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The tragedy of an Arizona Democratic Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, unfolds.

One thing for certain is that she was listed on Sarah Palin's "Crosshairs" map during her "Lock and Load" campaign:

Ezra Klein was just writing yesterday about the responsibility that rests with the Republican Party on trying to ratchet down the rhetoric with regard to the antipathy towards the Health Care bill:

Many of my friends on the right have legitimate technocratic differences with the Affordable Care Act. But many of the politicians they've stood with have not made a legitimate case against the bill. Rather, they've taken a bill that echoes past legislation Republicans have introduced (see RomneyCare, which is what Obamacare is predicated) and called it, as Sen. Jon Kyl did, "a stunning threat to liberty." They've told their supporters, as Sen, Chuck Grassley did, that they're right to fear that the health-care bill "determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma." This is not merely legislation that they have some technical or philosophical disagreements with. It is, in the words of Speaker John Boehner, "a monstrosity."

And now, the Wyoming state legislature has introduced a law that makes it a felony to implement the health-care reform law. As Ezra Klein writes:

There's not much use in worrying about something like this as it wouldn't survive two seconds in a court of law. But the sentiments are worth considering: The argument is that this legislation isn't just policy that the authors disagree with, but rather a deeply, profoundly, un-American threat to liberty. It's so un-American, in fact, that a plain reading of the Constitution makes clear that the Wyoming legislature, which has sworn to protect and defend the document, must "adopt and enact any and all measures as may be necessary within the borders of Wyoming to prevent the enforcement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010."

And Krugman clearly points out:

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we're going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it's long past time for the GOP's leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

It looks like this man is a highly unstable military-guy wannabe who is paranoid and anti-government:

And here's Gabrielle Giffords talking about the repercussions of being on Sarah Palin's "Lock & Load" list:

"We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list," Ms. Giffords said last March. "But the thing is the way that she has it depicted has the cross hairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize there's consequences to that."-- March 25th, MSNBC

Here it is on video:

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This is a big, big deal...

Watch how FoxNews cuts away from this vigil the second Sarah Palin's name is mentioned:

Postscript: Watch Obama's masterful speech in Tuscon here, during the main memorial service.

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