THERE HE GOES AGAIN – AT 9:27 P.M. ET:  Bill Clinton, who by now should know better, is off on another campaign to brand the tea partiers as dangerous people.  Shame, shame, shame:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton warned of a slippery slope from angry anti-government rhetoric to violence like the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, saying "the words we use really do matter."

This is really vile.  First, the tea partiers aren't anti-government.  They're anti wasteful government, dishonest government, and incompetent government.  Second, the "slippery slope" argument doesn't wash, and never has.  Third, how about some equal rhetoric directed at those who called President Bush a Nazi...or, who called Bill Clinton a racist during the Democratic primaries of 2008?

The two-term Democratic president insisted he wasn't trying to restrict free speech, but in remarks Friday he said incendiary language can be taken the wrong way by some Americans. He drew parallels to words demonizing the government before Oklahoma City.

Almost any language can be taken the wrong way.  And the violent individual doesn't need incendiary language.  What incendiary language motivated Lee Harvey Oswald?

On April 19, 1995, an anti-government conspiracy led by Army veteran Timothy McVeigh exploded a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people.

Wrong.  It wasn't an anti-government conspiracy.  It was directed specifically against the United States Government as these twisted souls saw it.

"What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold - but that the words we use really do matter, because there's this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike," he said.

What strikes me about this Democratic crowd is how patronizing its members are.  And, of course, the most patronizing are the ones who went to the "right" schools.  At one time, it was Republicans who acted that way.  What a role reversal.

"One of the things that the conservatives have always brought to the table in America is a reminder that no law can replace personal responsibility. And the more power you have and the more influence you have, the more responsibility you have."

Yes, and it applies to all sides, Bill.  And maybe you ought to direct your attention to the jihadists and their sympathizers, who really do plan violence, and carry it out.  We didn't hear much from you, Mr. President, after Fort Hood.

April 16, 2010