Right-wing attendees at Heritage event applaud the idea that Obama is a domestic enemy

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Right-wing attendees at Heritage event applaud the idea that Obama is a ‘domestic enemy.’

By Faiz Shakir at 12:39 pm

This morning, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) delivered a national security screed at the Heritage Foundation, a DC-based conservative think tank. Politicizing the recent failed terror attack in NYC, Cantor said, “America is at risk of slipping into the type of false sense of security which prevailed before that September morning.” He attacked Obama for “apolog on behalf of America” and for being “naïve.” Cantor’s hyperbolic address stirred the passions of the crowd. One attendee at the Heritage event asked Cantor why Obama should not be considered a “domestic enemy”:

QUESTION: My question is – and this is something I personally don’t understand – if it’s a naïve question then I apologize: in light of what Obama has done to leave us vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to outside enemies, and to slight our allies, how (pause) – what would he have to do differently to be defined as a domestic enemy? (applause)

CANTOR: Listen, let me respond very forthright to that: you know, no one thinks the President is a domestic enemy. (boos)

After the anonymous attendee asked his question, the crowd applauded and laughed. Cantor even smiled before responding to the question. Because he refused to call Obama a “domestic enemy,” many in the crowd treated Cantor to a smattering of boos.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. These guys are goooood. Try applauding with your head up your ass.

I'll bet that's not as easy as it looks.

[lib2DaBone]

2. Republicans LOVE war.. in any shape or form....

as long as they are not accountable and do not have to pay the costs.

They also love GAWWD...

[havbrush]

20. Rethugs and war

Agreed. And also as long as they don't have to serve. After all, joining the military is for somebody else, they could get hurt. But they support the troops. They tell us that all the time.

[defendandprotect]

3. This is all financed by right wing money . . . unfortunately really dumb people

often believe what they are being told by the right wing -- !!!

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Would you smile if someone asked you that question??

These people are scary crazy.

[Angry Dragon]

5. How can he say this country was built on conservative traditions??

If that was the case then they never would have rebelled against the English. They would have just gone along with wht ever the King wanted.

If anything they were "PROGRESSIVES" One does not rebel if they are conservative...stick that up their asses.

[GreenTea]

9. Republicans simply outright lie, smear, distort & repeat the lie over & over

and the corporate media NEVER calls them on it...so the sheep believe it's true and repeat the lies to their family & friend who are also uninformed republican sheep - and on & on.

But you already know this!

[Angry Dragon]

10. So how come the democratic leaders do not call them out on this??

[GreenTea]

11. You tell me I don't have a clue....

Spineless perhaps...Dems don't get the coverage, don't want to rock the boat...I don't know.

I do know people like Thom Hartmann & Mike Malloy always make it a point to speak out and tell all who listen this was NOT founded on bullshit "conservatism" nor Judea Christianity as republican try and force down peoples throats, nor a country build for and by the monarchy-loving elitist racist.

[Angry Dragon]

12. Perhaps of losing their power

I really do not know but I think there is a fear within them

[DRex]

6. Well, at least they'll admit he's domestic.

Small steps, people.

[GreenTea]

7. Sick racist fucking republicans.

[jimlup]

8. The right wing is finding it hard to control their roaring rable.

"Beware the trampling roar of the bewildered herd"

[lobodons]

13. Cantor has a point...

Sort of. The majority of Americans wanted Single Payer or at the very least a strong Public Option. The majority of Americans want a STRONG Wall Street bill. The majority of Americans do not approve of Obama moving to the Center and compromising with uncompromising members of the PON (party of no) Party.

[olegramps]

18. Cantor has a point? Cantor is an obstructionist bastard.

[Hulk]

14. cantor is such a shameless pig...

I'd almost like to give this snearing pig the power to run this country for awhile, if I didn't think he would f*ck it up beyond repair.

What a turd for brains. Thank you VA for sending such a dumb ass, pussy smiling freak to DC on your behalf.

This nation really is fUcked up!

[LarryNM]

15. It's Obvious Who Are the Real Enemies of Humanity n/t

[oh08dem]

16. Eric "No-he-Can't-or"

Hey, Mr. CANTor who was in charge for almost 8 months BEFORE September 11?

The guy who was supposed to be in charge was spending time at White House West pickin' shrooms off cowpies.

After 8 years of cowboy diplomacy someone needs to apologize, and it should be them. It's too bad the teabags they hang from their heads aren't brain cells because if they were they would understand that.

[bulloney]

17. A few years ago I visited the Hermitage Foundation to pick up one of their reports on farm policy.

You could literally smell the stupid in the air when you walked in that building.

[LongTomH]

19. The Heritage Foundation: A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villiany

The Heritage Foundation was one of the 'Think Tanks' established decades ago to destroy the gains that the middle and working classes made after FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society. Bill Moyers said it eloquently in his speech and article: This is the Fight of Our Lives:

I know, I know: this sounds very much like a call for class war. But the class war was declared a generation ago, in a powerful paperback polemic by William Simon, who was soon to be Secretary of the Treasury. He called on the financial and business class, in effect, to take back the power and privileges they had lost in the depression and new deal. They got the message, and soon they began a stealthy class war against the rest of society and the principles of our democracy. They set out to trash the social contract, to cut their workforces and wages, to scour the globe in search of cheap labor, and to shred the social safety net that was supposed to protect people from hardships beyond their control. Business Week put it bluntly at the time: "Some people will obviously have to do with less....it will be a bitter pill for many Americans to swallow the idea of doing with less so that big business can have more."

The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand." This is a lie. What's happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us.

To create the intellectual framework for this takeover of public policy they funded conservative think tanks -- The Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution, and the American Enterprise Institute -- that churned out study after study advocating their agenda.

Now, almost any time TV noise, er, news networks need someone to comment on any story, they invite someone from one of these right wing Think Tanks. Naomi Klein nailed the beautifully: "People paid to think by the makers of tanks." They dominate the public discourse, even in discussion of the future. Most futurist conferences will include speakers from these Think Tanks; frequently, a right wing 'institute' will sponsor the event. Do a Google on "Heritage Foundation" AND nanotechnology - see how many hits you get.