Say, didn’t President Barack Hussein Obama call for civility in American Politics at the Tucson Massacre Memorial Political Rally…err…I mean Service?

By the way did you get your TOGETHER WE THRIVE t-shirt yet?

What a noble sentiment.  especially, considering it was his political party and their minions in the Blood Libel Media who were accusing Sarah Palin and the rest of Conservatives in being duplicit in that horrendous tragedy.

Last Tuesday, debate began on the House floor over the pending vote on the repeal of Obamacare, which eventually passed in the House by a vote of 245 – 189.  That’s when Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat representing the 9th District of Tennessee, fired this salvo of civility toward the GOP:

Well, as you know, his remarks have set off a new round of political name calling.

This is the new civility?

HYPOCRISY ALERT!!!  The following statements are excerpts from an op ed that Cohen wrote for rollcall.com, posed 1/11/11:

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the target of a gunman who shot 20 people, killing 6, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and critically injuring Giffords and many others in Tucson, Ariz. While the shooter’s motives for targeting the Arizona Democrat are not known, initial information reveals that the 22-year-old suspect deeply distrusted his government.

For some time, I have been troubled by the hateful and often patently untrue words that enter the American mind via the Internet, talk radio and even mainstream media and the effect that they have on our society at large and on the fringe element particularly.

…Outrageous claims and outright lies designed to increase ratings and generate revenue by instilling fear and distrust of government could incite those who believe them to act violently.

…The tragic events in Tucson are not the first time we have seen the awful results of unwarranted distrust of our government. In 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City because of his consuming hatred and distrust of the government, killing 168 people, including 19 children under age 6. Less than a year ago, a disgruntled citizen flew his plane into an IRS building in Texas.

It is the responsibility of all who have a public platform to speak the truth. Reputable journalists and broadcasters, as well as all elected officials, must rededicate themselves to speaking the truth and exposing lies.

Death panels, government takeover of health care, bald-faced lies about our president’s country of birth or religion — these are the kind of despicable falsehoods that permeate our culture. They serve no purpose other than to incite contempt for our government.

Reckless and hateful speech often has a terrible human cost. If the horrific events in Arizona are not enough to modulate our public discourse, it is likely there will be more violence, more deaths. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima Country, Ariz., summed it up best as he has repeatedly mentioned the effect of the vitriol spewed by many on talk radio and some on television: “It may be freedom of speech, but it has consequences.”

Consequences, huh?  You don’t seem too worried about the consequences of your incendiary comments, Rep. Cohen.

Cohen released a statement of Thursday about his remarks on the House Floor.  All the Lib pundits are claiming he apologized.  Here is what this schmuck said.  You decide if it is an apology:

Taken out of context, I can understand the confusion and concern. In speaking about the Republican message of “government takeover of health care” that has been drummed into the heads of Americans and the media for more than a year, I referenced the non-partisan, Pulitzer prize-winning Politfact.com judgment that named the Republican message as the “2010 Lie of the Year.”

While I regret that anything I said has created an opportunity to distract from the debate about health care for 32 million Americans, I want to be clear that I never called Republicans Nazis. Instead, the reference I made was to the greatest propaganda master of all time. Propaganda, which is called “messaging” today, can be true or false. In this case, the message is false.

I would certainly never do anything to diminish the horror of the Nazi Holocaust as I revere and respect the history of my people. I sponsored legislation which created one of the first state Holocaust Commissions in America and actively served as a Commission member for over 20 years. I regret that anyone in the Jewish Community, my Republican colleagues or anyone else was offended by the portrayal of my comments. My comments were not directed toward any group or people but at the false message and, specifically, the method by which is has been delivered.

It is disappointing that my comments have been used to distract from the health care reform debate. It is my hope that we can return our focus to the matter at hand-health care for 32 million Americans.

No surprise.  After all, this is the same white, Jewish bachelor who claimed that he votes like a 45-year-old black woman. 

And, he said this last April, as reported on foxnews.com:

Rep. Steve Cohen is the latest public official to suggest Tea Party supporters have a racist agenda, telling an Internet radio show last week that the activists have shown a “hardcore angry side” of the country, only “without robes and hoods.”

On a program called “The Young Turks” on Thursday, the Democratic Tennessee congressman said Tea Party groups show “opposition to African Americans, hostility toward gays, hostility to anybody who wasn’t just a clone of George Wallace’s fan club.” Wallace is the late former Alabama governor, and presidential candidate, well-known for opposing desegregation.

Gosh.   The New Civility sounds just like the Same Old Harsh Political Rhetoric…doesn’t it?