Come and see the violence inherent in the system

In what has to be some kind of record, American Republican congressman Paul Broun is warning of an incipient Obama dictatorship just 1 week after his election -- 71 days before Obama is to take office:

A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship.

"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."

Evidently, Broun thinks Marxism, Soviet communism, socialism, fascism, and National Socialism are all equivalent (well, they're all bad, right?) Evidently he thinks Barack Obama's liberal jackboot squads are already being covertly assembled in secret Massachusetts training camps. Evidently, being an ignorant hysterical boob is still a virtue -- for the remaining Republicans in the US congress anyway.

You know, I had a funny feeling 'conservatives' would suddenly remember their distaste for executive power, as soon as it was time for a liberal to be the executive. I do believe this was the first ironic squawk.

Preview of next week's issues: Oh, you mean you don't want the liberal government listening to your phone calls? What's that? You don't believe in torture, and secret prisons, and imprisonment without trial, and foreign military adventures? Gosh, we must have misunderstood you, all along.