Gingrey Compares Democratic Leadership To The ‘Forces Of Darkness’ In Iran And North Korea
Gingrey Compares Democratic Leadership To The ‘Forces Of Darkness’ In Iran And North Korea
Last week, several Republican House members compared themselves to Iranian protesters, claiming that being in the minority in Congress was just like being violently oppressed in Iran. “I wonder if there isn’t more freedom on the streets of Tehran right now than we are seeing here,” said Rep. David Dreier (R-CA). Reps. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and John Culberson (R-TX) made similar comparisons on Twitter.
Despite the online uproar that followed the egregious comparisons, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) went even further today. Complaining about the proposed rules for debate on clean energy legislation, Gingrey compared Democrats to the “forces of darkness” in Iran and North Korea:
GINGREY: Madam speaker, thank you. I rise in opposition to this rule and to the underlying legislation. I’m just not sure to which I’m more opposed. Americans are watching as from Iran to North Korea, the forces of darkness are attempting to silence the forces of democracy and freedom. The irony is on this day, the Democratic process and the nation’s economic freedom are under threat not by some rogue state, but in this very chamber in which we stand. Good people may disagree on the impact or the merits of this bill. But no one can disagree with the fact that the speaker and her rules committee have silenced the opposition.
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June 26th, 2009 at 1:53 pmFreeMarketLiberal
Please take the time to FLAG this mindless troll.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:53 pmGingrey Compares Democratic Leadership To The ‘Forces Of Darkness’ In Iran And North Korea
– - Pfffft, Gingrey is a complete cipher for Limbaugh.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:54 pm#1, #2 FLAGGED for OT SPAM
June 26th, 2009 at 1:54 pmThen why will you no STFU Gingrey??
June 26th, 2009 at 1:56 pm“Forces of darkness”? As judged by the farces of darkness. How do these hillbillies get elected????
June 26th, 2009 at 1:58 pmTHINK PROGRESS
It may be in your best interest to finally BAN free market liberal.
I noticed that he is posting comments within one or two minutes of the threads going up.
It may give some readers the wrong impression, leading them to believe that he is a ringer posting here to make right wingers look bad.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:58 pmDone.
Time to ignore its mindless prattling.
Also, on topic, it’s time to call the WAAAAAAAAHmbulance for Rep. Gingrey.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:59 pmRethuglicans = Dixiecrats
Enjoy the new century.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:00 pmFlag FLM:
I say we start treating Gingray et. al. like the oppostion parties are treated in Iran and N Korea if that’s how they want it. A few well placed beatings, disapearences, and midnight home raids will show idiots like Gingeray the difference.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:01 pmAfter eight years of having everything their way and having driven America into the ground (unless you are filthy rich), the only option open to them is to call names and continue to take “The sky is falling” approach to everything. Too bad Americans are now interesting in solutions and not slogans.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:05 pmI love it when republicans are given a chance to speak out publicly in the house and senate about how their voices are being silenced… i love seeing it broadcast on television that their opinions are not heard.
these poor republicans are never given a chance to get their views out to the public.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
ridiculous…. just because things don’t go your way in a democracy doesn’t mean you’ve been silenced.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:05 pmI am beginning to feel sorry for the republicans. Not because they are an oppressed minority subjegated by the “forces of darkness” . . . but because their utter uselessness, their lack of constructive policy ideas, their lack of willingness to participate in the legislative process has forced them to resort to such a phony and transparent defense of their own failings as calling themselves victims.
They are victims all right . . . victims of their own failed ideology, lack of judgement, immorality and incompetence. The thought that they would be blaming others for their own short-comings is the ultimate admission of their own fatal flaws.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:05 pmWhat’d I miss?
Who the hell is trying to silence democracy??
Maybe Gingrey is banned from the fox and Pillboy media hatefests and haven’t forgiven him yet for his temporary ‘foot in mouth disease’ neocon malady!!
We feel your pain, Rep. Stooopid.
Maybe you should vacation for two weeks at CAMP GITMO. The Dick says its a lovely place, with flowing breezes, good food, exercise cages, lotsa conversation, WATER sports!!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pmI sometimes wish our Congress would act more like the British Parliament. That should have been greeted with loud laughter and jeers.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pmI wonder if Gingrey will be as quick to apologize to our Nation as he was to Mount Rushblow.
