Before the dust had settled in the Tucson, Arizona parking lot, the professional leftists were hard at work trying to pin responsibility for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on everyone from the Tea Party to Sarah Palan to defenders of the Second Amendment to anyone who even vaguely supported conservative principles. Giffords was severely wounded by a pistol shot through the brain. U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and five others, including a 9 year old girl, Christina Taylor Green, were senselessly murdered and 12 others were injured in the mayhem, allegedly by 22 year old Jared Loughner. Americans' prayers should go out to the families of the dead and for the prompt recovery of the wounded, including Rep. Giffords who initially was believed to have died in the shootings and now seems to have a fighting chance to survive.Leftists aren't much into prayer or anything else positive and, as in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which they ignorantly blamed on Rush Limbaugh, all but literally fell all over themselves to get, not to their knees but to their keyboards to launch anticipated but nevertheless despicable attacks. An Arizona blogger on DailyKos.com had perhaps presciently commented on that notoriously liberal website two days earlier that his congresswoman, Giffords, was "dead to me." Her crime? He had worked tirelessly for his "Gabby" in the past but she died to him because he discovered she must be a conservative Democrat since she had voted against Nancy Pelosi for House Minority Leader. DailyKos quickly took down "BoyBlue's" death notice following the shootings. Leftists may not be into prayer but they're expert at blind recrimination. Highly acclaimed economist, Paul Krugman, long deceived, like Al Gore, into believing that if he gets a Nobel Prize he's not still a nitwit, is the left wing's star when it comes to cockeyed societal observations. He lived up to that rep even as the Tucson scene was still being cleaned up because, of course, he had it all figured out. The ultra-partisan Krugman blamed it all, not on the disturbed mind of Jared Loughner but on what every liberal knows, Republican "hate-mongering." The jury is still out on Loughner as reports flow in that he burned the American flag, that he's in fact a twisted left, not right, winger, that he preferred coffee over tea parties. The truth will, hopefully, come out in the wash and in his trial after which he should be executed if found guilty. Krugman's bleeding heart will no doubt bleed profusely over that outcome but, for now, there's hay to be made over alleged Republican hate-mongering and to hell with the dead and wounded. He couldn't very well pass up the opportunity to mix some distorted political views with the blood of the victims, now could he? As one observer noted, "Apparently [Krugman] doesn't need to hear the facts before blasting away at Republicans." There's no "apparently" about it as evidenced by Krugman's comments on the New York Times' website. He lashed out at every conservative he could think of at the moment: "(Her father says that 'the whole Tea Party' was her enemy.) And yes, she was on Sarah Palin's infamous 'crosshairs' list... Actually, it's been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing. You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we're going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it's long past time for the GOP's leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers:" [http://tiny.cc/9iwxg] Take a breath, Paulie, and don't be so scared. How about waiting for some actual truth, some facts, to be determined before shooting your mouth off about the horrendous shooting? Even better, how about breaking the mold and sayong a prayer for the victims first, unless that would undermine your credibility among your fellow leftists. I wonder whether, if it turns out that Loughner is a closet gay Marxist, will Krugman retract?Fat chance!