I opine in response to John Morley's letter to the editor entitled, "Hypocrisy of the left shows in tragedy," and published in the January 14 edition of The Tracy Press, in which Morley professes, "These actions had nothing to do with politics…" He also goes on to state that Tea Party members denounce anyone who commits acts of violence or speaks violent rhetoric against anyone. I have not heard of such denouncement by Tea Party members of the rhetoric used by Sharron Angle, Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann who utter phrases like "take up arms", "be armed and dangerous", "lock and load", "take 'em out" and "second amendment remedies."
Evidence reveals that the suspect had anger to the point of hatred for the congresswoman. Why would he have such feelings and emotions? The congresswoman wouldn't have been involved in some bureaucratic foul-up causing such anger toward her directly. My take – he was unbalanced, may have had difficulty as most of us have due to the economic downturn, and blamed the individual he felt was responsible for his condition – which is what he was led to believe and further enraged ultimately by his imbalance along with the results of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and the vitriolic discourse of the times.
Speaker of the House John Boehner commented that in political discourse, it is okay to disagree but not to be disagreeable. I couldn't agree more.
I just heard Rush Limbaugh use the derogatory term, "Democrat Party". Not an allusion to violence but an intentional disrespectful incorrect use of a noun when an adjective is appropriate. Is this 'agreeable' commentary and discourse?
Boehner also said something else very interesting. He stated that the safety net should be in place for those who cannot compete. Here lies the fundamental flaw that has this country's policies toward business ethics leaving us morally bankrupt. Since when should an individual (not a business – but a citizen) have to compete with a multi-national corporation? I'm quite confident that was not the intent of our founders.
I fully support the efforts and policies of President Obama and the Democrats that have attempted to stem the tide of this immoral competition into which individuals have been forced against large corporations – where there can be no level playing field without the protection of We The People by government from Machiavellian behavior of Big Business.
The argument that the free market will police itself has been disproven over and over again from the predatory practices by Wall Street to the blatant disregard of regulations and common sense leading to the disastrous BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico this past year.
Mr. Morley is indeed correct that hypocrisy abounds, but perhaps if he were to glance in the mirror he might recognize that the emperor is in fact wearing no clothes.