Them bad ol' leftists are at it again.
Yes, Florida Rep. Alan Grayson went too far comparing the Tea Party in toto to the KKK.
But I must wonder exactly who in the Tea Party has standing to ask for an apology? Allen "Obamacare is slavery" West? Sarah "Paling around with terrorists" Palin?
The left dashes off the end of the rhetorical leash once every few years. The last one I remember was the "General Betray Us" ad that MoveOn did. That was way over the line, and I cut off sending money to MoveOn for quite a while over it.
Grayson is perhaps best known before this for his visual aid during the debate on the legislation that finally became Obamacare.
The Republican Health Care Plan:1. Don't get sick
The Republican Health Care Plan:2. And if you do get sick
The Republican Health Care Plan:That's hardball but it was and is fair comment. The only suggestion I remember from the GOP was allowing the purchase of health insurance across state lines, a supremely terrible idea, certain to give us the same race to the bottom we see in state chartering of corporations.3. DIE QUICKLY!
But, yes, I think Mr. Grayson went too far this time, just as the left does every couple of years.
Meanwhile, the right calls Mr. Obama a socialist and a Nazi at once, a Muslim and a follower of Christian liberation theology at once. They claim he's not an American, that Bill Ayers wrote his books, that he never helmed the Harvard Law Review. They picket the White House with the Confederate battle flag, paint Hitler mustaches on Mr. Obama's picture, compare Obamacare to the Fugitive Slave Act....
Grayson's faux pas is hardly a moral equivalence.
The only basis for saying Grayson went too far is we are better than them, and we need to stay that way.