“WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.

‘It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,’ Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. ‘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.’”

Rep. Paul Broun then threw his toys out of the pram.

Actually, read the above quote carefully. What’s genius about it isn’t Broun’s claim that Barack Obama might be about to launch a Marxist dictatorship, but that Broun “may have a problem” with that.

One dreads to think what he’d have a serious problem with. Anarchy?

But you know what? Maybe it’s confidence in what’s coming. Maybe it’s the GOP falling on its own sword. But whatever it is, I just went and had a look at the site – and saw this, its current headline, and I didn’t get angry. I just laughed:

Obama on Obama: Marxist Friends

Obama shrugs off charges of socialism, but notes in memoir that he carefully chose Marxist professors as friends in college

Absolutely. Love. It.

Man goes to college! Talks to people about political ideas!

(Oh, and I’ve read the book. And there’s no way any normal person would read it and come up with that headline about his college years.)

I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous: that the ’story’ above is considered to be a headline, or that it’s somehow evidence of Obama’s socialist/communist/Marxist beliefs. And funny how this is only Fox’s headline now that, erm, it’s the Republican party’s current tack on Obama, isn’t it? I mean, when that book’s been sitting there (with all its Marxist content) since 1995, an’ all.

Remember: this is the most popular news channel in America. Now I’m done laughing, and just want to weep. How has this situation been able to continue for so long?