Today DNC Chair and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (DWS) gives us the latest
outrage against the Tea Party.
In response to a question about a lack of civility in Congress,
DWS' initial response was, "We need to make sure that we
tone things down, particularly in
light of the Tucson tragedy from a year ago..."
It is
sick and disgusting for DWS to dredge up the
slanderous and infamously false accusation that somehow political rhetoric -
especially from the Tea Party - inspired the Arizona shootings that almost killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
To follow this she talks about the discourse in America and Congress and says, "
I hesitate to place blame [YEAH, RIGHT!!!], but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards
edginess and lack of civility with the growth of the
Tea Party movement."
She continued, "You had town hall meetings that they
tried to take over, and you saw some their
conduct at those tea party meetings."
Seriously?? DWS is condemning the many
constituents who
expressed their opposition to bills like Obamacare to the
officials elected to represent them?!
The Tea Parties not only were
peaceful protests by law-abiding Americans petitioning their government, but they were
convents compared to the
filth and lawlessness coming out of the Occupy Wall Street movement that she
supports.
Of these
thugs, whose rhetoric has actually included calls for
the murder of elected officials, DWS
said on January 3, 2012: "I’ve been
publicly supportive of them. I think that they are
well within their rights to be frustrated.” (But apparently the Tea Party activists who
took to Town Hall meetings to vent their frustrations were
NOT within their rights.)
DWS conveniently ignores the
REAL crimes perpetrated by OWS, including
murder, rape, and theft - not to mention the
trespassing and health violations inherent in their permit-less occupations. Assault and threats are common at the encampments and arrests have been in the thousands. Just today, the WaPo carried this headline:
Child cruelty charge after baby found alone in Occupy camp.
Instead of railing against
imagined Tea Party boogeymen, maybe DWS needs to take a look at at the
real monsters in her midst.
Related post: 8+ Defamations and Threats Against Tea Party in Last Month
Update: I was alerted through reading Sundries Shack that DWS tweeted a response to the RNC Chair's tweet calling for her to apologize by saying that those outraged by her comment lacked civility:
So apparently, to quote
@PoliticalMath, "if you quote @DWStweets on incivility, that's proof of your incivility." Pot, meet kettle.
And
Verum Serum says:
The real question is this: What is the connection between political civility and the irrational actions of a diagnosed schizophrenic, i.e. Jared Loughner? Answer: There isn’t one. That’s why people like me are bent out of shape by Tucson being bandied about in this context.
Simply put, civility or lack thereof had nothing whatsoever to do with Tucson. That may not have been clear in the early days when hacks like Paul Krugman were stumbling all over themselves to lay blame at the feet of folks on the right, but it’s clear now. Given the facts, we’re not having any more of this nonsense from the left.
Precisely!
