Isn’t it odd that Democrat (and Hillary’s campaign mgr.) Mark Penn’s statement from just two months ago that “the President and the Dems needed another Oklahoma City type occurrence” has vanished down the memory hole of the MSM?
Another view of this from a writer at the Daily Telegraph (of course front page linked not buried inside)
[snip] “.....In Miss Giffords’ neighbouring state of Nevada, Sharron Angle, the Republican Senate candidate, called for “Second Amendment remedies”, referring to the constitutional clause stating the’ right to bear arms.
When Congress begins work later this month, Republicans will attempt a repeal Mr Obama’s landmark healthcare bill, which has become an emblem for everything the Tea Party opposes due to its apparent attempt to inflict European-style “socialised medicine” on the US.
Their move is likely to fail, which may only inspire more passionate campaigning by Republican activists to elect a president and new congressmen in 2012 who can finish the job.
Jimmy Carter, the former US President, said recently that Washington was more polarised “even maybe than the time of Abraham Lincoln and the initiation of the war between the states.”
The hundreds of people who gathered in South Carolina last month for a Secessionists Ball, celebrating the confederate states’ attempt to break away from the north 150 years ago, may well agree.”