[Tex]

Since the Left worked overtime to try and blame the horrific Giffords shooting on Sarah Palin and/or the Right (are they crosshairs or surveyors symbols??), I've been keeping track of the "new tone" that Obama called on us to use.

"Independent" ute4ever's casual use of one of the terms made me think it's time to post the results so far:

• Apr 8, 2011, Louise Slaughter (D-NY) on the Republican budget: "Now they are here kill women"
• Apr 8, 2011, Pelosi on the Republican budget: R's are here to wage "war on women"
• Apr 8, 2011, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC delegate) Gov't shutdown the "functional equivalent of bombing civilians."
• May 31, 2011, Jonathan Chait: Tea Party is "Hezbollah wing" of the GOP
• Jul 5, 2011, Chris Matthews: GOP is the Wahabis of American government
• Jul 6, 2011, Tina Brown (Newsweek Editor): GOP is "suicide bombers"
• Jul 25, 2011, Peter Goodman (HuffPo columnist): GOP is "acting like terrorists. Yes, terrorists." The coward then removed the analogy from his published column.
• Jul 26, 2011, Tom Friedman, NY Times: Tea Party is "Hezbollah faction" of the GOP
• Jul 27, 2011, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz: House GOP "is almost like a dictatorship" ... "pushing their people to inflict pain and hurt people."
• Jul 28, 2011, Van Jones: Tea Party putting a "gun to the head of 310 million people"
• Jul 28, 2011, Paul Krugman: Tea Party has "taken America hostage"
• Jul 29, 2011, Steve Rattner, former Obama "car czar": Tea Party is "form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, 'either you do it my way, or we're going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us."
• Jul 29, 2011, William Yeomans (American U. law professor) in the Politico: Tea Partiers are "full-blown terrorists"
• Jul 30, 2011, Maureen Dowd (NY Times columnist) calls Tea Partiers "political suicide bombers"
• Jul 30, 2011, Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls GOP "kamikaze pilots"
• Jul 31, 2011, Margaret Carlson (Bloomberg reporter): Tea Partiers "strapped explosives to the capitol"
• Aug 1, 2011, Mike Doyle (D-PA): "we negotiated with terrorists" and "This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money."
  same story, Joe Biden: "They have acted like terrorists." (which he later denied saying)
• Aug 2, 2011, Maureen Dowd: Tea Partiers are "cannibals," "vampires," "zombies," "like the metallic beasts in 'Alien'"
  Aug 4, 2011, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), says FAA issue is one of "hostage taking," ... that Republicans are putting "a gun to your head" (complete with hand-gun-to-the-head gesture!)

President Obama, we turn our lonely eyes to you, January 13, 2011:

And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their death helps usher in more civility in our public discourse, let us remember it is not because a simple lack of civility caused this tragedy -- it did not -- but rather because only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation in a way that would make them proud.

So much for that.