Conservatives: Everyone is Anti-American

Jonathan Allen reports for CQ that conservative legislators are seeing anti-American plots everywhere these days:

House Democrats, a Los Angeles Superior Court official and Columbia University are among the entities Republican lawmakers have described as “anti-American,” “anti-American power” or “anti-American military” on the House floor in the current Congress.

Amid a backlash against Republicans who have challenged their colleagues’ loyalty to America or Americans on the campaign trail, a review of the Congressional Record reveals that similar rhetoric has been in use in the House chamber, as well.

In particular, the term “anti-American” has been hurled freely in floor debates by a pair of junior GOP stalwarts, Reps. Virginia Foxx and Ted Poe .

Poe stops short of calling colleagues anti-American, reserving that for institutions and individuals outside of Congress, but Foxx has angered Democrats by aiming the epithet at them.

The question, to me, is if Barack Obama wins and Democrats expand their majorities in the House and the Senate, does that show that America itself has become anti-American?