Red storm rising: Right-wing stoking fears of gun-toting IRS agents

[babylonsister]

Red storm rising: Right-wing stoking fears of gun-toting IRS agents

March 23, 2010 4:09 pm ET by Brian Frederick


As conservatives begin to come to grips with the passage of the health care law (and their failure to defeat it), they are -- predictably -- reacting poorly. Following weeks and months of failed rhetoric portraying passage of the law as "the end of America as you know it," some conservatives are still in denial, while others are stoking fears about what's coming.

What's coming? IRS "thugs coming with their guns" to force you into socialized medicine.

If it's not clear by now, it should be: Right-wing reaction to health care reform has the potential to become violent.

Fox Business Network's Stuart Varney took to Fox News this morning and claimed that the IRS is going to "hire 17,000 new agents and spend $10 billion so that they will check that you have the insurance that you're supposed to have." Varney's number of agents is based (shock) on a Republican estimate of the bill and the CBO actually projected that the costs to the IRS would be between $5 billion and $10 billion over the next 10 years.

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[rfranklin]

1. why don't we outsource that task to Blackwater?

Those people will need jobs as we wind down in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[leftofcool]

4. How about not!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wapsie B]

2. I can remember the hysteria whipped up with the Disabilities Act.

It was if the business world would be ground to a halt and that firms would go bankrupt trying to comply with the new law. :eyes:

[leftofcool]

3. The revenuers are comin'! The revenuers are comin'!

Hide the still boys!

[howaboutme]

5. Can't yell fire in crowded theater

We have laws about inciting the masses to panic, but why doesn't it apply to politics and talk radio and this is where it is needed. No talk radio show should ever have the right to spew lies and create anger and use our airwaves to incite the masses without countervailing opinions. If these shows were required to have another face to face and opposite opinion it would serve to inform the public instead of inciting them.

[babylonsister]

6. Excellent points, and belated welcome to DU. Why isn't this

considered inciting violence and why is it allowed?

[Cal33]

7. The NeoCon Leadership has too many sick sociopaths. This

is what people with "anti-social personality disorder" do.
Pathological lying is one of their disguishing traits.

[elehhhhna]

8. ...better stay away from copperhead road

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Tucker Carlson is already doing this:

via TBogg:

http://static1.firedoglake.com.nyud.net:8080/29/files/2010/03/Screen-shot-2010-03-22-at-6.49.23-PM1.png

(And you're now thinking "so that's what happened to the little fucker", aren't you?)