Hitlama? Obitler?

Jesse:
I've been thinking about writing something about dishonesty in politics for a while, based on the utter crap being spewed by the American right surrounding their healthcare debate. I'm still going to try to write something, but I absolutely refuse not to post this inspiration video, in which Congressman Barney Frank kicks the (rhetorical) crap out of a crazy lady at a town hall.

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Watch the video. And my message surrounding it is we absolutely have to stand up to these kinds of people. We are at times, in my opinion, too easily cowed by crazies, and by our own liberal sensibilities. These tend to combine in a "oh, let 'em play, they're just crazy" attitude which I think is wrong, wrong, wrong.