The very best thing said about the shooting in Arizona so far

Thank You to this man for saying it…..

But even so, the tragedy wouldn’t change this basic fact: for the past two years, many conservative leaders, activists, and media figures have made a habit of trying to delegitimize their political opponents. Not just arguing against their opponents, but doing everything possible to turn them into enemies of the country and cast them out beyond the pale. Instead of “soft on defense,” one routinely hears the words “treason” and “traitor.” The President isn’t a big-government liberal—he’s a socialist who wants to impose tyranny. He’s also, according to a minority of Republicans, including elected officials, an impostor. Even the reading of the Constitution on the first day of the 112th Congress was conceived as an assault on the legitimacy of the Democratic Administration and Congress.

This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right. (On the left it appears in anonymous comment threads, not congressional speeches and national T.V. programs.) And it has gone almost entirely uncriticized by Republican leaders. Partisan media encourages it, while the mainstream media finds it titillating and airs it, often without comment, so that the gradual effect is to desensitize even people to whom the rhetoric is repellent. We’ve all grown so used to it over the past couple of years that it took the shock of an assassination attempt to show us the ugliness to which our politics has sunk.

The massacre in Tucson is, in a sense, irrelevant to the important point. Whatever drove Jared Lee Loughner, America’s political frequencies are full of violent static.

via Interesting Times: It Doesn’t Matter Why He Did It : The New Yorker.

Amen and Amen.

This sums up why I backed off blogging, because the level of the stupid on my side of the fence, was just to the point where I could not handle it anymore. There comes a point, when one has to excuse himself from the stupidity and I did just that. I admit, readily, that I got caught up in some of that stupidity myself; and I very much regret that. What my friends on the right and left need to realize that there are people out there, who do not have the ability to differentiate between rhetoric and reality.

I believe that at this point; trying to place blame on one side or the other; quite frankly, is stupid. I think the best thing that we can all do — all of us, is just stop and take a step back and realize that we need to all calm down. we also need to realize that there is more to this life than politics. Government is not our lives man. Because the obsessive nature of those of us, who cover politics, this little lady is now dead:

That is Christina Greene:

Greene’s family says she was vibrant, excited about life, and she was the “best daughter in the world.”

Born September 11, 2001, Greene was excited about the political process, was on the student government, and went to the Giffords event Saturday to learn more about the political process, family members say.

Greene attended Mesa Verde Elementary School. She was the only girl on the Canyon Del Oro baseball team. She loved the sport, as well as horseback riding and swimming. She wanted to be a veterinarian.

We all are responsible for her death —- right and left. Think about that tonight, when you look at your own Children, if you have any.

It is, truly, a sad day. 🙁 😥