Re "Many in G.O.P. Remain Bullish in Face of Loss" (front page, May 31): While I do not condone either Senator James M. Jeffords's defection from the Republican Party or the right-wing response, let's stop the blame game.
IF some aspects of the Occupy Wall Street protest feel predictable — the drum circles, the signs, including "Tax Wall Street Transactions" and "End the FED" — so does the right-wing response.
(Not that we're doing so great on race: Birthers. Or class: Typical right-wing response to Occupiers voicing legitimate concerns about income inequality, "Get a job!") I don't even need to reach back to the Herman Cain blame-the-victim carnival to make my case.
The right-wing response to Infowars' reporting has been alarmingly intense.
The right-wing response to all this is predictably callous: the stimulus, they argue, was bad because school closings and job cuts should have happened sooner.
In my previous blog for Huffington Post, I expressed my dissatisfaction for the reactionary right wing's response, which opposes the very nature of our nation's values: liberty and tolerance.
7 News reporter @jodilee_7 has been granted exclusive access to a secret meeting organised by right wing activists in response to Melbourne's African youth crime crisis.
In response, right wing radio blowhard Limbaugh over the weekend attacked Clinton and warned, "You have just set the stage for violence in this country.
In response to the right wing and far right's manipulative reaction to Wednesday's attack and the inevitable doubling down of repressive state powers to follow reasoned and empirical debate is unlikely to get us very far.
The megaphone stridency of Pakistan's right wing has met a pathetic political response.
As we continue to celebrate the historic vote on health care reform (and continue to lament the right-wing's response of threats and violent rhetoric), it's important to remember that we're just three days away from the end of the pivotal first fundraising quarter of 2010.
