Scared Revolutionaries

by digby

You just have to love these brave patriotic conservatives. They run from the legitimate press into the arms of their propaganda outlets and now they won’t even allow political rivals to be in the same room with them:

Yesterday the Jim Thorpe Museum was host to the annual President’s Forum, a gathering of University and College Presidents, the Board of Regents, and a handful of other dignitaries and invited guests. Speaking before this distinguished audience were the two candidates for governor, Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins, and Congresswoman Mary Fallin. The format for the event was that Fallin would first deliver remarks, then take questions, and then Askins would do the same.

However, just before she was to begin, Fallin made a strange request of the event organizers; she didn’t want the Lieutenant Governor in the room while she spoke. Nor did she want any of Jari’s staff in the room. In fact, she even scanned the crowd for faces that might be unfriendly, to see who else she could have ejected. Apparently she didn’t like the look on State Senator Mike Morgan’s face, because she told the event organizers she would not take the podium until he had left the room.

Senator Morgan was a guest of the event. He was seated at a table enjoying his lunch, until he was unceremoniously asked to gather up his things and leave the room until it became Jari’s turn to address the crowed, at which point he was welcome to re-take his seat.

These are the people swaggering around with guns and talking about revolution. But they’re just scared authoritarians underneath it all placing their faith in the Big Security State to do their dirty work for them.

Lucky for them we do have a big security state for which spending cuts are untouchable. Old people are going to be starving in the streets before anyone even thinks of cutting the Homeland Security budget. So they’re very, very safe …