Welcome to the new civility
In January 2011 in Tucson, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot and critically wounded by what was described as a “crazed gunman.” The paramedics hadn’t even arrived before the media was out in force trying to tie the “crazed gunman” to the Tea Party, or to Sarah Palin, or at the very least, to conservatives.
Six people died in that shooting. They were innocent people who had come to hear Congresswoman Giffords speak. A few days after the shootings, President Obama addressed the nation and expressed his concern over a “lack of civility” : “If, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse,” Mr. Obama said, “let us remember that it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy — it did not — but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation, in a way that would make them proud.”
Pundits and commentators far and wide picked up the mantle and called for a “new civility”, expressing or implying that the Tea Party and angry conservatives are guilty of incivility, hateful rhetoric, intolerance, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, and the most laughable, violence. There has been no violence at any Tea Party event since the Tea Party began in the spring of 2009, with the exception of the beating of Kenneth Gladney, a conservative African American who was beaten by SEIU thugs who attacked him and called him “the ‘N’ word” for being a black conservative.
Tea Partiers are, for the most part, middle-aged Americans who are angry with the out-of-control spending going on in Washington, the increase in taxes, the increase in punitive regulations, the class warfare, and the mandates, rules and restrictions being forced upon everyday Americans. We just want to be left alone to raise our families, pay our bills, earn our livings, and worship as we choose. We want the America that our founding fathers gave us. We sing the National Anthem and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at all of our meetings. This is apparently the “hateful rhetoric” of which we are guilty. We aren’t violent, we aren’t profane. We are Americans who love our country and want it back.
Welcome to the new civility. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen the following:
Michael Moore on Keith Olbermann’s show:
“…and the smart rich know, they can only build the gates so high, and, and, sooner or later, history proves that people, when they’ve had enough, aren’t going to take it anymore, and [it's] much better to deal with it non-violently now, through the political system, than what could possibly happen in the future, which nobody wants to see…”
Morgan Freeman on Piers Morgan’s show said the Tea Party’s goal is “screw the country, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here.” Freeman concluded: “It is a racist thing.”
Maxine Waters addressed the unemployed during a forum in Inglewood. A day after new statistics were released showing that California’s jobless rate last month went up to 12%, from 11.8%, Waters vowed to push Congress to focus on creating more jobs. “I’m not afraid of anybody,” said Waters. “This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to hell.”
Yes, it’s clear that the Tea Party and conservatives have to learn to be more civil.
© 2011, Penny4HB. All rights reserved.
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don't forget this yesterday's "Sarah Palin Would 'F–k' Rick Perry If He Was Black." – Bill Mahar, 9/23/2011.
http://www.change.org/petitions/time-warner-board…
Let's not forget this dude: http://www.libertyjuice.com/2011/09/23/dem-senato…
http://godfatherpolitics.com/1023/the-tenth-amend…
Good piece. I left the words of the author of the phrase "general welfare" commenting on it:
"With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." –James Madison
And the violence directly linked to by Obama that resulted in the murder of 200 citizens: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/20/report-at-l…
Civility? How about the policemen who acted stupidly? He's only looking for civility so that the conservatives can't take this man apart intellectually. I hope that we continue to be polite, but we are not going to weaken our arguments by the "wee wee" intention of "reaching across the aisle." Oh how I hate that phrase. Every time we reach across the aisle, our watches and wallets get stolen.
I'm with you, Lombardian. The phrase "reaching across the aisle" is just the left's way of guilting us into compromising our own principles.
Add this to all that.
Book: Women in Obama White House felt excluded and ignored
A new book claims that the Obama White House is a boys’ club marred by rampant infighting that has hindered the administration’s economic policy and left top female advisers feeling excluded from key conversations.
"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/suskind-book-female-advisers-in-obama-white-house-sidelined-and-ignored/2011/09/16/gIQAAOSSXK_story.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
DUH! Who could have seen that coming?
DUH!!!!!!!!!!
Vote for the Goofus again Goobers-Boughts!
right on the money, Penny! I agree totally.
I posted about exactly this hypocrisy from our current Enemy Of The United States : http://bit.ly/qlPpph
A friend sent this remark on handling being called a "racist"…"I am personally making it my local job to eliminate the word "racist" by neutralizing it any time it is used. If someone says it, I just nod and use it in the newly appropriate context, saying, "yes, I do disagree with your politics", refusing to even acknowledge a color thing at all. It really flummoxes them. If they try to bring it back to color, I just look dumbfounded and say "but the new definition means I DON'T AGREE WITH YOU", thus neutralizing them again. " Barbara Miller has kindly consented to having this posted.
When Democrats speak of "civility," they mean "shut up, conservatives." As far as they're concerned, their vile lies, outfageous slander and ignorant BS are perfectly OK.
this cancer in the white house must go at any cost.