All quiet on the civility front

It was only a few weeks ago but yet it seems like ages. We were being lectured on civility by a horde of talking heads and pundits. The hordes have since fallen silent though much incivility has occurred. All quiet on the civility front. The guns are silent. Pundits AWOL. Hysterical TV anchors and anchorettes mum. As if it was long, long ago in a different era.

Their silence about civility is, one suspect, the silence of support even as we are getting lessons in goodwill from the left-



Rhode Island union supporter to cameraman – “I’ll f**k you in the ass, you faggot”

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Union Protester Berates Jewish FreedomWorks Employee: ‘You Are a Bad Jew!’

Dem Rep to unions: Time to get ‘bloody’

They pushed and shoved until he fell on the ice, screaming the whole time to get the “F**K”out of here, they took the elderly man, pushing and shoving him
 

Elderly 'Teabaggers' Not Dying 'Fast Enough' Laments Libtalker Mike Papantonio

CWA union thug strikes young female FreedomWorks activist Tabitha Hale

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As John Hinderaker put it-

So that's what the Democratic Party meant by "civility!" If they had made that clear in the beginning, it would have saved a lot of trouble.

The cactus president

This man needs a large dose of Nycil for all that prickliness-

In perhaps his touchiest press conference yet, President Obama reiterated his opposition to the extension of current tax rates on top-earners, while defending a deal he brokered with Republicans that would do just that. 

A prickly Obama, at times raising his voice, called Senate Republicans “hostage-takers” and “bomb-throwers” for opposing his agenda, and said critics on the Left who portray him as weak on core issues are “sanctimonious.”

“Hostage-takers” and “bomb-throwers” ??!  Now, that is civility that Obama once pretended to strive for.

Obama?

Compare his testiness to the soberness with George W.Bush faced an invariably hostile press. No wonder he is more popular now than the thorn-man that followed him.