Hagbard,

You can be totally sincere and still be melodramatic and unreasonable.

To correct some of those on the right though:

She wasn't talking about violence that has occurred. She was talking about violence that she suggests WILL occur due to the rhetoric being used on the right.

However, I think she needs to spend less time addressing the perceived problems on the right and address her own house (not House as in Congress). The violence from that side isn't hypothetical. It has occurred on multiple occasions via the SEIU and ACORN thugs.

Isn't defunding ACORN and the Baucus bill a big enough FU to those groups for you?

#8 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2009-09-18 12:07 AM

Well, lets see. If the Mafia was getting choice contracts in connection with corrupt practices, would it be enough for you just to see that one aspect of their business dried up? Or, like me, would you want to see a serious effort to bust ALL of their corrupt enterprises and shut them down?

I think this is a good start if you take it on face value, but I don't think it should end there. So no, it isn't enough to suit me.

In addition, I think this is a token move. I wouldn't be surprised, as was already suggested, that the funding will continue buried in labyrinthine bill... most likely not to ACORN directly but to one of their many front organizations.

Your mafia analogy jumps into extreme hyperbole. ACORN and SEIU don't engage in murder, as far as I'm aware, Mooma.

Racketeering and widespread corruption is enough warrant giving an organization the axe. Murder need not be a part of it. Notice I never suggested murder in my example, merely the corruption. Your murder argument was a straw man.