The OFA = “the brown shirts” meme never dies

After my Twitter exchange with some fierce anti-gun control zealots earlier this week, in addition to being called a “freedom-hating communist”, I was also accused yet again of being a Nazi:

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@Dagny_Galt, I see that @Eclectablog is a brown-shirt…openly states he’s an #OFA community organizer…Sad, just sad. #NRA #guncontrol

This is not the first time an OFA volunteer has been called a brown shirt, nor will it be the last. I wrote extensively about this last year in a blog called MI House candidate: “OFA is the equiv. of the brown shirts”.

I also posted the Wikipedia description of the brown shirts (aka, “Sturmabteilung” or SA.):

The SA carried out numerous acts of violence against socialist groups throughout the 1920s, typically in minor street-fights called Zusammenstöße (‘collisions’).…

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The Michigan US House members love them some Affordable Care Act repeal

Yesterday I posted the results of an analysis I did of all 242 Republicans in the US House of Representatives. I looked at the bills & resolutions each of these men and women had sponsored and cosponsored. What I found was that, on average, 46% of the bills any individual sponsored or co-sponsored was related to the partial or complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

There are 13 bills related to the repeal of the ACA and 3 resolutions. They are listed, with links, on my blog.

I thought I’d take a look at how the Michigan GOP delegation measured up (since I’m from Michigan and all.…


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HALF the bills the average GOPer supports are for repealing Affordable Care Act

The Republicans have now been in office two weeks so I thought it was worth taking stock of what they’ve accomplished. I’ve just completed a rather in-depth analysis of the bills and resolutions that all 242 GOP members of Congress (not the Senate) have either sponsored or co-sponsored.

What I found was that, on the average, 46% of the bills/resolutions an average GOP member of Congress has sponsored or co-sponsored are directly related to either repealing all or some of the Affordable Care Act or to defunding it so that it will fail.

Nearly half. 13 (maybe 14) bills are involved.…


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The inauguration of Barack Obama in pictures and music

My wife and I were fortunate enough to attend President Obama’s inauguration two years ago today. Her photomosaic poster of Barack Obama, “Out of Many, We Are One” that appeared in TIME magazine had sold well and was being given out as a gift at the Michigan Ball held at the Museum of American Heritage. We also miraculously got tickets to the inauguration itself. Not only that, we scored tickets to the MoveOn.org party.

The enhanced slideshow below, “Two in Two Million”, is composed of hundreds of photos my wife, Anne C. Savage, took during our trip. It includes amazing music (Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer, Thievery Corporation and the Dixie Chicks), pictures from the Michigan Ball and the MoveOn party, the D.C.…


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Did you hear the one about Obama putting up “APPLAUSE” signs?

Holy crap, are you effing kidding me???

I guess this is the reason I don’t read the Hot Air blog. One of their bloggers actually wrote this about President Obama’s speech at the Tucson memorial last week:

[T]he White House wrote the speech, and apparently added “applause” indicators into Obama’s speech that the university put on the Jumbotron in their captioning for the audience.

What that actually was, believe it or not, was closed captioning indicating that the President received applause — a live, on-the-fly transcription for the hearing-impaired. Not that he was calling for applause.

Ed Morrissey is an idiot.…


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Call your member of Congress NOW! Protect our Progress!

This is a crucial time to contact your member of Congress regarding the Republican’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. You can do so by clicking HERE.

Call them and tell them that you want them to vote against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Need some reasons why? How about because, despite their ridiculous name for the bill (“Repeal the Job-Killing Health Care Law”), the Associated Press and McClatchy News Service are both suggesting quite the opposite is true. In fact, a report from Harvard economist David Cutler says that jobs will be lost if the law is repealed.…


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Eclectablog: Freedom-hating communist

I’ve learned this week that I am, not kidding, a “freedom-hating communist”. Why? Because I have no problem limiting Americans’ right to bear arms. I’m not talking about taking away Americans’ right to bear arms. I’m talking about limiting that right. Sort of along the lines of limiting the right to freedom of expression by making it a crime to yell “FIRE!” in a crowded movie theater.

It all started with my tweet “Apparently we can’t restrict high-capacity ammo clips because it would annoy target shooters”.

Someone going by the handle “SomeGrit”, responded, “No, it would limit our right to bear arms that’s why.…


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Quote of the day

I’m guessing we’ll be hearing a lot more of this over the next two years:

Back in Ohio, almost everybody says, ‘Oh, you’ve got to cut spending.’ But then they say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you meant my spending.’

I hope that attitude bites you on your small-minded little Tea Partier asses.

I’m just sayin’…


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