The idiot, I refer to is Rep. Chellie Pingree, who writes this at the Huffington Post!
As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend Gabby Giffords and eleven others isn’t clear. We don’t know what prompted the shooter to show up at Gabby’s Congress on Your Corner at a Tucson grocery store with a semiautomatic pistol and the motivation to kill innocent people. We don’t know if it was unmitigated hatred and misdirected rage or paranoid delusion. We don’t know if was politics — aimed at Gabby’s courageous stands on health care and immigration. I suspect in the end, we’ll learn it was a combination of factors that led this young man to go on the rampage that shook the nation.
In a way, though, it doesn’t really matter what prompted this act of senseless violence. What really matters is that we do everything we can to prevent it from happening again. And the first thing we can do is to crank down the rhetoric a few notches.
I work in a world of words — words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate. All of us — no matter our party affiliation or political persuasion — must accept this fact and take responsibility for the environment these words help create.
No one should think that one side or the other of the political spectrum is without blame. Whether it’s a conservative politician publishing a map with a bullseye on Gabby’s district or a liberal blogger saying Gabby is “dead to me,” too many have forgotten what it means to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the “Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act,” was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby’s shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week.
Oh dear, is this woman serious? Is she suffering from another, as yet undiagnosed Liberal Malady? Hypersensitivitis perhaps?? If she wishes to say that rhetoric needs “toning down” then perhaps she should start by talking to many of her fellow democrats!
The fact is that, wants the Right to hush up, and roll over and allow Liberals to have their way. In Pingree’s mind, dissent is thPjngreee very highest form of patriotism, UNLESS, of course, it comes from the right. Then, it is violent vitriol and completely un-American, dangerous, and incites violence, and likely leads to ingrown toenails as well.
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Dave C
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Pingree is simply one more leftist moron who’s slithered into the public arena from my home state of Maine…. another totally useless control freak who claims to “care about the people” while she does everything in her power to ruin lives.
Your garden variety busy body then
The Leftist call for “toning down the rhetoric” is comparable to a Rapist telling his victim to “shut the f*** up”.
The rhetoric is caused by the inexorable “progressive” dragging of this nation in directions it doesn’t want to go, and by Constitution, shouldn’t be possible to go. Halt that, and the rhetoric will drop.