entertainer, has spoken.  Lay off Jindal!  He's the real deal!  This is the Limbaugh Lipstick!  It's an attempt to polish the turd Jindal dropped on the American people in response to Obama's speech before Congress.  It was an abyssmal failure.  Every Republican talking head denounced it, which is a highly unusual scenario.  Last time the Republicans lost their marching order, they were disavowing the McCain-Palin ticket.  Those talking heads were correct.  Rush Limbaugh was confused.  but who saw that coming?  I mean a drug addicted, ego-maniacal, loud mouth with a microphone gave bad advice, heralding McCain-Palin as the answer.  Why?  Well, because Rush said so, and he proceeded to lay the lipstick on the hockey Mom and the pilot? [How many planes does one have to crash before they are no longer considered a pilot?] turned POW.  It did not work then and it will not work now.

Why does Rush continue to try this tactic of, "If I say this is true the masses will follow"?  Because he believes he brought the nation to elect w the first time and he gives himself credit for getting Bush into office the second time, and he believes he can do it again. The Reich is betting $33 million dollars/year he can do it again.  At present, since term limits brought the Bush Regime to an end, Rush is 0 for 2. 

What Rush fails to realize, and lacking realiziation is a common difficulty with drug addicts, is that times have changed and the country has moved on.  The Limbaugh Lipstick is insufficient to get anyone into office anymore.  The red lipstick is out of fashion.  Everyone is wearing blue now.  Well, there will always be a few who cannot keep up with the times, but we're finally becoming a fact-based society and there is no evidence whatsoever that Bobby Jindal is someone who can even hold his own versus Team Obama.  In fact, there is no evidence whatsoever, that anyone on the Right can, not even you, no matter how much Limbaugh Lipstick you may wear.

Sometimes here on TPM, all it takes to get a good thread started is a for someone to toss up a topic and let the creative minds have at it.  By the time one reads everything, they're laughing and happy, especially when the realize that, yes, Obama is still President, and no, the Republicans got nuthin'.

There was a conspicuous lie that I picked up during the Jindal Republican response.  He stated that healthcare decision should be made between a patient and their doctor, not a bureaucrat.  Is he suggesting there would be no corporate hacker coaching the doctor to ignore more costly diagnostic procedures or treatments?  Come on!  The Republican plan leaves the healthcare to the doctor and the patient?  Not hardly.

Okay, I apologize.  That's not even remotely funny, but I'm sure you found something worth laughing about you can share.  Put it here.

What about now is not like Germany prior to the rise of Hitler and his Brown Shirts? 

When I travelled to Germany a few years ago, I was confronted by a question I had not considered.  It was a simple question of mathematics.  When one subtracts six from twelve, what does one get?  Six!  Seems easy and an insignificant number.  But I had never thought about it until then.  Why am I wasting the readers' time?  Well, let's get a million behind those little numbers.  If there were twelve million victims of the Holocaust, and six million were Jews, who were the rest of those killed by the Nazis?  That answer brings us to the parallel presented by America today.

The original targets of the Nazi extermination program were teachers, government officials, and suspected socialists.  These groups were resistent to the propaganda that the Nazis were promulgating and they were arrested, taken to the Labor camps and eventually succumbed.  In these camps prior to Hitler starting any wars, the average life expectancy was three months.  It was only in the last few months of Nazi Germany that the gas chambers were instituted.  Originally, the Nazis starved their prisoners and worked them to death.  Tthe prisoners were frequently brought to a trial with no semblance of fairness, found guilty of some political offense and shot.  It also needs to be stated that in their quest to conquer the world for a master race, the Nazis also exterminated homosexuals, as well as the physically and mentally handicapped.

Today America needs to respond admantly that the FOX noise is a threat to America, or at least Glenn Beck is.  His recent interview in "The War Room", not a subtle title for his intentions, was nothing short of inflammatory and treasonous.  While he feigned shock, Glenn Beck also declared that "so many people have been disenfranchised".  No one was denied their right to vote.  They were denied the Presidency for their candidate.  So to suggest they were disenfranchised is simply a provacative statement to stoke people's anger and resentment, the drug of choice for the FOX viewership.

The FOX noise typically attacks those same victims the Nazis did some 80 years ago, teachers, government officials, and suspected socialists.  That teachers and bureaucrats are typically members of organized labor unions is their happy coincidence. 

How did Hitler rise from his humble origins to Chancellor of Germany?  In the trough of an economic catastrophy as Germany recovered from its treasury-draining involvement in World War I.  Today, America is getting to the trough of an economic catastrophe as well, brought on by our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, coupled with the economic collapse of our banks and domestic auto industry.  Whether another Hitler will rise to power remains to be seen, but it is incumbent upon us to remain especially vigilant.  Our task must be to identify the false indignation and unwarranted accusations being made, because we have to defeat an ideology, not a person.  The goal is to deny them the ability to gather sufficient acolytes to their cause celebre, the defense of the Constitution according to their distorted intepretations of it.  Since Obama won just three short months ago, it is safe to assume they do not have the majority in favor of their ideas.  TPM, the War on Terror begins today.  The revolution will not be televised.