Obama's most recent hire, former Clinton hatchet man John Podesta, compared the Republican party to the Jonestown cult earlier this year. The administration's big comeback should "focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of Congress," Podesta told Politico Magazine. I don't think he was talking about Democrats. Podesta may sound like your average liberal blogger at times, but his view of Repiblicans is actually pretty mainstream in the Democratic party. Speaker Boehner's spokesman reminded people just what Jonestown was all about: Speaker John Boehner's office ripped John Podesta, the incoming counselor to President Barack Obama, for comments he made to POLITICO, comparing House Republicans to followers of Jim Jones, who murdered five people, including then-Rep. Leo Ryan, before committing mass suicide in Guyana in 1978. "For those who've forgotten, a Democratic member of...(Read Full Post)