Thanks, Conservatives!

Post #338,365 by lincoln 1/10/11 9:16:36 PM Reply	Thanks, Conservatives! Thanks so much for all the over-the-top rhetoric about how the Democrats are unlawful fascist tyrants who must be overthrown or killed. Thanks so much for nodding and winking at the teabaggers who paraded around with firearms and ÂTime To Water The Tree Of LibertyÂ t-shirts at Democratic healthcare townhalls. Thanks so much for denying all responsibility every time some nut goes off and attacks liberals or Democrats, and/or implying that they were perfectly justified. Thanks so much for fighting so hard to make it easy to buy guns and carry them around everywhere. I have some questions for you, if youÂre not too busy telling us all about how Jared Loughner is a pot-smoking hippie: 1) If all these acts of violence are committed by dangerously disturbed people who are completely apolitical and uninfluenced by your steady drumbeat of ÂDEMOCRATS ARE TYRANNICAL AND BAD! KILL DEMOCRATS!Â, then wouldnÂt they be attacking conservatives in roughly equal numbers? 2) If you deplore these violent acts of dangerously disturbed individuals acting completely on their own with no political agenda whatsoever, why do you insist on making it so easy for them to acquire guns? Especially when the law of averages suggests that the next twenty or so Totally Random Apolitical Attacks will be on conservatives? 3) Have you, at long last, no sense of decency? How can you continue to use such recklessly violent language after so much violence? If you had dinner with a family who lost a family member to gun violence, would you be cracking gun jokes all night long or talking about how much youÂd like to see some liberal politician taken out and shot? 4) Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people??? http://my.firedoglak...ks-conservatives/ "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #338,381 by beepster 1/11/11 12:24:24 AM Reply	Yawn though figured as much...every looney with a firearm is the fault of conservatives. Youbetcha. Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #338,396 by jake123 1/11/11 10:53:22 AM Reply	Keep driving that bus, Bill it's taking your country straight into the ditch.
Post #338,404 by beepster 1/11/11 11:28:11 AM Reply	Certainly I'll drive it today and two trips on Sunday. You are falling into it with everyone else..taking advantage of a tragedy with limited basis in politics and using it for political gamesmanship. The guy was nuts. He wasn't a democrat or a republican or a tea party member...he was nuts. to have one side now pounding their feet in the sand and saying "see, its all your fault" is pure bullshit gamesmanship. Both sides play the game. They've always played the game. And to go through 20 years of soundbites and press snippets to play gotcha with this...well, its not doing the Judges memory any justice. Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #338,412 by jake123 1/11/11 11:58:30 AM Reply	I like the way this was put If you think it's okay because "only a psycho" would take it seriously, then don't act all pissed off when a psycho takes it seriously. Show me a lefty politician who ran for the senate who ruminated about "2nd amendment remedies" if they should lose the election, please.
Post #338,417 by boxley 1/11/11 12:35:38 PM Reply	how about obama bring a gun to a knife fight? Oh yeah, when the left does it its a metaphor Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #338,419 by Another Scott 1/11/11 12:41:30 PM Reply	Context, not L/R, matters. http://blogs.wsj.com...t-we-bring-a-gun/ HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #338,426 by beepster 1/11/11 1:15:05 PM Reply	and I would bet you this weeks salary that kid in Az never heard that speech. Never heard that line. From either one of them. correct, context matters. And neither of those incidents are in context (unless you happen to be a blogger on the left). Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #338,461 by boxley 1/11/11 8:32:10 PM Reply	here is a better one for you to parse Im sure you will provide http://washingtonexa...t-wall-and-shot-n Incumbent on all Americans to create an atmosphere of civility and respect? Congressman heal thyself! Yesterday, I noted that, according to the Scranton Times, Kanjorski said this about Florida's new Republican Governor Rick Scott on October 23: "That Scott down there that's running for governor of Florida," Mr. Kanjorski said. "Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he's running for governor of Florida. He's a millionaire and a billionaire. He's no hero. He's a damn crook. It's just we don't prosecute big crooks." Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #338,462 by Another Scott 1/11/11 8:52:05 PM Reply	That's one.
Post #338,513 by lincoln 1/12/11 9:03:46 PM Reply	Re: here is a better one for you to parse He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he's running for governor of Florida. And he should spend the rest of his life in prison, and not one of those "Club Fed" places either. Shooting him would let him off easy. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #338,772 by mhuber 1/18/11 1:50:34 AM Reply	math skills Notice how the loonies kill at random, hitting conservatives about as often as independent not-Republican tea-partiers vote non-Republican? --------------------------------------- I think it's perfectly clear we're in the wrong band. (Tori Amos)

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