Leading House Democrat: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests, Van Jones part of US ‘Arab Spring’

Rep. John Larson, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, thinks the Occupy Wall Street astroturf is the start of a US “Arab Spring.” “They see the inequities that exist in this country,” Larson said, “and the point is that even an advanced democracy like ours -the Constitution says, ‘We the people, in order to create a more perfect union.’ We’re not there. It’s something that continues to evolve.” Funny that when these people see the Constitution “evolving”, it’s always toward some Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist model.

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  • "Arab spring"? More like A**hole Autumn. These idiots need to go home, take a bath and find something constructive to do with their time like get a job and contribute to society instead of trying to leach off of it.

  • Uh its fall. and we are not an Arab country no matter what Olivia says. This is another mouth that speaks without the benefit of a brain to go along with it. Sadly there is a large amount of people in Washington right now that can not put a thought together without a teleprompter and a script writing team. We had a more perfect Union until the Stalin Children got into office...Again 52 percent of the people in this country voted also with the benefit of using a brain...and whats funny is you can not find many that even admitted they voted for our communist in chief....

    • @NSS--You got that right. The few I've met that admit it do so embarrassingly. They admit (the one's who take responsibilty) it was a very bad mistake and they also say they won't ever reelect him.

  • It is unfortunate for them that they are (the DNC, George Soros et all) putting so much stock in this affair. This won't get them any votes. These do-nothing, fascist, greedy grease pots who want a free lunch by handing out punishments to Wall Street, Corporations and Banks (that just get passed to the consumer) will not engender much empathy amongst Americans. And if this is to be the Soros Army . . . roflmao . . . they're more of a danger to themselves than anyone else.

  • I see the inequities too! I see half of America does NOT pay federal income taxes, yet receive benefits. I see millions of people on Food Stamps that they did NOTHING to earn. I see Welfare Queens, white & black, with too many babies by too many daddies....getting money from me.

    See, two can play at this game.