The worst yet

I read the comments of representative Andre Carson, Democrat of Indiana, who said at a Congressional Black Caucus event that some in Congress would “love to see us as second-class citizens” and “some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me…hanging on a tree.”
He went on to say that the Tea Party's efforts to cut spending was a move to return to Jim Crow.

This is really the worst yet in offensive, untrue race baiting coming from the Democrats. They seem unable to discuss the issues on the merits. Indeed, since the country clearly agrees in poll after poll that the right corse for America is to spend what we have rather than what we do not have, the upset of the left is coming out in crazy and angry rhetoric.

It is almost trite to point back to just six months ago when president Obama spoke in Phoenix and called for a new civil dialogue, one in which personal attacks and vitriol was avoided. That was at a point when representative Giffords had been shot by a mentally ill man and the Democrats and the press were busy blaming the shooting on Sarah Palin's map that had appeared some six months earlier to show target districts in the 2010 election. Of course, that claim turned out to be totally bogus, but the pious statements of the Democrats about turning down the volume on the rhetoric came pouring out nevertheless.

Now, a sitting Congressman is accusing a large group in Congress and the country of virulent racism, conspiracy to commit murder and, in essence, genocide. It seems that he did not get the message from the Obama speech. OK, so he may be just a crazy pol who spouts off without control. Of course, when he said this to the Congressional Black Caucus, not one of them got up and challenged him. Not one spoke at the event to apologize. President Obama has made no statement condemning this language. The chair of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, has not said anything even though the event took place in Florida near her district. The vice president, who called the same Tea Party group terrorists, has also been quiet. I assume Biden is glad that someone finally said something worse than his statement.

Of course, out in America, the ordinary folks must be amazed. The quarter of the voting public that considers itself part of the Tea Party may be offended by these remarks or they may think that the statements just reveal the true idiocy of this one man. In truth, however, the silence of the rest of the Democrats should make clear to the Tea Party just how much work remains to be done to rid the Congress of these angry and unreasonable Democrats, people who seem unable to recognize reality, people who think that everyone who opposes them must be racist, homophobic and a neanderthal.

The real truth is that it is the Democrats who are hoping to go back to the "good old days" when government spent and spent and spent, even though it had no money.

Finally, for what it is worth, Carson should be censured by the House for his statements. It will not mean anything, but it should happen nevertheless.