Arizona thoughts

MANIFESTO

The Giffords situation has allowed Glenn Beck to increase his hysteria and attest that "an attempt on [Sarah Palin] could bring the republic down." His attitude is beneath contempt.

While all this tripe is going on, the cowardly conservatives see the murderous episode as one more example of terrorism and another chance to decrease civil liberties.

Finally, it's been left to Tucson's sheriff to call it as he sees it: that the Limbaughs and the Becks of the world are at least partly responsible for provoking these nutjobs into acts of violence.

UPDATE — Andrew Sullivan elucidates.