A video was posted in which someone filmed Paul Ryan, a Koch brothers lackey all the way, meeting his followers and put it on youtube.

He began with the anchor baby argument, but at :55 in the video, he says their goal is to turn enough states red to get them to pass a repeal of the 14th Amendment. He framed it in terms of illegals because of welfare, but this much more dangerous than it first appears.

Those people ate it up, because that's how they get the lower in society to vote for what they want, division based on hatred. But consider the other clauses in the 14th upon which many of our rights depend.

In addition to the Reconstruction part of the Amendment's citizen protections with birthright, there are the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses. We know what their intentions on voting rights have been; their assaults on the poor and every kind of 'minority' civil rights. They wouldn' stop at ending birthright citizenship, or any form of gender rights, labor or environmental protections.

They want this country back to something far older, oppressive than most of us ever knew. Here is the video, the thread and my further comments. I hope that people will listen to this:

Paul Ryan Casually Drops This Slur And Shows The GOP's Effort To 'Reach Out' Is B.S.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017117146

My comment here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017117146#post3

Think two steps ahead, this is not just about bigotry. They know that will garner attention of those who believe they need to discriminate and those who are resisting that. While we must resist, think long-term.

It's always about money and power with all the works of the Koch brothers, their candiates and ALEC.

This is what is being planned in the private rooms and country clubs across this nation. They have the money and a plan. We must mobilize and keep going, not get demoralized by every passing thing that the media tells us. They are playing for keeps.

The ones you are noticing are more terrified than anything else. They are lashing out because they are comfortable; and to acknowledge what is happening is a threat to that comfort.

Ignore them, for they are not the voices that will rise in the coming days, months and years. They are not the voices of our collected humanity. They are the old voices of fear and impotence.

~ Anonymous

By: Rmuse Apr. 6th, 2013

The identifying traits of fantasy are the inclusion of fantastic elements in an imaginary setting where inspiration from mythology and folklore drive a consistent theme that generally includes good guys versus a bad guy. Since 2009, Republicans have fabricated fantastic narratives of good, white patriots against their made-up bad guy, Barack Obama, and it never fails they take their good guy inspiration from the senile dead man they made into a god; Ronald Reagan. True to form, on Thursday, Liz Cheney told a fantastic tale replete with a quote from Reagan he “borrowed” from Thomas Jefferson, and used it to attack the President for all manner of make-believe offenses typical of conspiracy theorists and dysfunctional conservative sycophants...

Cheney must have enlisted her vile father, Dick, to give her talking points the ignorant and “freedom-loving” patriot types would understand, and she went through a laundry list of assertions about the President so far removed from the truth there is little doubt she is a typical lying Republican fear monger. She began with the requisite “President Obama is the most radical man ever to occupy the Oval Office,” and accused him of creating diversions using manufactured crises meant to cover over “real threats to the republic.” As with every other Republican assertion about the President, Cheney claims his wont to borrow, spend, and high taxes agenda is the result of his lack of awareness of the free-enterprise system, and his ignorance “explains his hostility toward the private sector.” The private sector incidentally, is thriving because of the President’s economic policies and historically low tax rates, but when you are fantasizing about a bad guy, facts do not matter...

It was the subject of war, or the hopes of new wars, that Cheney followed her father’s typical script and accused the President of “so effectively diminishing American strength abroad that there is no longer a question of whether this was his intent. He is working to pre-emptively disarm the United States.” Cheney parroted neo-conservatives’ assertion that President Obama is sending a message to Islamic extremists that if “you attack us with impunity. You will suffer no consequences.” According to Cheney, “President Obama stood by and did nothing when al Qaeda’s affiliates in Libya killed the U.S. ambassador and three other brave Americans in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11,” and “turned his back on America’s allies around the world and ignored growing threats.” It is likely that Cheney missed the months of perpetual attacks on this President from the right and left for unmanned drone attacks on al Qaeda’s leadership and Islamic extremists in the Middle East, Pakistan, and Africa...

There was nothing new, or true, in Cheney’s attack on the President and she clearly was speaking to recalcitrant Republicans who are realizing that their entrenchment in right-wing extremism is not setting well with voters. In fact, her words will ring truest with teabaggers and pseudo-patriots who yearn for Bush’s cowboy diplomacy and libertarians anxious to privatize the government, but for the majority of Americans it was just another Dick Cheney, Paul Ryan, and Koch brothers’ speech that was void of truth, contradicted facts, and sheer fantasy. Cheney outdid herself and entered the rarified air of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Ted Cruz who fight imaginary villains with imaginary facts and wonder why no-one in their right mind takes them seriously.

http://www.politicususa.com/delusional-liz-cheney-projects-fathers-mistakes-president-obama.html

She even snarls just like Darth...

Daughter Liz: Dick Cheney is Afraid of Torture Prosecutions

May. 22nd, 2009

Last night on CNN, Liz Cheney revealed that her father former vice president Dick Cheney is speaking out in defense of torture right now because he is afraid of being prosecuted for war crimes. Apparently, the person that Cheney is most interested in protecting is himself.

Cheney said, “I don’t think he planned to be doing this, you know, when they left office in January. But I think, as it became clear that President Obama was not only going to be stopping some of these policies, that he was going to be doing things like releasing the — the techniques themselves, so that the terrorists could now train to them, that he was suggesting that perhaps we would even be prosecuting former members of the Bush administration.”

I don’t think anybody should be surprised that a man who is motivated by, and motivates others, with fear is frightened of prosecution. Cheney is on the attack, not out some desire to protect the nation, he is trying to save his own legacy, and keep his butt out of prison. Guys with heart conditions don’t do well in the old pokey. Every once in a while a little bit of truth manages to sneak through, the GOP argument in favor of torture.

http://www.politicususa.com/Cheney-Torture-Fear.html

Lot of stuff at that link, too.