FLAIT

Texas Republicans hate the flag, country:

Republican Larry Killgore, running for Governor of Texas:

I hate that flag up there. That flag that's above the Texas flag, that's a United States flag. I hate the United States government...US flag is comin' down from over Texas. It will not be part of Texas anymore...We want freedom, powerful and complete freedom! Succession! Succession is the answer!...We hate the United States! Get out of our lives, get off our backs! Move on!

(MoveOn, I agree!)

Republican Debra Madina, also running for Governor of Texas, at the same rally:

We are aware that stepping off into succession may in fact be a bloody war....We understand that the tree of freedom is occasionally watered with the blood of tyrants of patriots.

Okay, they're "fringe" candidates. But it was Gov. Rick Perry that brought up succession in the first place. But it doesn't matter. Anti-war Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich was branded a "fringe" candidate, and a "kook," and was denounced by the Right as "hating America" like all Democrats/liberals are.

Fringe or not, I wonder. What would happen if a Democrat actually said he "hates the American flag," "hates the United States" and called for his state to succeed in front of a cheering crowed of Democrats?

I think we have a good idea.

Iraq war protesters exercising their First Amendment rights - like Kucinich - were called traitors and un-American by the GOP and their brainwashed base. And Republicans blasted Democrats because they wanted to "cut and run" from Iraq (which wasn't true. But it was okay when Ronald Reagan "cut and ran" from Lebanon in 1984.).

Also (with Republican hypocrisy there's always an "also") during last years campaign, Sean Hannity questioned Barack Obama's allegiance to America because he didn't wear a flag pin (but at the time, Hannity wasn't wearing one either. And John McCain didn't regularly wear one. He didn't even wear one at his nomination, and didn't wear one at the World Trade Center site. Hannity didn't question McCain's allegiance to America, or his own.).

And now this:

Republicans are having a fit because Nancy Pelosi removed the patriotic music a caller to a congressional office would hear when they're put on hold (no, I'm not making this up). GOP Rep. Fred Upton sent a letter to House Chief Administrative Officer Daniel Beard objecting to the change (Fred sure has his priorities in order, huh?).

As usual, conservatives are blasting Pelosi as unpatriotic. And as usual, it wasn't true.

The music was changed during recess as a pilot program in an attempt to offer offices a choice of hold music.

This had nothing to do with the leadership — not in the beginning or the final outcome.

Do conservatives really think that Pelosi would do something like this, knowing full well she'd be giving Republicans ammunition to attack her? Do conservatives really think that Pelosi would waste her time with "hold music?"

As incredible as it sounds, yes they do. Even if they have to stand logic on it's head, they'll believe anything anti-Democratic or anti-liberal because that's how they've been trained.

Anyway, it looks like they went back to the old system. Happy now, Republicans?

But let's add this up:

When Democrats/liberals protest - just protest! - an unnecessary war that turned into a colossal disaster, fail to wear a flag pin, and remove patriotic music from the Capitol Hill phone system (even though she didn't), anger spews from Republicans and their cult-like base like water down the rapids. Those evil liberals who "hate America" are vilified as un-patriotic, un-American and traitors (also see John Kerry's Vietnam war record after the GOP got through with it).

But when Republicans actually scream, in anger, that they "hate the flag," "hate the United States" and call for succession in front of a group of cheering Republicans...

Crickets.

I guess it's okay to hate the flag, hate America and call for succession...as long as you're a Republican and actually admit it.

What hypocrites.

Note: You know those anti-Democratic and anti-liberal emails you always get from your Republican friends that are really internet hoaxes and you have to reply with the Snopes web page that proves it's a hoax? Well, it's only a matter of time before you get an email blasting Pelosi as "unpatriotic" because she "removed the Patriotic music." So reply with this.

I'm sure your Republican friends will then forward it to everyone they send their anti-Democratic and anti-liberal emails to. I mean, if they're going to forward emails that aren't true, it only makes sense that they forward ones that are true.

Oh, I'm sorry. They don't have any sense; if they did, they wouldn't be Republicans. My bad.

So assuming they don't forward it, it'll prove five things:

1) They don't have any sense.
2) They'll only forward lies, not the truth.
3) They're unable to think for themselves.
4) They're blatant hypocrites.
5) The GOP's a cult. Or worse.

Note: You know all those anti-Republican and anti-conservative emails you get from your liberal friends that you pass along to your conservative friends, and they reply with the Snopes web page that points out it's an Internet hoax? Me neither. I don't remember getting an email like that. Seriously. I'm not talking about a newspaper article or column that blasts a Republican or conservative. I mean an anti-Republican or anti-conservative Internet email hoax. I guess there just aren't that many circulating out there, at least compared to the anti-Democratic, anti-liberals hoaxes.

This proves four things:

1) Liberals have enough sense to separate fact from fiction.
2) Unlike conservatives, most liberals verify the truthfulness of these emails.
3) Unlike conservatives, most liberals wouldn't forward an Internet hoax email.
4) With the disastrous record the GOP has (also here, here, here, here, here and here), liberals don't have to make stuff up!

That's why I'm proud to be a liberal. We're honest! Give yourselves a round of applause!