Minute men and women

Some are more minute than others.

Tom Tancredo (R-CO):

"Well, what if you said something like — if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites," Tancredo answered.

"You're talking about bombing Mecca," Campbell said.

"Yeah," Tancredo responded. (Fox News)

Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA):

Progressive political actions that Rep. Rohrabacher could have taken but unfortunately chose not to take:

• By voting "no" on the Farr Amendment, Rep. Rohrabacher voted to keep Section 102 in H.R. 418, giving a Bush administration bureaucrat the ability to nullify any law without judicial review of that decision. Where I come from, they call that dictatorship.
  
  
• By voting "no" on the Scott Amendment, Rep. Rohrabacher voted to keep language in H.R. 27 that allows organizations to engage in government-funded religious discrimination in hiring. We had thought that bigotry was old hat, and that the separation of church and state was secure. With this vote, Rep. Rohrabacher has helped to weaken the constitution and bring bigotry back in style. (Irregular Times)
  

Terry Anderson (no, not the former hostage; the radio host):

“Racism, in a word. The disdain and distrust that the Black Caucus has for white America is so great that it is willing to sell the black community out in a heartbeat. The Caucus will take a brown face over a white face any day. If you think for a minute that any Black Caucus member is going to take sides with the all-white immigration reduction leaders, you’re dreaming.” (VDare; warning--nasty batshit-crazy cooties)

Jim Gilchrist (Minuteman founder):

Alan, there are supremacist groups out there of all races, colors and creeds. It's not just white supremacists. Why are you picking on them? There are brown. There are purple. There are red. (Media Matters)

On the Capitol Grounds, Grass Roots Rising

The people out on the West Lawn of the Capitol were the kind of God-fearing, flag-waving conservatives who usually adore President Bush. But not yesterday.

"The president doesn't want secure borders!" Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) shouted to the anti-immigration rally, organized by the Minuteman Project. "He has the resources to do so, but the unfortunate, dirty truth of the matter is he has no desire to do so."

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) denounced Bush's immigration policy, saying, "I personally will not vote for any legislation that has a guest worker program in it."

As demonstrators cheered and waved signs saying such things as "Bush Buries the Middle Class," talk-show host Terry Anderson summed up the mood. "The president sucks," he cried.

The fervor subsided only when two men dressed in brown and wearing swastikas goose-stepped toward the Minutemen and gave a Nazi salute. The men, straight out of "The Producers," handed out fliers encouraging the Minutemen to "end your alliance with the Republicans!!!" -- and join the American Nazi Party. Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist called for an intermission "to resolve this situation."

As any nazi can tell you, it takes one to know one. Next time these wackos congregate in one spot, could we please just throw a net over them and release them in the wild? Say, somewhere in the Amazon?

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