We are sliding...

The shooting today in Arizona is a direct result of Sarah Palin's nasty target map. Don't let her get away with this or back away from it. If there is any good to come of this, which I cannot imagine, perhaps the likes of Boehner and Cantor will back away just a bit from the tea-partiers and stop inciting violence. Their brutish combination of vitriol and gun-waving (and flag-waving) signals the end of our society if we ever had one. France seems nice...