With belated sanctimony

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With belated sanctimony, the opportunists who gleefully exploited the violent imagery of armed patriots rising up against a tyrannical government, thereby seeking to appeal to the childish vanity of political nitwits, now offer their "prayers" and platitudes about a "senseless" act of actual violence.

Now Speaker John Boehner says "an attack on one . . . is an attack on all"; but last spring he was playing the game with the best of them, terming the Obama health care reform "Armageddon" and taunting one Democrat who supported it that he was "a dead man," suggesting the congressman would not dare show his face back in his home district.

When a man flew a light plane into an IRS center in Texas last February, killing a dedicated federal employee and military veteran, Republican Steve King of Iowa declared that he felt "empathy" for the kamikaze taxpayer. (King explained that he, too was "frustrated" by the IRS, and suggested that these things would not happen if we adopted a national sales tax to replace the income tax and the IRS. The following month, the congressman was whipping up the crowd at a tea party rally shouting, “Let’s beat the other side to a pulp! Let’s chase them down! There’s going to be a reckoning.”)

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