Update on Paul Broun, the baffled bozo from Georgia

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We've written about Rep. Paul Broun, the wingnut from Georgia on a couple of occasions. You may recall he introduced a bill in Congress that would prohibit the sale of "pornography" (e.g. Playboy and Penthouse) on military bases in order to protect the minds and morals of our young fighting men and women.

Broun, a typical Repugnican sleazebag, also voted against SCHIP (providing health care for children).

You'll also remember that he's one of the three morons who went to the Capitol the other day to anoint the doorway through which Obama will pass on his inauguration, during which time he prayed that God would "stir the heart of our new president that President Obama will listen and will heed God's direction."

And who better to tell us what God's "direction" is than Paul Broun.


Here's a couple of things from digby that I hadn't known:

1. About a week after Obama's election, Broun commented that by calling for a national civilian security force, the President-elect had shown the world that he was a "radical Marxist Nazi socialist comparable to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin."

Broun told the AP, "It may sound a bit crazy and offbase, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force. 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. That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

The man is certifiable! Do we not provide help for Congresspeople who are crazy?

2. While I am aware that Broun is a christianist wingnut, I didn't know how he became one. He "attributes his conservative transformation to the wonder working power of Jesus. Broun's born-again moment arrived in 1986, during the height of the Reagan Revolution, while he toiled as a doctor in rural Georgia, struggling to keep afloat during the first year of his marriage. He has suffered through several 'broken marriages and episodes of broken relationships and financial problems,' Broun recalled during a November 2007 speech on the House floor. While watching an NFL game, Broun became entranced by a 'gentleman with this big type of hair wig on' holding a 'John 3:16' sign. 'As I sat there in my office that fall trying to figure out life, I picked up the Bible and read John 3:16,' Broun said. He suddenly transformed into a true believer, a cadre of the Christian right."

(The guy with the wig was Rollen Stewart, "an evangelical fanatic" who found his way to numerous sporting events with his John 3:16 sign. At the present time, Stewart is "serving three consecutive sentences in jail on kidnapping charges as well as minor sentences for stink bomb attacks.")


Does Rollen Stewart bring to mind Tim Tebow? It should. And it should show us just how dangerous it is for football players like Tebow to paint Bible verses on their cheeks. A moron like Broun might be tempted to look up the verse and become an even bigger moron and get elected to Congress, and holy crap, what a mess that would be!


Check out digby's article here.

Paul Broun - Repugnican twit from Georgia

You may remember Paul Broun, a Republican congressman from the state of Georgia. His last 15 minutes of fame came awhile back when he tried to forbid our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan from reading "porn," which he defined as magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse.

Broun, you see, loves Jesus, and has concluded that he must impose his particular religious beliefs on society as a whole - to help save the world, you know.

Broun is back in the news, confirming that he is not just a twit from Georgia, but a truly evil man. Why is it so many of these born-againers stink of sewage and rot?

Broun is claiming "President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship." The reason is because back in July, Obama made a speech which suggested that we establish a civilian national security force. An Obama spokesman said that this referred to a proposal for a civilian reserve corps "that could handle postwar reconstruction efforts such as re-building infrastructure -- an idea endorsed by the Bush administration."

Broun, however, thinks he knows better than Obama what Obama meant. This kind of civilian national security force, says Broun, is "exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did.

"When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."

So, to Broun, Obama is either like Hitler or Stalin?


The man is obviously an ignorant moron, and exemplifies how difficult it will be for the Democrats to "reach across the aisle" and work in a bipartisan manner for the good of the country. How do you work with someone who's as nuts as this clown?

If Broun is really worried about a military force, he ought to be fussing about the fact that Bush has, for the first time in history, and in aanother show of disdain for our Constitution, put U.S. Army combat troops on the streets of America to help keep "law and order" in time of crisis.

Whether that is Hitlerian or Marxist is really irrelevant. It is scary as all hell!


Update: Broun has apologized for calling Obama a Marxist. No word yet as to whether he will apologize for comparing Obama to Hitler.