I guess the new Republican talking point is "Banana Republic".

[GentryDixon]

I have heard it from three different Repubs in the last two hours.

These people need a new shtick.

[originalpckelly]

1. And what kind of nation allows it's leaders to torture people in secret?

[Kitty Herder]

3. My thought exactly.

Look who's talking. When it comes to accusing people of using banana republic-like tactics, the Republicans really should keep their mouths shut.

[originalpckelly]

6. And what kind of limited government can torture people in secret?

They are such hypocrites.

[Echo In Light]

8. Never...that's the point; Rightists almost always project: imputing to others....

...that which they themselves are guilty of, more fully represent, and are unconsciously fearful of.

[cliffordu]

2. well.......

Down to the Banana Republic
Down to the tropical sun
Go the expatriated Americans
Hoping to find some fun

Some of them go for the sailn'
Called by the lure of the sea
Trying to find what is ailing
From living in the land of the free

Some of them are running from lovers
Leaving no forward address
Some of them are running tons of ganga
Some are running from the IRS

And late at night you will find them
In the cheap hotels & bars
Hustling the senoritas while they dance beneath the stars

Spending those renegade pesos
On a bottle of rum & a lime
Singing, give me some words I can dance to
Or a melody that rhymes

First you learn the native customs
Soon a word of Spanish or two
But you know that you cannot trust them
Cause they know they can't trust you

Expatriated Americans feeling so all alone
Telling themselves the same lies
That they told themselves back home
Down to the Banana Republic things aren't as warm as they seem
When none of the natives are buying any second hand American dreams

[katanalori]

4. they have a NEW talking point!

Just heard that Steele wants to "officially" change the name "Democrat" to "Socialist!"That is correct, he wants the Parties to be referred to as 'Republican" and "Socialist." So sayeth Steel, and I am sure that Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Rush et.al. will adopt this lingo from here on. They are bitter nutcases, no doubt about it.

[Webster Green]

5. More projection from the party of pathetic losers.

They have done their best to turn the U.S. into a shit-hole banana-republic.

[Supersedeas]

7. shades of the stimulus cartoon

[Stevenmarc]

9. Oh damn I was hoping the Republicans knew about a Sale!

[lpbk2713]

10. So now they're thinking about bananas?

Right after their tea bagging episode?

Freud would enjoy the hell out of this.

[JonLP24]

11. I always thought Banana Republic was clothes

But learning what a Banana Republic has lead me to this interesting article with this ironic paragraph.

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And so Obama's refusal to investigate war crimes is itself against the law. And so torture's cancerous route through the legal and constitutional system continues, contaminating the future as well as the past, rendering the US incapable of upholding Geneva against other nations, because it has violated Geneva itself, and giving to every tyrant on the planet a justification for the torture of prisoners.

In this scenario, America becomes a city on a hill, where the rule of law is optional and torture acceptable if parsed into legal memos that do not pass the most basic professional sniff-test.

America becomes a banana republic.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/obama-bush-and-the-rule-of-law.html

[JonLP24]

12. So either way Obama is accused by someone of running a banana republic

[Bluerthanblue]

13. so all they've got is name calling? that's it??? wow- they must

be pretty desperate.

I think this is actually good news.

[rucky]

14. That about sums up the Bush legacy. n/t

[Avalux]

15. Whose leaders wear mirrored sunglasses?

That's part of the new talking point too - heard the big Dick say it yesterday. lol.

[stillcool]

16. What do you call it when there is..

a ruling class, that is lawless and rapes the country?

[knowbody0]

17. banana is the new communism

fear the banana!

[Cha]

18. They know about Banana Republics

with their 2001 coup in Florida..they need to stfu.