April 11, 2011 11:08 PM UTC

Stay Classy, Shawn Mitchell (Beat Up Some Liberals Edition)

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• by: Colorado Pols

With little additional comment needed, as posted to Sen. Shawn Mitchell’s Facebook page:

To our knowledge, the only member of Congress presently talking, very obliquely, about a ‘ban’ on Koran burning is Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. It would have been good for Sen. Mitchell to mention this detail, since the rest of Mitchell’s analogy is about “beating up liberals.”

Don’t get us wrong, we understand that Mitchell is not advocating “beating up liberals,” but why drag Democrats into a Republican’s knee-jerk reaction to a Koran burning? And how is “talking about tax increases” as bad as burning a Koran? It must be, after all, since that would apparently be grounds for a conservative riot–as much as burning a Koran incites Muslims? Isn’t that how this analogous business works? What exactly is Sen. Mitchell trying to say here?

It’s probably as stupid as it looks, but our psychologist readers might find a little more.