January 14, 2011 12:34 AM UTC

Coffman and Udall Butt Heads

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• by: Mike Collins

denver and the west

Udall to Congress: United we should sit for Obama’s speech

By Allison Sherry

The Denver Post

WASHINGTON – Sen. Mark Udall urged Republicans and Democrats to sit together in mixed company during the Jan. 25 State of the Union address in hopes of ending “an arrangement that has become a negative symbol of the divisions in Congress.”

“What I’ve been hearing by a number of Democrats is that the heat of the rhetoric over the last two years led to the conduct of a sociopathic killer last Saturday,” said Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., who will not sign Udall’s letter. “I completely disagree with that. … I think the American people over the last couple years have the right to be upset over what has gone on.”

Denver Post

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I see some ambiguity between the denial of cause and the declaration that American people have a right to be upset.  Are sociopaths immune to rhetoric?  Maybe those without AM radio or Fox News.  After all Roger Ailes made a call to tone it down and Sarah Palin started barking way too soon in declaring her victimhood.  

The following quotes don’t meet the parameters of the two years Coffman mentions, but they are noteworthy and I have seen no evidence that these individuals are backing off.  I turned on KOA the night of the speech (yeah, I held my nose and plugged one ear) to see what reaction might be garnered by what I considered a good speech.  Lo and behold, Michael Brown was spewing and agitating.  The quotes:

“I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus – living fossils – so we will never forget what these people stood for.”

– Rush Limbaugh, Denver Post, 12-29-95

“Get rid of the guy. Impeach him, censure him, assassinate him.”

– Rep. James Hansen (R-UT), talking about President Clinton

“We’re going to keep building the party until we’re hunting Democrats with dogs.”

– Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), Mother Jones, 08-95

“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building.”

– Ann Coulter, New York Observer, 08-26-02

“We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”

– Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, 02-26-02

“Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law, in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of the past – I’m not arguing for despotism as a principle, but they sure knew how to deal with potential trouble – recognized that the families of objectionable citizens were a continuing threat. In Stalin’s penal code it was a crime to be the wife or child of an ‘enemy of the people.’ The Nazis used the same principle, which they called Sippenhaft, ‘clan liability.’ In Imperial China, enemies of the state were punished ‘to the ninth degree’: that is, everyone in the offender’s own generation would be killed and everyone related via four generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and four generations down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed.”

– John Derbyshire, National Review, 02-15-01

“Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) can be directly traced back to our departure from God’s Law and the disenfranchisement of White men.”

– State Rep. Don Davis (R-NC), emailed to every member of the North Carolina House and Senate, reported by the Fayetteville Observer, 08-22-01