What a wuss.
This kind of drivel belongs in the trash can.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pmThe sore loser sour grapes club didn’t know how bad it is until they became the minority party. They need to realize they wounldn’t be in the minority if their policies worked. I’m confident they’ll never come to that realization. They’ll just keep shoveling their sht, hoping the ignorance of the masses remains.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:10 pmBan FreeMarketLiberal.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:11 pmWhile flagging Trolls, take a moment to inform TP that if they continue to allow this thread hijacking, they’ll only have Trolls posting.
Ban by IP, not user name.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:11 pmthe online right is going full bore on this. we have to steal their thunder:
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/direct-action-by-the-left-and-right-online/
June 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pmIt might be more productive to achieve actual fact-based, civil debate in America about such topics if the GOP were able to check it’s repetitive inane claims of vicitmization and egregious sense of greed-driven entitlement at the door.
Unfortuantely those characteristics are the foundation of their belief system.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pmwiley Says:
I sometimes wish our Congress would act more like the British Parliament. That should have been greeted with loud laughter and jeers.
i agree totally
maybe then some of these idiots would stop saying things that are utterly untrue or blatantly ridiculous. if half the room would start laughing or booing when someone said something ridiculous they might actually feel embarrassed by it, rather than walking away feeling as if they stood for something
June 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pmAnd outside of his ignorant district, which I’d like to see his current approval numbers, who the hell knows who this bozo is?
I see you are back to the 24/7 backwash coverage – letting the folks that could actually get something done “off the hook” and providing them cover for more capitulation.
Bring on the festival of ignorance!!!!!!!!!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:13 pmAs it should, Phil. I am ashamed that you are from Ga. Everytime you open your mouth, you give people the impression that everyone living here is a NUT. I’ll always have a mental picture of you lashing out at Limbaugh and crawling back to apologize within 24 hours.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:13 pm“But no one can disagree with the fact that the speaker and her rules committee have silenced the opposition.”
Whereupon the Democratic Basijis rushed to the lectern and dragged the infidel Gingrey away. He was never seen or heard from again.
These people are freakin’ idgetts!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:14 pmThis guy is another wingnut who thinks the world was created in 7 twenry four hour days six thousand years ago and they also beleive it is flat. The amazing thing to me is that he is an MD who must have studied some kind of science.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:16 pmJune 26 Conference at National Press Club About DOJ Political Prosecutions Features Rep. John Conyers, Don Siegelman, Scott Horton, and Former Alabama Federal Judge Clemon
I bet virtually no one here heard this one – but it is so much more important when some wingnut says something stupid (which is what wingnuts do each and every day).
Here’s a story that is actually about change – obviously, not what TP is all about.
Of course, if Conyers really wanted to do something about this, could have done much more then send all those nasty letters over the past few years.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:19 pmI noticed that he is posting comments within one or two minutes of the threads going up
Is there a rule against that?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:20 pmWow.
The right sure now how to whore in on the world’s political and emotional climate, now don’t they?
First Michael Jackson, and now Iran & North Korea.
What’s next?
The clean energy legislation is causing the current heat wave?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:22 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
How’s the Obama tax cuts working for you all? Thanks Obama Carter for saving our Country by driving it deeper into the hole!
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YEAH, how ’bout all those 5,000+ DEEP HOLES where our military [who were duped into fighting in Iraq] are BURIED!!!!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:22 pmTP = Trivialization of Politics.
Obfuscation and distraction a specialty.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:22 pm… the speaker and her rules committee have silenced the opposition.
just not enough…
serious question, TP:
are there ever any dems who follow up, push back, decry and/or in general call these idiots out for their crazy talk?
if so, it would be great to hear/see them…
thanks.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:23 pmDRxJ Says
You must have missed keith olbermann going on the air 2 hrs early yesterday to cover m. jackson. Whore?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:24 pmThe “forces of darkness” – what a drama queen!
It would be amusing if it wasn’t for the fact that there are gullible people out there who are actually going to buy that crap.
