Congress on Your Corner
Ezra Klein has just made a wonderful suggestion that should be followed in every congressional district everywhere in this country.
One way to pay tribute to those harmed at Giffords’ “Congress on your corner” event: Attend your congressperson’s next community meeting.
Congressman John Carney, meet us next Saturday in Rodney Square. It is time to take our country back from the violence.
The child murdered today in cold blood, a nine year old named Christina Taylor Green, was just elected to the student council at her school. She studied ballet and played baseball. She was invited to the Giffords event today by a neighbor who thought, given her recent election to the student council, that she would enjoy it.
Heartbreaking.
And in one of history’s ironies, Ms. Green was born on….
September 11, 2001.
Is Congressman Carney having a Sussex County event?
Only if the Teabaggers can guarantee that he will come back alive.
What are you guys talking about? This is a horrible crime. We all deplore it. I don’t understand the logic of attending meetings as a tribute to someone must of us never heard of before today. I think the best tribute is to pray for the victims and families.
This guy was weird. A lover of the Communist Manifesto and did not like the Bible. I guess we could burn the Communist Manifesto as a tribute. That would make as much sense. I think this is not an issue about politics, but a senseless tragedy. Who knows? The portrait will develop over time.
Yes, attend the town hall, but do so because it is good to do. If you want to do it as a tribute. That is fine, I just don’t understand it.
I love how David believes burning books is a tribute.
And notice how David ignores other books this terrorist loved. Like Ayn Rand. And his comments about the Bible were the first I heard that the terrorist hated the Bible.
Whatever.
Hey, David, make this pledge with me: I will never again use violent imagery or threats of violence in any context again, and I will condemn anyone who does so. I ask that Sarah Palin and other right wing commentators and Tea Party candidates apologize for their violent rhetoric over the last two years.
Hey David, condemn all of this: http://delawareliberal.net//2011/01/08/the-compilation/
As always I condemn political violence and threat of poltical violence as an assault on both human dignity and our constitutional system. The truth is I don’t like any violence. I never made violent threats before, but I gladly join you in pledging “I will never again use threats of violence in any context”. I do condemn its use, but I don’t plan to take all of my time finding people who do. When it is newsworthy, I will.
As for making typical rhetoric of campaigns somehow violent imagery, I don’t go there. I stand by the right of free speech and metaphors. That is a very different animal. I think it is fine. Politics is war without bloodshed as Eleanor Cliff wrote. I have no issue with it now or ever. There is no need to overreact. It will not change the wacky people. Politics gives us a place to direct our frustrations in useful ways. Trying to bury it will just have the opposite effect that you want.
“Only if the Teabaggers can guarantee that he will come back alive.”
Comments like that do not improve the situation.
It may not, but it is a serious concern now. Those who have taken up arms to take their country back are going to have to prove to me that they have put down those arms.
And so far they haven’t. The tea party has already said the violent rhetoric will continue.
And that does not improve the situation, David.
You can’t control them, but you can control yourself and whether you decide to make it better or worse.