Is it just me or has the democratic party been victim of a surprising number of acts of violence this season?

The tragic death of Bill Gwatney at the hands of a distraught man should not be seen as an isolated incident resulting from a completely innocuous sequence of events but as the logical result of the Machiavellian right’s systematic manipulation of the general public to blame the liberals in general and democrats in particular for all the country’s woe.

Completely ignoring the fact that, for the last eight years, they’ve successfully run this nation into the ground.

If you’ve lost your job, it has nothing to do with  catastrophic economic policies of the Bush regime, it’s because those heinous liberals have been secretly undermining the foundations of the economy by demanding worker’s rights! If oil prices are high, it’s entirely because those heathen tree-huggers won’t let our patriotic oil corporations, those paragons of civic-mindedness, to drill for oil in ANWR or offshore and has nothing to do with a catastrophic war in the middle-east against one oil-producing country and the idiotic sanctions against another.

The right-wing hate machine has been industriously feeding the seeds of tragedy for years. Of course, tragedies like this have nothing to do with their demented vitriol. After all, they only speak the truth against the evil, unpatriotic liberal media.