Lotsa 'pologizing goin' on

  Not unexpectedly, Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, having gotten his digs in, is walking back his comments that Hitler and Stalin didn't like unions either, just like Republicans in Ohio and Wisconsin who are working against the interests of unions, who contribute greatly to the Democrat party.
  From the Columbus Dispatch:

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has apologized for a speech in which he invoked the names of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin while he criticized Republican efforts in Ohio and Wisconsin to curtail the power of public-employee unions to bargain with state and local governments.

  What's interesting about this debate is the complete and utter hypocrisy of those Democrats who initially claimed that the Giffords shooting was a result of inflammatory rhetoric from the right wing.
  Back a few months ago, it was a different story. From Weasel Zippers, a Brown quote pulled from Real Clear Politics decries the effects of "hate speech":

(RCP)- “What runs through your mind, I think about the meetings I’ve had, where I’ve had where I’ve had staff nearby and there is people that in the audience that are really, really angry. Often is was about health care, often is immigration. There is a lot of hate speech. They see a lot of it on the radio, on the TV, hear it on the radio,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said on “Morning Joe” discussing possible causation of the Arizona shooting.

  Hot Air wrote about the initial Brown reaction to the Giffords shooting, naming Brown as one of the top ten most unhinged reactions to the incident. From Cassy Fiano at Hot Air:

Democrats forced Obamacare down the throats of Americans who overwhelmingly rejected it. They then faced a reckoning in November, when the GOP made amazing gains in Congress and ultimately took back the House. John Boehner, now the Speaker of the House, is already leading Republicans towards repealing the disastrously unpopular bill, and Democrats are not happy about it. They don’t like that the public is still unhappy about Obamacare, they don’t like that they were so resoundingly defeated in November, and they don’t like that Republicans could possibly crumble the foundation they laid to build their socialist dream. And since so many Americans were really angry about the health care bill, then hey, maybe all that “violent rhetoric” could have made Jared Lee Loughner, an apolitical psycho, kill six people! And while we’re at it, if we blame anger over the health care bill, maybe we can get more people to support it too! No one wants to be aligned with an Obamacare-hating mass murderer, right? And what do you call it when you are a Democrat and someone disagrees with you on political policy? Why, hate speech, of course!

  The left was free wheeling in accusing their opponents of destructive hate speech when they had everything to gain from it. Now that they're getting caught in their own blades, they have to casually apologize days later for "inappropriate" remarks, though the MSM doesn't call them out on it.
  Take a look at this Google search with the terms "Democrat apologizes." Notice the speech: Die quickly. You're effing dead. The Vietnamese are trying to take away my seat. Democrat apologizes for roughing up student reporters.
  We could go on but you remember too well the offensive behavior of the last two years.
  Funny. When a right wing politician is forced to apologize, he usually resigns. The press hounds him mercilessly, day after day after day until they get what they want and have done the most damage.
  The right wing should consistently call the left on their language, particularly now that ammunition has been found at the Wisconsin capitol. 
  What the right should not do is stoop to their level and get involved in name calling and "he hit me" type responses. It's immature. We didn't like it when the left did it and we shouldn't participate in it ourselves.
  What the right can do is use their own words against them. Record their words. Quote them. Don't respond by whining about the very personal attacks. Their words speak for themselves. They're hateful.
  The truth is that the whole hate speech is a canard, something to distract from the real arguments. The Supreme Court has upheld the right to speak freely. The whole "hate" issue is determined by what the politician supports or doesn't support.
  Hate speech is what the Westboro Baptist does.
  Hate speech is not Rush Limbaugh. What Rush Limbaugh does is political disagreement.
  We wouldn't even be talking about Hitler and Stalin references if the left hadn't brought it up initially, because most mature adults know that hot headed political remarks have been thrown around since the first election. 
  The truth is that when people choose to be offended, they gain power over the speaker. The power struggle of political correctness continues, and people are tiring of it.  
  Yet the accusations from the left aren't really about hate speech. We know that. It's all about power and gaining political advantage and choosing to be offended, which is why Democrats can say anything they want about conservatives and get away with but the opposite doesn't work. 
  Shame doesn't seem to be working on these left wing hatemongers. Political expediency, yes. Shame, no.
  Hey, throw in a trip to help the indigent in Haiti, and you don't have to feel guilty about anything. 
  It's all good.