SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER TOLD THE STATE OF THE UNION'S HOST: "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BROUGHT IT UP" (SUNDAY, 1.9.11)

The feisty old man, Tennessee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander, Conference Chairman, argued with C.C. on State of the Nation, that she "should not be talking about what happened yesterday," Sat. 1-8-10, in relation to the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, etc. ("You should not have brought it up").  He was very adamant about it, and I could see he was getting up a little steam.


Examples of his (1) attempt to pass the buck - to the other side for anyone who listens; (2) being somewhere in la la land when he should have been "present" and in the moment; (3) attempts to overthrow(!) the Host's (Candy Crowley) agenda and command of things, I suggest.

(1) I noticed that he was attempting to steer the focus of anybody's eyes he could manipulate into seeing the culprit as anything but one of them.  Others have already done it, and he, too, listed all the man's "favs," especially Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto, and Hitler's autobiography.  He repeated this scenario twice.  Thus any dunce knows that he must be a non-conservative.  Further, "He burned the American flag," which he considers atypical of a conservative.


Any serious reader should be familiar with all the literature Jerad Loughner favs, but that DOES NOT make one adhere to the notions or doctrines of any reading list.  It really means that they are well read or avid readers.  He could have named those books and never read one page of them.  Given  by the way he "speels" and shifts tenses, etc., one could deduce that it is plausible.   Most Liberals are not (I hope none at all) the KKK, or Nazi (Facist) who do burn flags.  Further, we must admit that the majority of these ARE CONSERVATIVE.  

Philosophically, Conservatives burn the flag in many ways, while upholding the Constitution, which many of them probably have not even read.  (They just try to "play by ear.")   I know, I am familiar with a few of them.  Their main concern is to pervert their fav heartthrobs, Amendments 1, 4, & 14.  Some of them are out to confiscate the 14th Amendment and make it do whatever THEY will it to do, if they can.  They also tamper with Civil Rights Amendment of 1964 (when they can) and the Nineteenth Amendment, which freed women to work on becoming FREE-R.  A Democrat did not purport that the Constitution does not protect women ....  I digressed a little, I think.

(2)  "Well, Candy, I think you are you are (a repeat) responsible by bring this up - of doing the very thing you're trying to condemn."   Of course, she DID NOT bring it up, but Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Democratic Majority Whip, did, using it as an example of possible scenarios I believe.  For example, he directly mentioned Alaska's rifle woman with the caustic political PAC and the word "crosshairs."   That map includes Rep Giffords in the crosshairs as one of the targets(!), and encourages her constituents to take aim ("target") and shoot, in a sense.


Senator Alexander's main focus of course is that the Tea Party Republicans and other Republicans never be associated with this assassination attempt.   Also, someone has said somewhere that this map, for example, is 10 months old, and what possible connection would it have to do with this tragedy.  If one thought it through, it must be admitted that the assumption does not necessarily mean much.   For example, from the conception to birth/death is a zero to x-months manifestation period.  Just because it died down does not mean it was forgotten - it could just as well be incubating in many abscessed places in the human psychic.  

(3)   "I think the way to get away from it is for you not to be talking about it."  NOW, NOTICE that is a bad habit cultivated by some people to keep us SILENT about anything uncomfortable or taboo (for some reason).  But the time is long past for those who COUNT to keep silent.  There's a slogan, a powerful, daring, and commanding one heard lots on LINKTV.ORG:  WE SHALL NOT BE SILENT.  That means something.  Even Representative Giffords would not be silent; she spoke out against that imagery.


Some examples of what it possibly means when someone wants to silence us (or when we want to avoid responsibility and silence ourselves): we should: "shut up," "mind your own business," "you should not be talking about it," "that subject is off limits," "God is not in this," "God is not here, just us" (so we can fight all night and day) - you can fill in all the blanks if any.  Anyway, one who wants to silence someone must be mum about how to do it; an entity who wants to kill secretly will silence the weapon before silencing the TARGET - unless he/she wants the attention the noise will draw.