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Did the Republicans think they could whip people into a frenzy, starting with Sarah Palin during the campaign and ending with Republican congresspeople waving the don't tread on me flag from the balcony of the capital as the health care bill got passed?
Did the GOP really think that encouraging people with guns and signs threatening gun violence that a gun would never be fired in the name of politics?
Lie with dogs and you get fleas.
Time for the Republicans in congress to tone down the threatening rhetoric and calm their followers down.
Wow.The policy of congressional Republicans...
OMG You're right! You're absolutely right!
You proved it by showing a small picture of a small segment of a large rally where a couple whack jobs are holding up signs using a pun with guns in it that plays off the common political term used by both sides of "Killing" a bill.
Its OBVIOUS the GOP actually condones and supports actions of violence against people because of that
:roll:
For the love of Christ people...
Yeah, those pictures totally prove everything ... :roll:Did the Republicans think they could whip people into a frenzy, starting with Sarah Palin during the campaign and ending with Republican congresspeople waving the don't tread on me flag from the balcony of the capital as the health care bill got passed?
Did the GOP really think that encouraging people with guns and signs threatening gun violence that a gun would never be fired in the name of politics?
Lie with dogs and you get fleas.
Time for the Republicans in congress to tone down the threatening rhetoric and calm their followers down.
Wow.
Show that this is actually a -policy- of the GOP in congress.
The policy of congressional Republicans is to praise the fortitude of the anti-health care reform demonstrations and disregard their death threats and vandalisms; even when these death threats are etched onto the signs they are carrying.
And apparently also to complain when the reverse occurs and violence is directed at them.
So, you have no evidence of this being actual GOP policy. Thanks.They give encouraging speeches at rallies that dispaly threatening signs. When they don't give encouraging speeches at these rallies, they nonetheless praise the determinition exhibited by the protestors against the health care reform.
Republicans need to give credance and speak out every single time against the fringe lunatics in a crowd just as much as Democrast needed to do it with War Protesters.
Not much.
They should not come out in support if it. When questioned about it, in a manner that isn't baiting, they should condemn it. But you don't give credance to the whackos and lunatics that are the vocal minority of a group because 1, you do a disservice to the much larger majority by focusing on the idiots and 2, you just reenforce their notion that they should keep doing that to get attention.
Idiots suggesting we kill the bill with a browning if Brown can't kill it isn't really different than Sarah Palin being hung in effege, but I didn't hear liberals calling on their representitives to decry that. Idiots calling Obama hitler is no different than people calling Bush hitler. People suggesting Obama is a socialist isn't different then people suggesting Bush was a Fascist. People claiming the democrats are trying to take over the entire public sector isn't much different rhetoric wise than saying the entire point of the Iraq War was to get their oil and make halliburton rich. Gas Lines cut in response to legislation is much like Army Recruitment Centers bombed because of it. Is spitting on a congressman somehow tens of thousands of times worse than vandalizing businesses during protests. Is "Don't tread on me" hateful harmful rhetoric but "Get up in peoples faces" not? Throwing money at a parkinsons suffer is dispicable, so too is attacking a man in a wheel chair at a town hall. Screams of "Nigger" at a politician is low class, so too is having thugs with clubs standing outside of polling places.
Both sides have lunatics, whackos, and fringers that do asinine things and both sides have people that can suffer from mob mentality in the heat of the moment. Neither side needs to actively, continually, repeatedly, over and over again every moment they have come out and speak against it whenever discussing people who those whackos may be related to.
Republicans don't need to condemn the whackos everytime they talk about the Tea Parties anymore than Democrats would've needed to condemn them everytime they talked about the anti-war movement.
So, you have no evidence of this being actual GOP policy. Thanks.
Explain which problems and how exactly the entirety of those problems were solved by bullets?
Sergei Barbarin, for one:
The Wacky World Of Murder: Sergei Babarin
Entered a library back in 1999 and opened fire on the patrons. He was shot and killed while reloading by a friend of mine, which effectively ended the problem.
Hmm. Your link says the police shot him.
I wish both sides would stop pretending that they don't have their own ridiculous extremist idiots. There are almost equal numbers of people who believe that 9/11 was an inside job or the Barack Obama is actually Kenyan.
That suggests to me that there are similar levels of lunacy on both ends of the spectrum.
Yep. My friend was a patrol officer at the time. That is the first situation where a bullet solved a problem that came to my mind. But, I can think of others, if you'd like. I'm aware of SEVERAL "problems" that were solved by bullets...permanently.
This is true.
On the other hand, the right wing loons are the ones walking around on Capitol hill and spitting on congressmen and such right now. They're mostly the ones who are acting on their lunacy. Still doesn't mean that normal rightwingers are to blame for them, but it's why the focus is on them.
Yep. My friend was a patrol officer at the time. That is the first situation where a bullet solved a problem that came to my mind. But, I can think of others, if you'd like. I'm aware of SEVERAL "problems" that were solved by bullets...permanently.
It wasn't all that long ago that the leftists were urging armed resistance against military bases, the media, and the gummint on indymedia.org, and tearing up downtown Seattle.
Is that single man the problem? If so, indeed it is solved...permanently.
If the problem is more people like that horrible man remain out there, we have a problem not permanently solved by this particular event.
Horrible story too; I'd like to add. I pray for those families.
This is true.
On the other hand, the right wing loons are the ones walking around on Capitol hill and spitting on congressmen and such right now. They're mostly the ones who are acting on their lunacy. Still doesn't mean that normal rightwingers are to blame for them, but it's why the focus is on them.
Currently however its not. A lot of the focus is pushing this as if its the norm,
Let me just say...when 25% of political party adherents believe that a sitting president is the anti-christ, houston, we have a problem that is becoming bigger than fringe.
Quarter of Republicans Think Obama May Be the Anti-Christ | LiveScience
And, when 1/3 of Americans think that the government was behind 9/11...same deal.
Third of Americans suspect 9-11 government conspiracy | ScrippsNews
The problem is that there are currently A LOT of whackdoos in this country, on both sides of the political spectrum.
The problem is that there are currently A LOT of whackdoos in this country, on both sides of the political spectrum.
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