I think it’s important that we call these people out for their disingenuous rhetoric.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:25 pmHe’s speaking out on the floor of the house about how he can’t speak out on the floor of the house? *shrugs*
June 26th, 2009 at 2:27 pmOh come on Joe,
John CON-years actually doing something…
… Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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June 26th, 2009 at 2:27 pmCan someone please explain to me when Keith Olbermann became an elected politician?
And when he started using drama of the current events to further his political party’s agenda?
Thanks
June 26th, 2009 at 2:27 pmArn Gunnutes Says:
Arn, you know I love ya but… it’s Phil Gingrey that was speaking, not Newt Gingrich. Rep. Gingrey is an as yet unnamed member of the reptile species.
PEACE
June 26th, 2009 at 2:28 pmThere goes the idiotic repugs again.
No new ideas, no real comparison, no rational but plenty of stupid.
Forces of Darkness = teabagger repugs
June 26th, 2009 at 2:28 pmJon Stewart said it best:
“I think you’re confusing ‘Tyranny’ with ‘Losing’.”
June 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pm… Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Oh, Joe. You really made my day.
:)
June 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pmAnother Joe Says:
TP = Trivialization of Politics.
Obfuscation and distraction a specialty.
P!ss off, idiot. Take your self-righteous BS to some other blog. At least 40 people, regular participants here, have asked you to knock this crap off. If you don’t like it here, move along.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pmThen… why are you here, again?
I’m confused.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pmThey forget that buckshot cheney is darth.
I would love to kick them in their lyin throats.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:30 pmCan someone please explain to me when Keith Olbermann became an elected politician?
Limbaugh ring any bells? Beck? O’Reilly? Hannity?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:30 pmand through divisive rhetoric such as this, the cancervatives can’t figure out for the life of them why they’re in the minority.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:31 pmDo I at least get to wear a cape?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:32 pmFreeMarketLiberal Says:
How’s the Obama tax cuts working for you all? Thanks Obama Carter for saving our Country by driving it deeper into the hole!
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Wingnuts really think that five months is sufficient time to clean up after the eight years of tax cuts for the cronies, no bid contracts for the cronies, illegal, unnecessary wars in the middle east? Bush Tax Cuts for the cronies $1.3 Trillion. Harvard estimates the unnecessary war in Iraq has cost us $3 Trillion. Bush policies crashed wall street before Obama was elected. Now get some education, teabagger.
Ten bucks says Rush Limbugh told Gingrey to say that.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:32 pmHuh?
Why does our Oblermann-obsessed troll so focused on his love interest? Is it Keith’s eyes he loves? His hair? His sonorous voice?
Whatever it is, the kid’s got it bad for KO.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:32 pmAnother Joe Says:
TP = Trivialization of Politics.
Obfuscation and distraction a specialty.
You’re right!
repugs do trivialized politics and their wives.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:33 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
Limbaugh ring any bells? Beck? O’Reilly? Hannity?
Yes, we discuss them when the news post at top mentions them or when they are relevant to the thread. Not in every thread all the time like you do with your man-crush Olbermann. Go start a fanclub website for him and leave it out of here, ‘k?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:33 pmI smell a Hoekstra!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:34 pmkaty Says:
… the speaker and her rules committee have silenced the opposition.
just not enough…
serious question, TP:
are there ever any dems who follow up, push back, decry and/or in general call these idiots out for their crazy talk?
if so, it would be great to hear/see them…
I agree Katy. When questioned about this kind of coverage, or lack thereof, in the past TP has opted to avoid the appearance of advocating for the Dems for tax reasons.
Personally I would LOVE to see more evidence of “follow up, push back” etc. from the Democrats!! Assuming there’s anything like that going on obviously.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:36 pmThis is the guy fighting for keeping the F-22 because Lockheed is in his district.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:36 pmRHF@60, hell, the head of the RNC kissed tub-o-lard’s blubbery buttcheeks and apologized to him.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:38 pmHmmmm…
What am I missing here?
Gore and others have developed ways to profit from saving the capacity of the planet to support human life. That makes them terrible people, not worthy or trust.
