Madness On the Right

As you probably remember President Obama wants to expand AmeriCorps in a big way and about a week ago, the Senate voted to expand national community service programs. This followed on the House passing a similar measure. When the President signs the bill AmeriCorps will grow from 75,000 to 250,000 potential slots.

As usual, progressive policy has the wingnuts going apeshit calling it a new "Hitler Youth" and such. As I mentioned in an earlier post the chief nutcase is not to be outdone, Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) calls the other wingnuttery and raises them a re-education camp or two.

This was Bachmann's response over the weekend to the Serve America Act:

"It's under the guise of, quote, 'volunteerism.' But it's not volunteers at all. It's paying people to do work on behalf of government. [...]

"I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums."

Like her buddy on the FOX Nutwork Glenn Beck, Madam Bachmann feels free to just make stuff up in order to incite the revolution she so dearly wants. First of all, the bills in both the House and Senate were largely bipartisan and recieved support from both sides. Secondly, AmeriCorps is a volunteer program and nothing in either the House or Senate bills require participation.

What you are seeing is wingnuts without an enemy. The progressive wind blowing in this country has them going crazy because there is nothing they can grab on to that makes a sensible argument against programs like Americorp. It's good for the youth of this nation to have an outlet for community service if they choose. Since there is nothing inherently evil in this or other progressive legislation coming down the pipe, they are forced to lie about them and even make up completely false premises like military police and taking away all the guns. Lies are all they have. They can't argue against these things strictly on merit so they have to resort to desperate lies and hope the dittoheads and other wingnuts swallow them and follow along.

The frightening thing about this is that some of them are swallowing the lies and we are seeing the results in the news pretty much everyday.