Posted on 01/09/2011 2:25:48 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Paul Krugman of the New York Times suggests darkly that Giffords was shot because she was a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona and violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate (those reponsible for such a climate being, of course, Republicans).
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Jane Fonda pins it on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party.
Even the local sheriff (a Democrat) has been getting in on the act. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik (a Democrat) said:
"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And, unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry."
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what are the facts we know so far? From what we know about Loughner, he was a deeply disturbed young man who railed about literacy rates, spoke of flag burning and creating a new currency.
Former classmates talk of nonsensical outbursts and a person on his own planet. ....My colleague Jon Swaine has a summary here of the raving of a person who most people would judge to be a complete nutcase even if he hadnt gone out and shot people.
Oh, and another former classmate said he was left wing, quite liberal. .................
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This is highly inconvenient for certain people on the Left so they ignore it. They would much prefer the shooter to have been a white male in his 50s, the description the sheriff gave of a second person of interest (well see if such a person materialises) but theyll still try to make hay with a weirdo like Loughner.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
No worries. That was very mild and there was no intent to hurt in it.
The republican/conservative guests on these shows should have copies of these maps and show them on every T.V. show they go on. I wonder how Chissy and smart @$$ Van Hollen would have responded.
The map is getting around. Check the pingback links in the link posted above your post.
Here’s the list w/o links
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