Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, January 10, 2011

Some Good News

Michelle Malkin on the attack!

Professional criminal Tom Delay got a three year prison sentence.

Before anyone accuses me of being just like Sharon Angle and her calls to "second amendment remedies" let me point out the difference.

Tom Delay was tried in a court of law and the verdict was rendered by a jury of his peers, at which point he was sentenced in a manner commensurate with his crimes.

Some lunatic walked up behind Gabby Gifford and shot her in the back of the head.

They are not the same.

As Edroso points out, the same right wingnuts that have published the addresses of political opponents and accused Democrats of islamofacisocialism and being enemies of the American people who must be stopped AT ALL COSTS are basically whining that THEY are the ones who are suffering from all these calls to tone down the rhetoric.

To quote the Bard, "Methinks thou doth protest too much."

Here's another idea: stop using violent language and imagery to score political points.

UPDATE: And the "both sides do it" nonsense should end by reading this.

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