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I have very few conclusions to draw about this entire sordid Loughner affair, but there are a number of things that should be commented on.

There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that Jared Lougner is a nut case.   Of course, that should go as the first point in any attack such as the one out in Arizona. But perhaps some comparisons are in order here to put a frame around this situation.

Might we reasonably say that the suicide bombers surrounding Islam, also lack sanity? There is some argument back and forth on that particular point among the supposed experts, but I feel it’s safe to say that such actions as a suicide bomber would take would qualify one for the “I love me” jacket at the very least.

Notice , please, that thus far I have not made any mention whatsoever of political persuasion, one way or the other.  The point that I am making here, is that regardless of one’s political persuasion, one can be insane.

Amusingly, in at least one discussion that I’ve been involved with this past week, it has been pointed out that the only thing that stands between Jared Lougner and America, is the government funded and run mental health care system.  Amusing, and alarming at the same time, because we see how well governmental  intervention works, don’t we?

That said, then, why is it that the subject of sanity, or insanity in Jared Lougner wasn’t brought into the discussion until such time as the left figured out that they couldn’t pin this nutcase and his actions on the Tea Party,  or on Sarah Palin, or on conservatism in general? I mean, the bodies want even cold yet in Arizona, before leftist pundits from all over the country were pouncing on what they doubtless saw as an unprecedented opportunity to score points , political points, against the right.  We even saw calls from some leftists to return to the days of the “fairness doctrine”.  Any opportunity to quell dissent by use of government force … Never let it be said that the left side of the ‘sphere is not opportunistic. However, once the word came out that you couldn’t pin this one on the right, suddenly and with amusing predictability,  we saw calls for not casting blame.

This seems to me to be of a piece with something I’ve pointed out about democrats many times over ; the only time you ever see Democrats talking about bipartisanship, is when they had their asses handed them, at the voting booth. In this case, when the situation did not turn into the wet dream of far leftists everywhere, suddenly they are all interested in making nice, lest the Public/Voter Relations situation get too far out of hand. That’s key.  After all, what is the talk of limiting terminology used in political discussion (crosshairs, gunned terminology, etc. ) but an attempt by the left to control the narrative?

Let’s illustrate this a little more closely;  When John Hinckley tried to cap president Ronald Reagan, I don’t recall the left standing up and calling for more civility in politics to prevent this kind of attack, do you?  As a matter of fact I recall a certain celebratory mood from some on the left that day.  To say nothing of some of the stuff I read in the weeks following that event. Precious little of those writings can be found these days. there, again, control of the narrative is all.

Clearly the left will continue  to try and find some way to manipulate this situation to their own advantage.  Even the funeral of the victims is being manipulated by the left, including the White House, to the advantage of the left.  That’s a subject I’ll touch on next time.

Breakfast Scramble (Sunday) http://f.ast.ly/QJQ5w

Lunacy, from Susie Madrak Democracy Now:

We speak with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller. A 63-year-old disabled veteran, Fuller had campaigned for Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in her reelection campaign and was at the supermarket in Tucson on Saturday to meet with her. He was shot in the knee and also wounded in the back. “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target,” Fuller says. “Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled.” [includes rush transcript]

Granted Fuller was a partisan before he got shot.   Not that there is anything wrong with that.  However did Fuller become a psychic after he got shot?

Lunacy, gun version, from Susie Madrak ,Crooks  & Lairs:

First of all, this isn’t my idea. It’s my oldest son’s, and he told me about it a few years ago when he was trying to figure out a way he could make money.  (Did I mention the kid is a genius? If you use this idea, you owe him.)

He said it made more sense to sidestep the entire gun control controversy and instead pass state laws that require anyone who owns a gun to carry insurance.  If they have risk factors (like teenagers in the house), their rates go up. If one of their kids sneaks a gun out of the house and gets caught, or uses it to commit a crime, the insurance gets canceled for some meaningful period of time — say, 10 years.

Why solve a problem that does not exist?  There is little need for gun insurance, because guns are already very we.   We have what two hundred million guns  in the nation, what a thousand gun deaths.  Wheres was have less motor vehicals, but far more accidental vehicle deaths.

War on Religion is killing us,  remember the Golden Rule?

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”

from a Secret Service study of what motivates assassins from Alix Spiegel, National Public Radio:

What emerges from the study is that rather than being politically motivated, many of the assassins and would-be assassins simply felt invisible. In the year before their attacks, most struggled with acute reversals and disappointment in their lives, which, the paper argues, was the true motive. They didn’t want to see themselves as nonentities.

I suggest that is better to be good than to be famous.  Obviously many killers have felt the exact opposite.    While we have an unlimited supply of goodness, fame is finite.   There simply isn’t enough time in life time to give three hundred million people their fifteen minutes of fame.

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Rush is Right, as usual, from Keach Hagey, Politico:

Glenn Beck and his colleagues on Fox News may have been complimentary of President Obama’s speech last night, but Rush Limbaugh sure wasn’t.
He criticized the timing of the memorial service on Wednesday, four days after the Tucson shootings, saying it should have happened sooner.

“The reason they waited as long as they did is they were waiting for polling data,” he said. “If they polling data had been different, the speech would have been different.”

To state the painfully obvious.   You do not need sports arena for a memorial service.   You do not need to print and distribute tee shirts for a memorial service.   On the other boot do need both an arena and free tee shirts for a political rally.    Further, if  you speaking from your heart, you don’t need to wait four days for polling results.  Obama Tucson speech been called his finest hour  Might be.

Pizza a proxy for politics? Ben Smith finds a new way to research a presidential canidate, from Politico:

Godfather’s Pizza gets mixed reviews

I’ve never had Godfather’s Pizza, which Herman Cain once headed up, but I asked for some reviews on Twitter just now. They were mixed

Nice work Ben.  Too bad you never displayed a much initiative about Barack Obama’s  college transcripts, law or medical records.

Jennifer Rubin

Jen’s advice to the left, from Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post:

So, for my friends on the left: facts count. You can’t spin a narrative and not be expected to be called on the underlying, flawed premise.

Later.

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@keder do you recall the left preaching ‘civil discourse’ after Reagan got capped? I don’t,

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As I type this, I’m in the sleeper of my truck. I have the net connectivity working, and so will now start being active on the blog again.

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