"The Republican Fascist Party."

[elfs]

So, I've got a question. Without asking the Democratic National Committee to vote on it, should we start referring to the Republicans as "The Republican Fascist Party?" As it turns out, the Republican did not pass their much-ridiculed resolution, instead passing one that accuses the Democrats of "pushing our nation toward socialism." (Hey, did anyone see Eric Cantor (R-VA) and his recent statement that, if the government is going to hand out Pell grants for students, it ought to optimize those grant amounts toward majors the government feels it needs more of? Now that's a socialist idea! And this guy is the spokesman for the Republican's "smaller government" wing!?)

But, y'know, the voice of the Republican's "national security" wing is going around saying stuff like this in public:

And when they (our enemies) see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, or whether foreign terrorists have constitutional rights, they don't stand back in awe of our legal system and wonder whether they had misjudged us all along. Instead the terrorists see just what they were hoping for - our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.

In short, Dick Cheney believes that debate, democracy and the rule of law are themselves "weakness" and present terrorists with "opportunity." What this country really needs is a strong man, a leader, a dictator, a tyrant (sorry, finished season one of HBO's Rome last night), to show those evil terrorists what's what about America. What's great about us is the industrial might we can leech dry for generation after generation, not our freedoms. Dick Cheney and his ilk hate us for our freedoms.

Why shouldn't we call that "The Republican Fascist Party?"