"Labor Leader Calls for War on Republicans"

That’s the headline on Drudge.

It’s just Drudge’s inflammatory headlines, right?  But then, this is what Jimmy Hoffa said:

“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said to a heavily union crowd.

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“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” Hoffa added.

(Emphasis mine.)

Surely it’s just a metaphor.  Just like this:

Just like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ANPk_vBFEM&feature=player_embedded

And like this:

And as Michelle Malkin documented, this time last year, in the many other instances of Union violence.

I’ve been saying since before the 2008 election that Obama’s nearest historical analogy wasn’t Jimmy Carter or FDR, but Juan Domingo Perón.

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