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by smkovalinsky | September 30, 2009 at 07:31 am

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Florida Democratic congressman refuses to apologize for incendiary remarks:

In one of those twists of fate, GOP leaders are now waiting for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to condemn the incendiary words of a Florida Democratic congressman who they view as making the very types of remarks which Pelosi said, when coming from the mouths of Republicans, would "lead to violence":

A Democratic congressman from Florida is refusing to apologize for saying that Republicans want Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick.

Rep. Alan Grayson made his comments on the House floor Tuesday night while criticizing Republican health care proposals as a "blank piece of paper."

"If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: die quickly," he said. "That's right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."

His remarks weren't spontaneous: He reinforced the point with signs saying the same thing.

Republicans are likening Grayson's remark to South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's widely criticized shout of "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's address to Congress earlier this month. They say Democrats should insist that Grayson apologize just as they insisted Wilson should.

Grayson, a first-term Democrat known for being provocative, represents a Republican-leaning district around Orlando and was already among the GOP's top targets for the 2010 elections.

Ken Spain, spokesman for the House Republican campaign arm, said Democrats should be "lining up to call on him to apologize."

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djermano

at 08:56 on September 30th, 2009

Republicanism is a disease..it is contagious and should be quarantined. We have a vaccine. and anticipate to have a cure for this lethal disease...

Rev. Jermano

QueensHart

at 12:45 on September 30th, 2009

Very respectfully Rev.Jermano any 'ism' is a disease. Why do most here only say Republicanism? Jung insisted that humankind's consists in its loss of individuality in a mass society, under a highly centralized government. Only thru the conscious cultivation of individual awareness, personal moral choices ,spiritual and psychological self knowledge can these dangers be avoided! Americans have wandered a long way from the founders of Hermetic America. All the many collective underpinnings of many isms subscribe and limit freedom. of thought and action. We all are missing the point by pointing at the other guy. It is easily seen here in the comments of rage toward anyone who does not agree.

Depth psychology has been in existence almost a hundred years now but people will not own or look at the fact that there is an unconcious that is very involved in all that they do. The unacknowledged impulseses are then repressed and distorted and instead of being expressed in an acceptable manner we see the expression in the mass psychoses This is what gave rise to theGerman and Soviet Socialism and communism. It is also the result of drugs and other addicitions people cannot control..smoking, overeating, over spendiing, over religious,...over anything to escape the true self...being still and knowing the God within...

If we do not own our own stuff and work on our own salvation...........literally inventory and take up our own cross when it comes...and then be connected to the divine...our planet is doomed.

Until everyone can say , yes everyone needs to see their own faults and stop looking at the grass on the other side

Roy C

at 09:26 on September 30th, 2009

Making extreme comments that stereotype your political rivals, recasting them as enemies, no longer rivals, is inimical to the process of conducting a democratic state. You move the discourse to a preparation of a social and then real civil war, a tactic used, for example, by fascists and communists in Italy both before and after WWII, who did agree on one thing: bourgeois democracy must go.

Stereotyping your rivals is akin to racism in that it fails to recognize the heterogenous nature of any political movement.

Clearly, given the plethora of faults and group evil endemic to the world, when we cannot see our own devilry, we only see the others' devilry . Projection. State of denial.

As the Muslims say, in a story taken from the Jews: Satan was condemned to hell because Satan refused to bow to the Divine in Mankind because he would only bow to the Divine itself. This is "idealism".

Roy C

at 11:58 on September 30th, 2009

No, not everyone in the NP community. Only the leftists caught in their self-referential politically correct belief system.

Roy C

at 12:14 on September 30th, 2009

And the hypocrisy would be ???

Roy C

at 12:50 on September 30th, 2009

All the major religions and all the major political parties are tragically flawed. All the major religions, while flawed, have become compatible with democracy save one. And that is not the fault of its members, but of its own elite.

At one time, the church was against Freedom of Religion in Catholic countries and the Vatican only supported the notion in Protestant countries. That is no longer the Vatican's position.

There are mosques in Rome, but in Mecca? In Mecca there are no Christian churches, no Buddhist temples, no Jewish synagogues, and that is even though Mecca was originally one of the principal cities for Jews in the Arabian peninsula.

Jews were held in high esteem by Mohammed until they rejected him and refused conversion. Originally, a Muslim prayed facing Jerusalem.

Until the Muslims permit Mecca to host other religions' places of worship, there will be no peace between Islam and other religions.

djermano

at 18:59 on September 30th, 2009

I fail to see how Freedom of Religion brings peace. The truth brings peace, and freedom is certainly no thesaurus to truth. .. and tis not to say we force people to go to Church.....The only thing Freedom of Religion accomplishes is the ability to see the flaws in the other religion, to validate yours. Now if we had the freedom of Politics in the US..then we would be getting somewhere. Now I understand why the US offers freedom of religion, to take the eyes off the real tyrant and dictator the US government.

Rev. Jermano

Roy C

at 19:05 on September 30th, 2009

Each religion is part of the process of bringing about peace. At some future time, there will be essentially on one religious outlook, but, while we work on the truth, tolerance is necessary.

It causes friction and that is why tempers must be controlled. An act of grace.