Guy Fawkes, New Republican Hero

Cripes, what are they smoking over there? This is how they reckon they'll 'win'?


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023489.php


GUY FAWKES, NEW REPUBLICAN HERO.... Last fall, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) organized a right-wing rally on Capitol Hill for November 5, in the hopes of killing health care reform. After characterizing her followers as "insurgents" and "freedom fighters," Bachmann urged far-right activists to, in her word, "scare" federal lawmakers.

The scheduling of Bachmann's Capitol Hill soiree was a little disconcerting -- she picked a date widely known as Guy Fawkes Night. In other words, one of the country's most extreme lawmakers chose to rally right-wing activists, label them an "insurgency," and encourage them to roam the halls of Congress deliberately "scaring" members of Congress, on the infamous date that marks an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

Fortunately, 11/5 came and went without incident. But the Republican affection for Guy Fawkes has apparently not dissipated. Time's Michael Scherer had this report:



Josh Marshall added, "I find this completely bewildering. The Republican Governors Association is embracing the mantle of a 17th century radical who tried but failed to pull off a mass casualty terrorist attack to kill the King of England and all of Parliament.... Nothing shocks me anymore. But this shocks me."

It's a reminder that the Republican mainstream made a right turn at scary, and have arrived right at stark raving mad.

—Steve Benen

And I'll tell you something else from far parts of the world- It's not so easy to find the most outstanding places.

We search for them- Last of the Tuarts- and so forth

More than that- from the ends of the earth, we look back.

Scary.

Again, where is the Dept. of Homeland Security on this? It seems like everyday, they are engaging in seditious behavior. Plus, they aren't doing anything to restrain their "thugs" the Teabaggers.

They are addicted. They cannot identify purpose, meaning, value, motive without violence.

Also, nowhere in this video is there any reference to Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes day, or anything associated with V for Vendetta.

It is bad propaganda but I've watched this twice per link on DU and I see no link to that movie.


Remember November is actually a monarchist poem in England celebrating Guy Fawkes capture, torture, and execution.

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...

This a bad piece of hack journalism, the reporter should be fired unless he has someone on the record saying the website is in the spirit of Guy Fawkes.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/04/23/republican-governors-pay-homage-to-guy-fawkes/?xid=rss-topstories

Republican Governors Pay Homage To Guy Fawkes


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/04/this_is_their_messaging.php

This is Their Messaging?

V for Vendetta?

It is fucking hack journalism, the Time Report pretty much made this story up. TPM this is their messaging, the reference to Fawkes or V for Vendetta was made by the reporter, there is no fucking reference to it in the video or on their website.

Just because they side with me ideologically on more than a few issues, doesn't mean I should give them a pass for making shit up.

Remember November is a royalist mantra, not one of the Catholics, fucking a freshmen in college who is taking an Intro to British history class could point that out.

What can I say? They weren't anti-American fascists when we were kids. Anyway, I am posting this poem whenever I see that someone likes the Remember November video.

Was pretty much King James rallying cry against the ultra protestants and Catholics...his grand kid loses that battle.

Sorry, get Charles I lost in there because his reign wasn't that long.

this is a big reach on Time, Washington Monthly and TPM's part. I see no Guy Fawkes references on their website.

President?

Wasn't James I England's "divinely anointed" king?

Why would repukes celebrate going against God like that?

Just asking...

James I dabbled in it, his grandkid embraced it, and the English cut off his head.

That was what I was talking about.

Oops, I was wrong, he was moderate because he introduced the concept, his Grandkid ran with it.

Sorry, my mistake.

But evidently just for B*sh.

That braindead shitbag only attains the office because of five monstrously corrupt Supreme Court justices, and that's proof of God's desire to see him be President.

Barack Obama wins an undisputed election with 53% of the vote, and he somehow thwarted the will of the people and of God himself.

:eyes:

were not needed for any legislation to pass congress...as far as what they think, after Nixon, what they think is generally fucking crazy.

Can't say the democrats are doing much better, they've embraced some of the crazy.

Apologies for James I, he seems moderate on divine right because he introduced the concept.

He only escaped being hung, drawn, and quartered by leaping from the gallows and breaking his neck. Is that really how republicans want things to turn out?

seditious plot against Protestant England. King James Bible, anyone?

These people are dim.

Is this what Anyone would want representing YOUR Political Group?




Maybe we should call the Repukes "Teh Chan Klan"

She is no better than any garden variety terrorist with a bomb strapped to them.