Posted on 01/09/2011 10:46:01 AM PST by dragnet2
(CNN) -- Lawmakers on Sunday called for toning down the political rhetoric in Washington after a shooting in Arizona that left six people dead and left a congresswoman with a bullet wound to the brain.
Lamar Alexander, told CNN, ...."We ought to cool it, tone it down.... on difficult issues like immigration or taxes or health care law, do our best not to inflame passions."
lawmakers ..... it is time to dial back the fury that has overtaken so much of the U.S. political discourse.
"This ought to be a wake-up call to not only the members of Congress....
Officials in Arizona voiced dismay over the possibility that highly polarized rhetoric in the conservative hotbed state may have played a role in the assassination attempt
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in Tucson used a nationally televised press conference to condemn the tone of political discourse... . He charged that public debate is now "vitriolic rhetoric" that has rendered Arizona "the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."
Dupnik suggested that such rhetoric can have deadly consequences.
Dupnik told reporters. "It's the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business.
.....the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this county is getting to be outrageous. Unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become sort of the capital," Dupnik, a Democrat, continued.
"We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry," he said.
Arizona is a Republican stronghold.....
....free speech but it's not without consequences."
Tom Fuentes, a former FBI... told CNN. "In this country, we have no shortage of mentally unbalanced people, and it seems in case after case, they have no trouble obtaining firearms.
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I agree. The left is completely unhinged and shows has no qualms about using deadly violence to achieve its goals. These people need to stop what they’re doing immediately.
B/S! Down with Marxism!! All traitorous bastards must be voted OUT!!
John McLame, Giffords... who knew!
If you arrogant jerks actually did your jobs and stopped f-ing everyone over, you’d probably see a marked decline in the anger directed at you.
Amen, bro!
Just one thing. Could you give us an example of overheated rhetoric on immigration, taxes, health care, etc., and from whom said rhetoric was uttered by?
It needs to START with Obama!
wow. They are still trying to twist this to blame conservative speech for leftist violence.
So, they plan to insist that Congressman Gutierrez tone down his threats of civil disobedience since he hasn’t gotten his way concerning illegal aliens and comprehensive amnesty?
FU, you RINO Lamar!
We need to peacefull acquiesce to the power and wisdom of our betters. Uh huh.
Just like the Nazis who used the Reichstag Fire (which they set), as an excuse to squelch all dissent.
This is just the Left taking Rham’s advice: Don’t let a crisis go to waste.
If they can get pansies such as Lamar Alexander to cave, they’ll have a much easier time pushing BO’s Marxist agenda in the next two years.
The left is lying as they usually do. We now know the guy, if he can be put anywhere, was on the left. Certainly none of the issues that motivated him have any relationship to the tea party, health care bill, etc. He was in fact a lone nut. Amazingly, the left - and only the left - are inflamming passions through this slander - and while doing so, say it is those on the right who are doing it.
Clarence the Clown should be fired. He’s an America hater.
We hope America is not terminally STUPID and continues to harbor any tolerence for these treasonous bastid's.
GUILLOTINE the demonrat party! ! !
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