I Hate What You Just Said

Thanks to my good friend Larry Tate for tipping us off to another SJOYA contender.

It appears that Representative Paul Broun (R - GA) is caught up in the excitement of Barack Obama’s election victory. However, his particular type of excitement manifests itself in the form of fear-mongering paranoid right-wing fantasy.  According to Broun, Obama will govern like Stalin.  Or Hitler.  Or something.  Whatever - he just knows it’s going to be really bad!

A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”

Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.

“That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

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The Obama transition team declined to comment on Broun’s remarks. But spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama was referring in the speech to a proposal for a civilian reserve corps that could handle postwar reconstruction efforts such as rebuilding infrastructure — an idea endorsed by the Bush administration.

Well, I agree with you on one point, Congressman - you do sound “crazy and off-base.” And you are now our third nominee for the Shameful Jackass of the Year Award. Good luck, and keep an eye out for the Obama storm troopers! You Jackass.