Updated 6-6-18:
Added: Scalise Returns to Baseball Field One Year After Shooting That Nearly Took His Life ~
This year’s charity Congressional Baseball Game, pitting Republicans against Democrats, takes place next Thursday, June 14 — exactly one year after the assassination attempt. We don’t know who will win the game, but we do know Steve Scalise has already been victorious.
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Next week will mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting spree by Bernie Sanders’ supporter James T. Hodgkinson, which left five Republicans injured; Rep. Steve Scalise critically. The victims were deliberately targeted for their politics while at an early morning congressional softball practice.
Immediately after the shooting Scalise’s initial status was grave ~
(He) was in critical condition and at imminent risk of death after the shooting. The bullet that struck him entered his left hip and caused injuries to numerous internal organs. He was released from the hospital in late July after several surgeries and then went through intensive inpatient rehabilitation.
Scalise was finally able to return to work more than three months after the attack, but has yet to fully recover from his injuries.
As I discussed last summer, had the political parties been reversed, we never would have heard the end of this assault. By now the mainstreams would have been screeching for Trump’s impeachment for instigating violence.
Instead, not only did the Left refuse to acknowledge the motivation behind the shooting, we have a rabid progressive PAC appropriately named “Mad Dog” which is urging donors to “‘Take Out’ Republican Who Survived Shooting” ~
A liberal group is raising money to put up a billboard to “take out” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), who survived being shot while practicing at a baseball field in Alexandria last June.
The homepage of Mad Dog PAC’s website has a photo of the proposed billboard with a link asking site-goers for donations. The liberal group is the same organization behind a billboard with the message “IMPEACHMENT NOW” along the motorcade route to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
A visit to Mad Dog’s website reveals an amended version of the Scalise billboard; “VOTE HIM OUT.” They must have realized it was over the top – even for Leftists. But their attitude is still pretty militant, as The Federalist reports ~
Mad Dog PAC chairman Claude Taylor told The Ledger that his group was planning to “toss mortars” at the other side.
“People know that President Trump is a crook, and we’re going to do something about it,” Taylor said. “We are tossing mortars at the other side. We’re not offering policy prescriptions. We’re attack dogs; that’s what we’re here for.”
Incendiary language? Provocative? Nah, not if you’re a Lefist.
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