\"Terrorist\" is the new \"Nazi.\"<\/p>\n
I'm sure y'all already know that Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives have skipped town to prevent a quorum and thereby obstruct a Republican bill. But the reason I'm mentioning it is a quote from an A.P. article<\/a>:<\/p>\n \"They're legislative terrorists and their leaving today is a weapon of mass obstruction, blocking hundreds of pieces of legislation,\" Republican Rep. Dan Branch said Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I'm tickled by \"weapon of mass obstruction\"; that's kinda clever. But the use of \"legislative terrorists\" suggests to me that the term \"terrorist\" has already become a generic extreme insult, much as \"Nazi\" is used to refer to anyone who advocates stronger control over anything.<\/p>\n Does the gentleman from Texas actually mean to suggest that the Democrats are, say, slaughtering civilians? Why not just call them \"babykillers\" and have done with it?<\/p>\n\n
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