Your mainstream Republican party ladies and gentlemen
by digby
Here’s the Florida dreamboat Marco Rubio:
“It’s not about closing down mosques. It’s about closing down any place — whether it’s a cafe, a diner, an internet site — any place where radicals are being inspired,” Rubio said on Fox News’ The Kelly File on Thursday night when asked if he agreed with Trump. “The bigger problem we have is our inability to find out where these places are, because we’ve crippled our intelligence programs, both through unauthorized disclosures by a traitor, in Edward Snowden, or by some of the things this president has put in place with the support even of some from my own party to diminish our intelligence capabilities.”
“So whatever facility is being used — it’s not just a mosque — any facility that’s being used to radicalize and inspire attacks against the United States, should be a place that we look at,” he continued.
So, you now, this is where we are now. We’ve got the media suspending reporters for tweeting “lady liberty bowed her head” after the House voted yesterday to stop Syrian refugees frm coming into the country, even as many of their biggest stars have been behaving like a bunch of hysterical schoolgirls 24/7 ever since Paris. We have the front-runner of the Republican party talking about he necessity to “do things that were unthinkable even a year ago” and “bombing the shit out of them.” He also said we would have to have Muslims register with the government to be tracked by a database.(No word on whether it will be necessary to sew some kind of symbol on their clothing…)
Now we have the leading establishment candidate saying we have to “shut down” not just mosques but websites, cafes, diners — anyplace where radicals are being inspired. He left out libraries and book stores but surely that was an oversight.
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