However, the Pukes and their corpoRat masters are busily making profits from destroying the capacity to support human life, but they’re worthy, wonderful citizens, contributing to the wonder of life?
Izzat right?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:39 pmSo is Gingrary, citing the forces of darkness, gonna pull out his light sabre ?
And isn’t debate in Congress governed by a very well established set of rules ? So does Gingrary not believe in following the rules ?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pmFunny, we suffered under eight long years of darkness under the Bush gangster regime, and not a peep was heard from these Republican chickens and Republican chicken-hawks. Now that they are no longer able to fear-monger, war-monger and successfully terrorize the American people with their endless lies, they are sputtering around like a flock of wet hens…
These Republicans could start by apologizing to the American people for their mindless partisan support of eight years of torture, treason and tyranny under Cheney and Bush. That would be a beginning of their vaunted “re-branding.”
June 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pmGingrey born in June of 42, never served a day in the military, but talks tough!He’s another in a long line of yellow,jello-spined chickenhawks that festers with-in the Regressive Republican Party!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:42 pmFast on the draw with his mouth, that had been recently encircled around Rush’s love-torpedo, but when it came to serving in the military during the Vietnam War years, you couldn’t find him anywhere!
I thought the repubs hated the folks who whinned about being victims. But here they are crying about the laws victimizing them.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:42 pmGod’s army of trolls
June 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pmGnawing at Reason’s ankles
Toothless, hollow men
Republicans are the character played by Michael Douglas in the movie, “Falling Down”… but never asking incredulously “I’m the bad guy?!” because Democrats are to passive-aggressive and won’t do anything about their bad behavior. Even adults need to be spanked, now and again.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pmAPEC not OPEC Says:
This is the guy fighting for keeping the F-22 because Lockheed is in his district.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Some part of the B-2 bomber is either designed, or manufactured, or tested, or stored, or shipped, or installed, or retired by some Govt. contractor in every single ONE of the nation’s 435 Congressional districts.
On the international stage, that’d be immediately recognized as colonialism.
No Congresscritter wants there ever to come a time when a contract expires and is not replaced by a new one, because if that happened, some (gasp) “opportunistic, dishonest” political opponent might make it an issue in the next primary or general election.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:44 pmPot, meet kettle.
Republicans: They got nothin’. Absolutely nothin’. They got less than they ever had in the entire history of their existence.
And the less they have, the harder they cling to it…
June 26th, 2009 at 2:44 pmsomeone ought to inform these crybaby beyotches if they won an election now and then, they wouldn’t have to soil their pampers about how unfairly they’re being treated now that they’re in the minority
June 26th, 2009 at 2:45 pmO/T: pixilated digital television sucks big time. Bring back our analog over-the-air broadcast television. Who wants to watch images that are breaking up at random times? I guess that this is the government/corporation plan to brow-beat everyone into paying for cable or satellite television service, just to be able to watch a clear picture. Greed lives on in America.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:45 pmGingrey born in June of 42, never served a day in the military, but talks tough!He’s another in a long line of yellow,jello-spined chickenhawks that festers with-in the Regressive Republican Party!
all Pukes are ALWAYS veterans, whether they ever served a day under arms, or not. I thought you knew that. That’s why it’s acceptable for Pukes who never served to questyion the courage and/or patriotism of veterans in the Other Party…
June 26th, 2009 at 2:46 pmOh the poor whinning repugs. The dems are making it so hard on us repugs. Look dems are just saving the tax payers money by cutting off debate, because everybody already knows you lumps are going to vote no anyways, so whats the big deal?
June 26th, 2009 at 2:47 pmThe speak has silenced the opposition, silenced it! Except for me whose voice somehow manages to ring out despite the aforementioned silencing.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pmThe Minority Report:
BlahBlahBlahvictimsBlahBlahBlahNancyBlahBlahBlahforces of darknessBlahBlahBlahpoor meBlahBlahBlahsilenced the oppositionBlahBlahBlah.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pmGingrey. Card carrying member of the forces of stupid, from planet Lame.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:55 pmIf Gingrey and the rest of the Congressional Republicans are unhappy with the rules, they only have themselves to blame.
