Posted on 01/10/2011 9:55:46 AM PST by pissant
It's not at all clear yet that Jared Lee Loughner tied to kill Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords for political reasons in Arizona on Saturday.
But after the massacre that left six others dead and 13 wounded including Giffords, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison said he thinks his GOP House colleague Michele Bachmann should tone down her "armed and dangerous" language.
"The political rhetoric has grown increasingly toxic, and making allusions (to) guns and reloading, and armed and dangerous, certainly contributes to a toxic political environment, and does have consequences," he told MPR.
Bachmann, meanwhile, has called Giffords a legislator with integrity, and a friend, and said that her "tears are flowing, and I am stunned and angered" after news that she was shot at point blank range.
Here's the overblown rhetoric that Ellison is talking about:
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people - we the people - are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country.
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Keith Hakeem (pbuh) was all over the local TV news shows here yesterday.
The same Keith Ellison that hangs and pals around with islamic terrorist supporters and sympatizers?
Go pound saudi sand Keith!
Another nutcase, stupid, anti-American demoRAT spouting the same, tired, worn-out crap. Hey Kieth, if THIS is all you have for America, then resign. Save the taxpayers some money. You are worthless.
Keith is a loser
I’m so glad these idiots are incapable of controlling themselves. They’re way overplaying their hand and will get burned.
If the Rats could, they would enact an “Enabling Law” to silence all opposition.
wow, there are at least 4 words in her sentence that should be criminalized. But only when used in rousing speeches against democrats
armed
dangerous
fight
revolution
sarc
maybe Keith ought to get right “on” anarchist, misogynist and antisemitic rap music ...
Yes, Keith the muzzie. You know, from the religion of peace. As opposed to Michelle Bachmann, of the Tea Partiers, the radical extremists.
I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.
The liberal leftists/Marxists never cease to amaze me on how absolutely deranged they are. It is almost as though they live in a parallel universe and they are the dark side. I wish we could get rid of all of them. They are really unhappy self-haters.
They are playing to their base, but they’ve completely blown it.
By making this into a political witchhunt from the gitgo, they offended most people, not their base, who wanted to deal with the human dimensions of the tragedy, not the political.
The fallout is going to be spectacularly bad to the dems.
Managing a crisis, (thanks Rahm), means reining in your online twitter buddies, neophytes, just plain morons and dolts and allowing the political professionals to craft what is being said.
By allowing them and Jane Fonda who at last report is still simply another moronic celebrity to shape the outcome was a bad mistake.
BTW, there is some spectacular stuff from y’all on the left that should have been best not said because it can’t be unsaid now.
Hilarious rhetoric considering it comes from a member of a death cult.
Personally I’m sick of all this BS.
No one in government is worth any more then anyone else period. If government folks want to blame someone, blame themselves. When you push more and more BS laws and intrude on the personal freedoms of folks they push folks into reacting and not everyone reacts at the polls sometimes you get these type idiots that are just looking for a reason.
Oh, and having Zero appear as the penultimate healer and moderate before the funeral is going to fall flatter than Texas desert.
And another filthy islamist checks in....
Coming from a left wing Muslim lol
Wow, what gall
The very ones who are supposedly calling for toning down, are the ones using the violent wording...
Keith should worry about the fact that his district is he biggest jihadi terrorist production facility in the country.
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