Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in critical condition, 6 others killed in Arizona

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I do think it matter that Palin, unlike others, never called for violence against the government or elected officials. She blithely joked about it and played up her affection for shooting, and it makes a lot of people queasy, but we must distinguish between her, well, vulgarity about guns and the people who've actually spoken about the potential for watering the tree of liberty with blood etc.

Right, the problem is... there are a lot of insane people, who can be influenced by such kind of rethorics despite real context.

So yes, politicians should be damn careful with their rethorics.

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What else can you say that a certain segment of the left needs ... deperately needs ... a pretext of this sort to use state force to silence the Tea Party, even when the situtation does not at all serve the purpose.

In the left's defense, who has demanded that the Tea Party be silenced by "state force"? I haven't heard anyone even cone close to that.

The Austrian kid mentioned something about using some law, or something, to silence Palin if her blogs were discovered on the shooter's computer.

The "Austrian Kid" is part of the American Left?

Those damn foreigners.

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Btw, what members of Congress have their security details? I bet Speaker have one. Others?

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From what I've heard about Gifford, she was not a flaming liberal

I guess she didn't deserve it then.

Sorry, J.J., but it sounded like "if she were a flaming liberal then..."

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No one is saying he was a teabagger brownshirt. What people are saying is that many on the right-wing (arguably the far right-wing) in this country have created an atmosphere where this kind of political violence is normalized and subtly encouraged, to the point that something like this happening eventually isn't very surprising at all.

lolno

Denial! Denial! Denial!

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Senator Common Sense.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/09/gop-senator-rhetoric-need_n_806462.html

Of course, this Senator is hiding her/his idenity in order to nor piss off the base.

Sadly.

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Looks like it will took a whole months before she'd be able to return to work.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110110/ap_on_he_me/us_med_congresswoman_brain_injury

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Just an incredible story of recovery.