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Sioux Falls blogger Jay Reding is noting that Daily Kos is comparing Republicans to the Taliban:

Let’s not forget that ultimately, Osama’s vision for the Arab world is far more akin to the Right’s vision of America…On homosexuality, on militarism, on women’s rights, on religion in school, on capital punishment, on free speech, on curtailment of civil liberties, and on a million different other issues Islamic fundamentalists don’t share many disagreements with the ideologues running our country.

The reason we hate Islamic fundamentalists is pretty much the same reason we’re fighting to take back this country from the Republicans. They are two peas from the same pod, and diametrically opposed to everything we liberals stand for.

Of course, Senator Tim Johnson is the one who first popularized the comparison between Republicans and the Taliban:

At a campaign rally for Democratic U.S. House candidate Stephanie Herseth on Sunday in Sioux Falls, Johnson delivered this statement to the crowd, according to The Associated Press: "When Stephanie Herseth fills this seat, we are going to have a rising star in the House of Representatives. And how sweet it's going to be on June 2 when the Taliban wing of the Republican Party finds out what's happened in South Dakota."