Yesterday morning, America witnessed another incident of “workplace violence”. Only this time, it occurred right in the heart of our nation’s capital, at the U.S. Navy Yard.

The Washington Post reports that

…13 people are dead and 14 others were injured after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Navy officials said, spreading fear and chaos across the region as authorities sought to contain the panic.

The incident, in which the death toll rose almost hourly, represents the single worst loss of life in the District since an airliner plunged into the Potomac River in 1982, killing 78.

D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier and Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced the mounting number of casualties in a series of news conferences. The suspected shooter, identified by the FBI as Aaron Alexis, 34, living in Fort Worth, is among the 13 dead. Alexis was a military contractor, one official said.

But even hours after the rampage began, it was still unclear whether the shooting was the act of a lone gunman, or if other shooters were involved. Lanier initially said authorities were looking for two more potential shooters dressed in military style clothing. But shortly after she announced a detailed description of two suspects, city officials said one had been located and cleared.

Lanier described the other possible suspect, who has not been located, as a black man in his 40s with gray sideburns, wearing an olive-drab military-style uniform. He, and the man who was cleared, came under suspicion when they were seen on surveillance videos.

Police are asking anyone with information on the suspect to call 202-727-9099.

Gray said no motive is known yet. He said there is no reason to believe it was an act of terrorism, though he added that he could not rule it out.

Gray said that in addition to those killed, about a dozen people were hurt. Later in the evening Vice Adm. Bill French said the number of injured was 14.

It was not clear whether those people were shot or suffered other injuries.

Pentagon officials said the Navy will wait 24 hours before releasing the names of people killed in the attack.

As of 8:30 p.m. Monday, Navy officials said about 2,000 people remained on base, and that it could take another 3-4 hours before everyone was cleared to leave.

The FBI was still interviewing every person leaving the base out of concern that a second suspect may still be at large, French said. And SWAT teams are still finding people hiding in places on the base, where some had remained hunkered down since the initial attack early Monday morning. One city officials said that shortly before 7 p.m., officers found an employee hiding in a locker, where the employee had been for nearly 11 hours.

Throughout the day, people had been warned to stay in their homes and offices on the Naval Base as the incident unfolded.

Alexis was armed with an assault rifle and a handgun, two law enforcement officials said. One said he also had a shotgun. One official said all the weapons have not been accounted for.

Shortly after the massacre, President Barack Hussein Obama came out to deliver a previously scheduled speech on the Economy. He prefaced his prepared speech, with brief remarks on the Navy Yard Massacre, before launching into one of his usual partisan, didactic lectures about how he, the Lightbringer, could fix this rotten economy (which he is responsible for), if Republicans would just shut up and get out of his way.

What happens up on Capitol Hill is going to help determine not only the pace of our growth, but also the quality of jobs, the quality of opportunity for this generation and future generations.

The problem is at the moment, Republicans in Congress don’t seem to be focused on how to grow the economy and build the middle class. I say “at the moment” because I’m still hoping that a light bulb goes off here. (Laughter.)

So far, their budget ideas revolve primarily around even deeper cuts to education, even deeper cuts that would gut America’s scientific research and development, even deeper cuts to America’s infrastructure investment — our roads, our bridges, our schools, our energy grid. These aren’t the policies that would grow the economy faster. They’re not the policies that would help grow the middle class. In fact, they’d do the opposite.

Obama continued to expound on how horrible the opposition party, who stands in his path of  implementing socialism, err…fairness…is.

Meanwhile…at the Navy Yard…Americans lay dead,dying, and wounded. Their political affiliation did not matter, nor did their race, or their sexual preference. They were Americans, shot by a lunatic, who at the time, was thought to have two accomplices.

However, Obama was on a mission yesterday. He had his wonderful (just ask him) speech prepared, and by God, he was going to give it, come Hell…or dead Americans. 

In fact, if Valerie Jarrett, or one of his other aides, had not told him and Moochelle how horrible an optic it would have been last night, Obama would have been shaking his groove thing, at the Latino Par-tay that was scheduled for Monday Night at the White House. Word did not come out until yesterday afternoon, that the event had been cancelled .

There has never been such a self-involved president in United States History.

As evidenced by the Syria Fiasco, our opinion does not matter to him.

And, as he showed yesterday morning, American lives are not that high a priority to this United States President, either.

Because, after all, it is all about Obama, isn’t it?

Until He comes,

KJ