US Rights Clampdown: Leftist Knee-Jerking

If you peruse the DEM/MSM and the Leftist Blogosphere, you essentially see blame for the attempted assassination -- and that's precisely what it was -- of Congresswoman Gifford placed squarely upon the shoulders of Glenn Beck, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, me, guns, language, sunspots, tidal pull, delayed borborigmus, California Barking Spiders, flatulence, Abraham Lincoln and old men with powdered wigs.

Oddly enough, this entire country was founded upon heated language. Imagine that. An historical reference with veracity. And there is no more documented and statistically-verified heated rhetoric now than ten or twenty or fifty or a hundred or two hundred years ago. Perhaps even less. If you wish incivility perhaps you've not seen an active session of the British Parliament. Or actual fistfights and bedlam in the political chambers of a host of other nations.

But realize this: it is the First and Second Amendments that Demorats and Leftists wish to immediately abrogate.

Because, as Rahm Emanual clearly so stated, "never let a good crisis go to waste." The Demorats are patently adhering to that adage in their attempt to proselytize and mark Conservatives as accessories to a clear lunatic.

Even Ezra Klein of The Washington Post says Gifford's attempted assassination is "the work of a nut," on the Hugh Hewitt show on Monday. He suggests much caution.

There is absolutely no connection between political rhetoric and Jared Lee Loughner. At his feral young age, he wasn't a registered Republican; he wasn't a registered Demorat; he was a registered Independent. He wasn't polarized; he was a vacillating, dope-smoking, flag-burning nutburger.

This nation was, I repeat, founded on heated rhetoric and more: actual revolution.

George Bush, yes, said "bring it on!"

But, as was pointed out earlier on my very own blog by Robert, Obama has himself said on various occasions:

- Obama: “They bring a knife -- we bring a gun” -- Philadelphia, 2008
- Obama to His followers: “Argue with them! Get in their face!”
- Obama on ACORN: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
- Obama to devotees: “Hit back twice as hard”
- Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks -- so I know whose ass to kick.“
- Obama to voters: a Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat.”
- Obama to supporters: “It’s time to fight for it.”
- Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
- Obama to Democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”

Obama said he himself wants to place insurance companies "in the crosshairs."

In a nutshell, all Leftist speech is only metaphorical; Conservative speech is obviously inciting.

Glenn Reynolds of HotAir.com writes in the Wall Street Journal:

Shortly after November's electoral defeat for the Democrats, pollster Mark Penn appeared on Chris Matthews's TV show and remarked that what President Obama needed to reconnect with the American people was another Oklahoma City bombing. To judge from the reaction to Saturday's tragic shootings in Arizona, many on the left (and in the press) agree, and for a while hoped that Jared Lee Loughner's killing spree might fill the bill.

Obama needs another OC bombing? Video next:



In the meantime, intemperate illiterati like bd and deaconbleu besmirch the good names of Bob Dylan and Steely Dan.

Illiterati = incompetents.

And yet, they are essentially accusing me, you, Conservatives as accessories to murder. This is completely -- and I make this statement broadly and rightly so -- unhinged.

You want to write about rhetoric? What of the rhetoric of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and his completely unevidenced blatherations? A registered Demorat, Dupnik concedes he, in fact, has no evidence that Loughner was influenced by anything more than half-firing brain cells.



The Left is, unfortunately, based in completely uninformed, puerile and jejune "revelations" with regard to the Leftist Mindthink. This isn't a tragedy; this is an opportunity.

Let me go you one better: this is the "Perfect Storm" in terms of allowing Congress to rationalize further distancing of themselves from the electorate so that you, me, we, have an even greater difficulty in contacting our elected representatives and, further, lesser accountability to the electorate by those we elect.

Gabrielle Giffords wasn't purposely sacrificed -- no one saw this coming -- but she may end up "taking one for the team" in terms of elected officials conveniently refusing to interact with their electorate from now until obscurum.

And yet: here's where the wheat separates itself from the chaff.

BZ