People should watch C-Span more often, because it is amazing what people babble about to pad their campaign commertials. Today I was watching because Ms. Eleanor Norton Holmes was trying to talk about why D.C. citizens should have the right to vote in the elections.
But, Mr. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, after very graciously giving 5 minutes to someone else to finish up, and 3 minutes to say that Republicans think D.C.ers should just vote in the Maryland elections, has spent the rest of his allotted 60 minutes to talk about how evil Communists were. Now, it was funny enough when he said that Stalin and Pol Pot believed in communism (if they believed in anything but themselves, I’d die of shock), and called Communism a religion that people just ignore the atrocities said in it’s name (like Christianity is blood free). But then he started talking about how communists could be democracy by force, and how great that Ronald Reagan was to support those freedom fighters in places like Nicaragua to support democracy, and that Reagan’s great legacy was the “stability of South American countries”. He gave a quick eulogy to the “heroes” of the Cold War: Dr. Fred Schwarz, and Constantine Menges.
*pause to wipe the tears away*
After talking about how great democracy was in then countries, he’s talking about how terrible it is that people are voting in “socialists” in places like El Salvador, and how there’s going to be a “negative” relationship with the United States when the elect people who hate America. Now, he’s talking about economic sanctions…. but this kind of language is chilling to me. “Vote who we want you to vote, or we won’t be so nice to you”. This kind of language seems to be seeding the soil of our new “enemies”. Especially when he keeps saying things like “these people were celebrating when 9-11″ happened.
He keeps sounding like he’s a mob boss. “Nice country you have, developing and such, hope something doesn’t happen to it”.
He summed up with this:
“We wish the people of El Salvador well, we wish them a successful election, we hope they will remain friends of the United States…. some in Congress want us to pass a resolution to not adjust our economic assistance…but they’re misguided. If the people of El Salvador don’t vote to be our friends…. we won’t be. Latin America does not need a Marxist/Lennist government, even without any guns, but a free democracy.”