printIn the aftermath of the Arizona shootings, our masters in modern Rome are foregoing “partisanship” (read principle) and are coming together to spend funds not their own to secure their sorry asses against the statistically minuscule chance that these royal behinds will come to harm. Curiously, House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson is commending House Speaker John Boehner for being “extraordinary in setting the right tone” for “a more enlightened way.”
“A more enlightened way” than what?” It’s almost as though Larson is the aggrieved party and Boehner a member of the offending group. Both parties have assumed these respective roles.
Indeed: “Republicans are clearly responding as if they feel somewhat incriminated,” said University of Michigan political science professor Lisa Disch. “On the one hand, they are acting very quickly to distance themselves from the incident, but on the other hand, they seem to be feeling as if they have been caught at something; caught at using rhetoric that is incendiary.”
On the topic of grief: A day after their child’s dreadful demise, the parents of the “9-year-old girl gunned down in Saturday’s shooting rampage outside an Arizona grocery store” were liberally granting interviews.
To me this is unsettling. We once used to grieve privately—at least initially. These days, there is nothing people will not share and express in public, and ASAP. They have no private selves.
This is part of our festering cultural commons.
This is all emotionally pornographic. With no lives of our own, we have this aching need to feel a part of someone else’s. Sad . . . disgusting . . . vulgar.
Its coming. Watch. Bipartisanship is coming. It will leave the last Republican Congress look like it was lead by Goldwater. Now that Oklahoma City II has been manufactured, and blamed on the right, ObamaCare stays, dontcha know cos it wont be ‘extreme’ and ‘uncivil’ and ‘promote violence’ to repeal unjust, liberty-killing laws.
Just surrender meekly, oh wards of the American empire. All seems to be lost…
I agree with you completely about grieving in private – that would be my preference, too.
However, based on what I understand the father to be saying about his little girl, he’s at least TRYING to do something good. They seemed to have raised her well… with civic awareness and goals for her life that included an understanding of what it means to be a citizen of the republic. He seems to be trying to NOT let the MSM exploit her death by himself taking control of the conversation about her. It’s too bad that he has to do this… but I think his motives are born out of a desire to protect his daughter’s legacy. He should be applauded for being a good father even while under such duress.
I’ll be honest if someone from the media called me after losing one of my daughters in a tragic shooting I would not be friendly. I know how I responded to 9/11 and if the hit were much closer to home my anger and my grief would not allow me to speak to the media. My response would be let me lick my wounds in private and retain some dignity.
I had a conversation with my wife last night before we went to bed and she indicated that a woman in the crowd was able to grab one of the shooter’s (bullet) magazines and effectively make it possible for others to overwhelm the shooter (based on News Reports and I do not have the references, will try and find them). If this is true, it begs the question where were the men? I’m sure there were men involved in coraling the shooter but, it was a lone woman who took the biggest initial risk.
I may try to do a little research into the number of senators and congressman that have been shot over the years. I’m willing to bet that the number is quite small. Is the probablility of a congressman getting shot higher or lower than the constituents they represent?
The “festering cultural commons” summation hearkened thoughts of sleep-learning.
A similar thread seems apparent within the comments left on Palin’s alleged “cross-hairs” article. Most irritating, because little was made of the Media’s deft response to this incident.
As we approach a pure democracy, I suppose we should not be perplexed when everyone with a broadband connection decides to enter the dialogue.