Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The new civility: Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA) to unions: Time to get ‘BLOODY’

UPDATE #2: The video:
The "New Civility" of the Democratic Party
This must be that new civility the Democrats have been pushing since the Arizona shooting. Of course that was then when it served their purpose of shutting up conservatives. But since Scott Walker proposed reining in runaway spending on unsustainable union benefits, it's all out war, and the violent rhetoric was launched full-force by Democrats and their allies. Cross hairs on Gov Walker, Hitler comparisons, etc. Cataloged for you:
And now this. Form NH Journal via Instapundit: Dem Rep to unions: Time to get ‘bloody’
A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.”

“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) told a crowd in Boston on Tuesday rallying in solidarity for Wisconsin union members.
But this quote is in my opinion the most ironic and hypocritical given that Capuanois pro-abortion:
This is not Capuano’s first brush with violent rhetoric. Last month Capuano said, “Politicians, I think are too bland today. I don’t know what they believe in. Nothing wrong with throwing a coffee cup at someone if you’re doing it for human rights.”
Plus from DaTechGuy: The Ultimate Irony of Today’s Rally In Boston.
UPDATE: More at memeorandum. Additional commentary from Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, protein wisdom, The Other McCainPundit & Pundette, The Daily Caller and Confederate Yankee

UPDATE #3:  Via Instapundit:
James Taranto comments:

It will not surprise you to learn that Capuano is another “civility” hypocrite. On Jan. 9, the day after a madman in Tucson, Ariz., got a little bloody, the Globe quoted him: “What the hell is going on? There’s always some degree of tension in politics; everybody knows the last couple of years there’s been an intentional increase in the degree of heat in political discourse. . . . If nothing else good comes out of this, I’m hoping it causes people to reconsider how they deal with things.”
Not so much, apparently. Plus this:

Capuano’s rhetoric at yesterday’s rally was not just violent but authoritarian. He urged government employees to “get a little bloody”–to commit violent acts against citizens, as if this were Libya. As we noted yesterday, public sector “collective bargaining,” in which public officials “negotiate” with the unions that helped elect them, is essentially a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers. Capuano, it seems, would like to escalate that to armed robbery.
That's exactly right too. From another post: "Public employees unions are organized against the might and greed . . . of the public?"

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