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Sen. Joseph McCarthy's (R-Wis) at a March 9, 1950 session of a hearing on McCarthy's charges of Communist infiltration in the state department. McCarthy,...
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Alabama Republican: McCarthy ‘turned out to be right’

03/18/14 11:37 AM—Updated 03/18/14 12:24 PM
By Steve Benen

In Alabama, state Sen. Scott Beason (R), who’s also currently running for Congress, told his local newspaper over the weekend that he has some concerns about a commonly used high school literature textbook (thanks to reader A.M. for the tip).

Beason put his own flag on “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem witch trials. The senator thinks it’s unfair that the textbook attached a sidebar asking students about parallels between the witch trials and Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare of the early 1950s, in which numerous writers and others – including Arthur Miller – were accused of having communist sympathies.​

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McCarthy was right about most of the people he accused, Beason claims.​

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“So we’re comparing the McCarthy investigations of the 1950s, in which he turned out to be right, with the Salem witch hunts,” Beason said.​

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No, Joe McCarthy did not turn out to be right, though it’s alarming how many have come to the same conclusion as Beason.

For quite a while, the American mainstream recognized the fact that McCarthyism was a dangerous mistake – and the Senate was right to censure McCarthy in 1954 – but as Republican politics moved sharply to the right, the former senator’s witch hunt got a second look by much of the conservative movement.

And they decided they liked what they saw.

To be sure, for most of the political world, including many Republicans, McCarthyism is still seen as something of a tragedy. When the word is used, it’s not intended to be complimentary.

But there are exceptions. In Congress, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has endorsed bringing back the House Un-American Activities Committee, while Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told msnbc in 2008 that she supports investigations to determine which members of Congress are “pro-America or anti-America.”

A few years ago in Texas, conservative activists rewriting the state’s curriculum recommended telling students that McCarthy was a hero, “vindicated” by history.

And one year ago next week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was asked whether McCarthy is someone he personally admired. The senator refused to answer.

When thinking about the differences between the contemporary Republican Party and how much it’s changed over the last generation, look no further than those who’ve decided McCarthyism wasn’t so bad after all.

 

Hey, whatever gets you through the day, I guess.

 

So you are saying Lincoln was wrong to free the slaves? BTW, neither FDR, HST, nor JFK would recognize the Democrats today. They would not stand for the lies spewed by the left and they would make good Republican with the economic views compare to the left.

 

The Democrats have progressed beyond Roosevelt, Trueman, and Kennedy while the Republicans have regressed to align themselves with the likes of McCarthy, Hoover, and that great Southern Confederate Presidential wannabe Jefferson Davis.

 

Loverly! So you are finally agreeing that the liberals have regressed so far that Kennedy et al would now qualify as Republicans. That is one you will regret.

 

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In reality what can America do? break off diplomatic relations, stop all trade links with Russia, go to war with Russia. That is about the limit of the options available.
What can the EU do well nothing as they are to reliant upon Russian gas, like the US they have come out with some toothless sanctions.
If you want the Russians out of the Crimea then you are going to have to kick them out.
Any one up for another war? a big one this time round.

Ps they have removed him from the G8, I am sure that Putin will loose sleep over that.

 

Yep. All the brave talk. At least rlm had SOME sort of answer although I'm not sure he knows exactly what "President Romney" would have done because I'm pretty sure Mitt Romney doesn't have as much access to real information as the real President does.

For some reason I don't think getting into WWIII is a very good option.

In the meantime what are other nations really doing. Not just the EU and U.S.?

What do Ecuador and Nigeria have to say for example? Do they consider themselves "world police"? If drawn into a global conflict where would they stand?

How about this scenario. If the U.S. suddenly decided we wanted to annex Ontario Canada what would the Russians do?

Sanctions? Troops? Nothing?

 

It seems to me that all the criticisms so far are the result of people jumping into the nearest phone booth and changing into their Captain Hindsight attire and those that seem to be able to predict outcomes based on what might have been. So in other words, just plain guessing. Are there any valid criticisms? I've yet to hear one. Plenty of Putin worship but that's about it.

 

Seems the shirtless pic is what got the camo underwear crowd all riled up for another circle duck call suck & jerk. If he ever drops trou these guys will dehydrate themselves to death. We should take up a collection

 

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Can't we just let nature take it's course?

It would be the quid pro quo for what they say about the poor, the old, the disabled, and the vets.

 

They can sign up for the ACA and get help, unless of course it is against their morals or some such

 

Easier said than done:

Critical part of ObamaCare website still not fixed

March 26, 2014

Even as the Obama administration struggles to deal with the approaching end of open enrollment for health care exchanges, one critical part of the website has yet to be fixed.

Earlier, administration officials had predicted ObamaCare could be seriously jeopardized if the key back end of healthcare.gov were not fixed ahead of the March 31 enrollment deadline.

The back end of the website is the two-way connection between the government and insurance companies aimed at telling each other who signed up for what.

"Insurance executives just see this as a major nightmare," says Robert Laszewski of Health Policy and Strategy Associates. "I mean, when are we finally going to be able to reconcile all the data, to know who is really covered, who is really paid, and what the insurance companies should be paid for?"

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, raised concerns over it at a recent hearing with Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

“The number that's really important," Doggett said, "is not how many people have enrolled, but how many people have paid their premiums that are actually getting in exchange-base coverage. A number," he said pointedly, "we've never been given."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...re-website-still-not-fixed/?intcmp=latestnews

 

Well they did kick him out of the G8 and what did Putin do?

Well he took no notice and is thinking of starting up his own version of it