Republican "Fifth Column" Strikes Financial Commission. Are YOU Next?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/rj-eskow/33184/republican-fifth-column-strikes-financial-commission-are-you-next

A sleeper cell of four Republicans struck the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission this week, escalating what had previously been a campaign of covert obstruction into an overt act of sabotage. That act should be seen for what it is: A "denial of service attack" on bipartisan cooperation and public deliberation, designed to destroy the Commission's work and discredit its findings.

The subversives also released a document which they characterized without any apparent embarrassment as a "primer." You may remember that "primers" are the simple books used to teach small children, like the Dick and Jane reading series, My Little Book of Dinosaurs, or So You Want to be a Lobbyist.

But the most important book the saboteurs used was the Republican playbook -- for disrupting, subverting, and destroying government institutions. Pay attention to that playbook. It's been used before, and it will be used again.

"Fifth column" -- noun: A group of people working secretly to help the enemy of the country or organization they are in.
-- Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary

In a now-famous quote, President Obama said this to the 13 Bankers who provided the title for Simon Johnson's book: "I'm the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks." We now know that the Republican appointees to Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission had pitchforks, too, which they planned to plant in their fellow Commissioners' backs when the right time came.

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