The fallacy of civility.

I hear a great deal about the tone of this blog, some small amount of it directly... but the vast majority of it indirectly.

There are a wide variety of people, both elected and non-elected political types, particularly in the GOP, who want me shut off and shut up.

There are some who are rank hypocrites. They write newspaper columns; and then there are others who are complete scummy slimeballs who engage in far worse then I with their meager efforts, but then have joined the "Amen Chorus" in condemning both what I write and me personally.

They cut their favorites slack (after all, I've never been arrested for domestic violence, for example.) but they attack me personally... not so much for what I write, (although there are a not inconsiderable group in the GOP who would love to see me get hit by a bus... right Jon? Isn't that how you put it?) but how I write it.

Most recently, we've been plastered with civility as a result of the Tucson shootings. But what good did it do?

The left immediately attacked, unhesitatingly using this tragedy for political gain, one of the most vile possible things any person or group could do.

The blood wasn't even washed out of the parking lot before total scumbags like Kos began to blame Sarah Palin... and the left joined in.

Palin is not the brightest political bulb on the tree, but I would rather have her in the White House then the empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot currently occupying it.

But the left and the lamestream media (One and the same, actually) saw the opportunity and took it... the blood of a little girl notwithstanding.

Civility went out the window. The President demanded it at his campaign rally in Tucson... and has maintained his silence in the face of some of the most vituperative attacks imaginable.

If a scumbag congressman were to call me a Nazi to my face, he'd likely get decked. Yet yesterday's manure spreading session by that idiot from Tennessee evoked a yawn, if that, from those who were so quick to blame the right, and the Tea Party, and Palin, and Rush for what that leftist did when he shot and murdered those people in a Safeway parking lot.

It wasn't the first Nazi reference the leftist scum have used. So, while they want to constrain the right with civility... they aren't particularly interested in applying that standard to themselves.

Here's Doug Ross's take, on the money as usual.

Democrat: 'I Told You to Be Civil, you Right Wing Nazis!'

You might have assumed that Democrats are setting a new tone in Washington after last week's tragedy in Tucson. But you'd have assumed wrong. After all, long, storied history is one of extreme, violent rhetoric and -- as could have been predicted -- their recent calls for civility were short-lived indeed.

In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

“They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels,” Cohen said. “You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and
eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing. And Congressman Cohen didn’t stop there.

“The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it–believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,” Cohen said.Gee, schmuck, you mean lies like these?

• If you like your current health care plan, you can keep it.

• Your premiums will go down an average of $2,500 a year.

• Health care reform will help businesses.

• Health care reform won’t add 'a single dime' to the deficit—and will actually cut
it!

• Ninety-five percent of Americans will not see any form of tax increase because of Obamacare.

• There will be no government rationing of medical care!

• Obamacare will not allow for funding of abortions with taxpayer money.

• Health care negotiations will occur in public and will even be seen on CSpan.
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Now, was someone talking about a comparison to Goebbels?

I've been civil. Those to the right of Lenin have been civil.

And what has it gotten us?

The kind of crap where those who disagree are likened to Nazis on the floor of the House of Representatives of the United States of America.

I'm not surprised by this sort of thing. Ever since Dick Durbin, number 2 on the democrat side of the Senate, got away with comparing the US Army with Nazis and suffered no penalty for that Blood Libel (Heh. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.) of any kind, it's been open season on this kind of crap.

The fringe left pushes and pushes and pushes. Because there's no push back.

Well, *I* push back.

But to me, it's not leftist corruption. It's government corruption.

So, when someone in government lies to us, left or right, I toss civility out the window.

After all, when government abuses their power... in-debts us for generations... screws up foreign and domestic policy to a level that's approaching "non-repariable..." how civil is that?