Republican chickens come home to roost in Tucson

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Alexander Cockburn: After two years of violent rhetoric, someone on the right was bound to shoot a Democrat

Six dead and Gabrielle Giffords, a 40-year old congresswoman, hanging to life by a thread. In the wake of the lethal fusillade in Tucson, Republicans came close to confessing to complicity by reason of incitement. Sarah Palin pulled her cross-hair go-shoot'em target pics of Democrats from her site. Republicans in Congress suspended their opening political onslaught for a week. The right-wing commentators settled down to a steady chorus about Jared Lee Loughner being a lone nut, maybe even a secret Commie.

In the relentless escalation in violent political rhetoric across the past couple of years, it's been a pretty safe bet that sooner or later someone on the right would try to shoot a Democrat, the preferred target being President Barack Obama. But Obama doesn't sit in a parking lot outside a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, minus bodyguards, chatting to all and sundry.

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The republican worming and squirming in denial will be in full force this week.