You know it’s a bad sign when Jonah Goldberg thinks your rhetorical flourish has crossed the line.
Today has been set aside to honor the victims of the Tucson massacre. And Sarah Palin has apparently decided she’s one of them.
Sharron Angle, on the Tucson attack: “The irresponsible assignment of blame to me, Sarah Palin or the TEA Party movement by commentators and elected officials puts all who gather to redress grievances in danger.”
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC): “You know, Sarah Palin just can’t seem to get it, on any front. I think she’s an attractive person, she is articulate. But I think intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what’s going on here.”
Colorado school board member (and radio station owner) starts bringing his gun to school board meetings because of the threats he’s claimed to have received over his radio commentaries calling Martin Luther King, Jr., a “sexual degenerate,” an “America-hating communist” and a “plastic god.”
South Carolina gun manufacturer engraving “You lie!” on gun component to “honor our esteemed congressman Joe Wilson.”
“Only 999 of these will be produced, get yours before they are gone!”
Sarah Palin: Journalists and pundits have manufactured a “blood libel” against me. Watch.
We sent our Evan McMorris-Santoro to Tucson Sunday morning to cover the aftermath the Giffords’ shooting. You can see his reports here.
The office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has released two photos of Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly clasping Giffords’ hand in the hospital ICU.
Tim Pawlenty’s considered by many an obvious presidential contender. And yet he’s got a very difficult path to the nomination. His efforts at positioning, as a relatively moderate governor trying to position himself in a hard-right era in the GOP, can be a downright painful.
Here he is this morning defending Sarah Palin on crosshairs but saying he wouldn’t use them because it’s not “my style.” Then this afternoon he’s saying that he’s so gung-ho on government shutdowns that he thinks maybe he should have shut down his own state’s government even longer than he did. Said Pawlenty: “One of things I wonder is whether I should have let the shut down run longer to get more of my agenda through.”
I have the sense Pawlenty’s trail to the White House is going to be both exceedingly long and very short.