This morning on CNN I saw the governor of Florida, Republican Charlie Crist, pushing that Obama-is-Carter comparison—clearly now a Republican talking point—and suggesting that there’d be a Reagan-like GOP landslide in 2012.

Crist was talking about how he’d started a health insurance plan in Florida that had “no goverment mandates” and wouldn’t mean higher taxes. The CNN interviewer pointed out that there are almost 4 million people without health insurance in Florida and only 3700 people have signed up for Crist’s plan.

“Actually, it’s over 4,000 now,” Crist said.

A few minutes later, I saw an ad attacking the “Obama/Democrats'” health care plan, saying things like you wouldn’t be able to keep your doctor and you might be jailed if you don’t buy health insurance. It’s all because of Obama’s “public option,” the ad, paid for by a group called “Conservatives for Patients’ Rights,” charged—neglecting to mention that the public option is off the table (and even if it weren’t, neither of those things were true).

And the Washington Post reports that the Secret Service is investigating the origin of a Facebook poll asking the question, “Should Obama Be Killed?”

The choices were: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.

To which one can only say, WTF? Who are these people?

It’s clear that the Republican Party is more interested in being obstructionist than in helping to solve the country’s problems.

[I also saw Missouri Republican senator Kit Bond on CNN attacking Obama for going to Europe to woo the Olympics instead of “taking the time to meet with his generals about Afghanistan,” which is just absurd.

(And speaking of the Olympics, they should of course be in Rio, I mean, Rio vs. Chicago? Don’t be silly.)]

What is of greater concern is whether the Republican Party is trying to incite the assassination of the president.