Chief political columnist for Politico Roger Simon had a unique answer to the government shutdown and debt ceiling impasse: kill Ted Cruz and John Boehner. He tweeted this on Monday:
Q: If Cruz & Boehner were on a sinking ship, who would be saved? A: America. My latest column: http://t.co/oEJqldncwF
— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) October 14, 2013
His column pushed the same meme, complete with a picture of the infamous dude with confederate flag at yesterday’s Million Vet March. The headline: “Government shutdown unleashes racism.” Here’s an excerpt:
Question: If Ted Cruz and John Boehner were both on a sinking ship, who would be saved?
Answer: America.
Harsh? Look around you at what is happening to America and you will see harsh. I am not talking about closed parks and monuments. I am talking about the funds cut to nearly 9 million mothers and young children for food, breastfeeding support and infant formula.
That is harsh. Making a war against babies is harsh….
This weekend, racism came out of the closet. (Which assumes it has ever been in the closet.)
Protesters marched through the streets of Washington on Sunday with a Confederate flag and then a protester lounged against the White House fence with one. Displaying the Confederate flag in front of a home occupied by a black family was meant to send a particular, and particularly repellent, message.
The answer to one idiot with a Confederate flag, according to Simon, is to kill the Speaker of the House and the sitting junior Senator from Texas. But the right is extreme.