Thursday, August 12, 2010

A Statement By Marg Baker

More at ThinkProgress
We can follow what happened back in the 40s or 50s. I was just a little girl in Miami, and they built camps for the people that snuck into the country, because they were illegal. They put them in the camps, and they shipped them back. We can do that.


And here is the corresponding Youtube Video

Progressive Bitches

Robert Gibbs recently had an interview in which he complained heavily about the "professional left".

WASHINGTON — The White House was on the defensive Tuesday after press secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at U.S. liberals he dubbed the "professional left," saying some of them should be drug-tested.

Gibbs contended that some progressives critical of President Barack Obama would not be satisfied until the Pentagon was eliminated and Canadian-style health care ushered into the U.S. Some of them would not even be happy if anti-war congressman Dennis Kucinich were president, according to Gibbs.

Progressive groups have been frustrated with Obama almost since the outset of his presidency over issues including the health care bill, which they contend did not go far enough to provide government-run insurance, and Obama's failure to move more quickly to end the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy on gays in the military.

Gibbs' comments appeared Tuesday in The Hill newspaper.

Standing in for Gibbs at the daily White House press briefing, Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton played down the comments, saying Gibbs simply "answered honestly" in a conversation with a reporter.

"Is there ever some frustration from anyone who works in this building about the way it's being covered? Sure," Burton said when asked if Gibbs' comments reflected Obama's views.

"But that doesn't distract us from the very serious work that we've got to do to keep the American people safe and keep the American economy growing. So I would just say that our focus today isn't one article in a Hill publication."

Burton said Gibbs had a sore throat and his absence from the briefing was unrelated to angry criticism from left-wing bloggers and others. One Democratic congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrt, told the Huffington Post that Gibbs should resign.

"I don't think there's any danger of that," said Burton.

Among Gibbs' comments: "I hear these people saying (Obama's) like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy."

It wasn't the first time Gibbs has ticked off Democrats. Last month he angered them by saying on a Sunday talk show that Republicans could take back control of the House in the November elections.


All at MSNBC

This made me kinda realize how much of a bitch progressives are, they take this type of punishment because the Democrats think that they will always vote for them.

Yet, this can't possibly help the Democrats this November. Calling a significant part of your base crazies and druggies is a great way to demotivate them from voting.