Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) Claims FDR was a Communist on Floor of the House

[Tx4obama]

Run time: 01:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzFsKBTqDc   Posted on YouTube: April 13, 2011 By YouTube Member: MediaMattersAction Views on YouTube: 374   Posted on DU: April 14, 2011 By DU Member: Tx4obama Views on DU: 1356

 

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) thinks President Franklin Delano Roosevelt loved Joseph Stalin so much that he sent advisers to Russia to see "what Stalin was doing there so that FDR could replicate it here in the United States."

Broun was speaking Tuesday on the House floor about how the "original intent" of the Constitution was to promote the "general welfare of the nation, not welfare of individuals." The concept of promoting the "welfare of individuals" started with Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, he said: "Both progressives. Both had socialist beliefs."

"In fact," Broun continued, "Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers, his close friends, his Cabinet people to go visit with Stalin in communist Russia to study what he was doing, what Stalin was doing there, so that FDR could replicate it here in the United States. And he did everything that he possibly could to do so."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/rep-broun-fdr-was-a-communist-video.php?ref=fpb

[Drale]

1. This is what happens when mothers drink while pregnant

How did this loser ever get elected, he is a terrible speaker and has no idea what he's talking about.

[atreides1]

4. How?

He's an idiot who was elected by other idiots!

[Modern_Matthew]

2. And his policies worked. So what are they trying to say? :-) nt

[Wickerman]

3. This video should be shown to kids instead of D.A.R.E. videos

This is your brain, this is Rep. Braoun's brain after drugs.

[The Wizard]

5. His father should have

used better rubbers.

[Zambero]

6. Retroactive McCarthyism?

I know these guys dwell in the past and revel in concocting their own versions of history, so no big surprise here.

[mlevans]

7. Check some of the other Broun video clips.

The man has a bad habit of pulling stuff out of his ass.

[livingonearth]

8. Didn't this country have some of its most prosperous years shortly after FDR?

Why don't these idiots ever explain that part of it. And another thing they never explain: what were the big corporations doing that they needed government regulation in the first place? They always avoid the real history and try to substitute some silly notion that the Progressives were all about big government just for big government's sake.

[David__77]

9. FDR was the best ever!

We need someone with his strength, instincts, and leadership. Someone who is committed to returning the country to the path of progress.

[Plucketeer]

10. No disrespect...

..to my Georgia friends, but this idiot and some of the others that the less discerning of you have sent to DC, make me glad I left that state in '81. We have a dolt rep for our Calif district, but at least the state is still staunchly BLUE.

I'm betting this Broun had a pet name in high school - "Shit" "Hey! There goes Shit Broun!"

[Hoosier]

11. Dear Rep Broun:

Fuck you. As for the horse you road in on? Well, that would be just sick.

[JHB]

12. My Republican, conservative (old definition of both) older family members had a name for this...

..."loopy ranting fringe nitwit", plus some words they wouldn't have used if they knew I was listening in after bedtime. And that was well after the heyday of this type. The guy whose audience was "five old guys and a dog, and the dog's the only one awake."

So just in case there's any doubt, the Republicans' lunatics have indeed taken over their asylum.

[ensemble]

13. lame...

and of course the welfare of the nation has nothing to do with the welfare of individuals, unless they are lining his pockets.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

14. Consider the source

Republican = Zero credibility.
They've been so full of shit on so much for so long that if a Republican tells me the sky is blue, I'll want to verify it before believing it.