As soon as the Gingrich “Contract With America” crowd took over in 1995, they wasted no time in changing the rules to marginalize Democrats as much as possible, including making it effectively impossible for any legislation to make it to the floor without being sponsored by a Republican. And as soon as one of their own landed in the White House and the threat of veto vanished, they added reconciliation to the toolbox — rendering the Democrats even more voiceless.
And NOW they’re whining? Hey — they started it. They defined what the minority party should be (invisible). They can now lie in the bed they made.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:56 pmBut DEMOCRATS don’t KISS KEITH’S *SS and APOLOGIZE TO HIM ALL OF THE TIME.
Because nobody watches that fat ass irrelevant pos!
June 26th, 2009 at 2:59 pmThis guy who was the first to kiss the “Golden Mic” of the almighty El Rushbo wants me to take anything he says seriously…?
Dont think so…
June 26th, 2009 at 3:21 pmThe “forces of darkness” term more accurately describes all that fecal matter in the brains of the typical repiggie in Congress.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:34 pmMan… no napkin on planet earth could hide the hard-on RLF has for Olbermann.
Buddy, that’s some barn full of sexual frustration you’ve built up. It’s going to be quite the mess when it finally …explodes.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pmThis is coming from the same crybabies who made the democratic party meet in the basement during their majority in the bu$hco years.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pmWhile the Godly Repugs Stanford offers to kill his lover’s husband, Vitter girds his loins (with a diaper), and Sen. Craig offers to blow Garbiels horn.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:47 pmHe’s just the most adorable Georgia peach.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:53 pmBackup:
Remember my question regarding whether you understood how alpine glaciers accumulate, flow and retreat?
I wasn’t doing a survey, it was a relevant question and by posting that link, you gave me your answer.
You don’t know squat.
The fact that it was 250 feet under the ice is to be expected and what that tells us on average 52 inches of ice has accumulated on top of the planes each year.
What we don’t know from this link is what is the difference in glacier mass balance between the time of the crash and the present time. We also need to compare the location of the glacial terminus at the time of the crash and it’s present location.
Unless you prove that the glacial terminus is static or has advanced, along with an accumulation of glacial density, all you have done is posted an IRRELEVANT LINK.
Thanks Backup, after 30 years I finally used some knowledge from the boring 4 hour lectures in advanced glacial geomorphology.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:07 pmMY BAD
The above comment was meant for the previous thread, sorry.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:09 pmkasinca Says:
FreeMarketLiberal Says:
How’s the Obama tax cuts working for you all? Thanks Obama Carter for saving our Country by driving it deeper into the hole!
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Wingnuts really think that five months is sufficient time to clean up after the eight years of tax cuts for the cronies, no bid contracts for the cronies, illegal, unnecessary wars in the middle east? Bush Tax Cuts for the cronies $1.3 Trillion. Harvard estimates the unnecessary war in Iraq has cost us $3 Trillion. Bush policies crashed wall street before Obama was elected. Now get some education, teabagger.
Thank you!
And this thing the msm and repugs keep harping on: if President Obama doesn’t turn things around fast he won’t get another term. Thus opening the door for another rabid repug to take office. Yeah right. You wish.
That is pure repug teabagging bullshit.
Hell will be a tropical paradise before they sit in the Oval Office again.
teabaggers are clowns and we don’t need that rep any longer.
June 26th, 2009 at 4:20 pmPeople like Gingrey are so totally un-American when they make such ridiculous, hateful statements against their own government. He & others like him should be turfed out asap.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pmThis man who represents part of the deep south, should do what they do best. Just continue to inbreed and shut up. Don’t try to think, it hurts your brain. Just check your web feet and kiss your sister.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:01 pmWell maybe I am a tadbit late on this, but this should have been done a very long time ago, but the Republicans says there is no global warming, but it keeps getting hot and being an asthmetic, I cannot breath…
June 27th, 2009 at 3:53 pmWow, now that is really deep! Comparing Obama to Iran and North Korea…Deep really deep… Keep em coming think progress… LOL… I actually think someone out there does not like the idea of an African-American as a President. I read on different blogs, that he is a Socialist, Fascist and a Marxist… Damn he is Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Wow…
June 27th, 2009 at 6:23 pm