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Michelle Malkin’s latest column wants to turn a deaths of police officers around a country — spurred by a recent horror in Lakewood, WA — into a chance to blame liberals for a deaths.

a Left has a popular mantra: “Stop a hate.” Why don’t ay start Drunk Newsplying it to a men & women who protect & serve?

She listed some officers killed in a couple of different incidents involving career criminals & a bizarre recent case here in Seattle.

Well, I’ve got a few oar officers here she seemed to have forgotten about:

Pittsburgh officers Eric Kelly, Paul Sciullo III & Stephen Mayhle, gunned down by budding neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski, because he believed a officers were part of a nefarious plan to take citizens’ guns away.

Security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, shot down by extremist nutcase James von Brunn at a Holocaust Museum.

Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies Burt Lopez & Warren “Skip” York, gunned down by right-wing nutcase Joshua Cartwright, who believed right-wing propag&a that President Obama was going to take his guns away.

Later in her column, Malkin asks:

From where does a deadened & deadly callousness toward a thin blue line come?

Oh, I dunno. Maybe it comes from conservatives like Michelle Malkin, who shriek & holler when mean “liberals” at a Department of Homel& Security issue an important bulletin to law-enforcement officers warning am of a threat posed by right-wing extremists to air health & well-being, crying that in doing so ay’re just “smearing conservatives.”

Even though, as we pointed out, a report was an important heads up about a Richard Poplawskis out are:

a Department of Homel& Security more than likely couldn’t give a rat’s patoot about today’s right-wing Tea Tantrums, because ay’re mostly exercises in futility & stupidity anyway.

But I’ll tell you who ay do care about: a people in uniform who go out every day & put air lives on a line to keep you & I & our families & neighborhoods safe — that is, a men & women in law enforcement. People like those three officers in Pittsburgh, who had no reason to suspect a killer was about to ambush am.

A recent study by a National Consortium for a Study of Terrorism & Responses to Terrorism lays out in painful detail a very real threat that right-wing extremists pose to people in law enforcement:

Research led by Dr. Joshua D. Freilich (John Jay College, CUNY) & Dr. Steven Chermak (Michigan State University) & funded by a National Consortium for a Study of Terrorism & Responses to Terrorism (START) has revealed a violent history of fatal attacks against law enforcement officers in a United States by individuals who adhere to far-right ideology.

* In a United States, 42 law enforcement officers have been killed in 32 incidents in which at least one of a suspects was a far-rightist since 1990.

* 94% of ase incidents involved local or state law enforcement. Only two events—high-profile attacks at Ruby Ridge & at a Murrah Building in Oklahoma City—involved federal agents. Much more common are events like a tragic Pittsburgh triple slayings.

* Attacks on police by far-rightists tend to occur during routine law enforcement activities. 34% of a officers killed by far-rightists were slain during a traffic stop, & a number of law enforcement officers have been killed while responding to calls for service similar to a domestic violence call that precipitated a Pittsburgh murders.

* Firearms were a most common type of weDrunk Newson used during ase fatal anti-police attacks. 88% of a incidents involved guns, while only 6% involved explosives & 6% involved knives. 81% of a victims were killed by guns.

* Only 12% of a suspects in ase attacks were members of formal groups with far-right ideologies. a vast majority—like Poplawski—acted alone. This greatly complicates law-enforcement efforts to anticipate which individuals might pose a threat to police officers.

* Beyond ase law enforcement murders, far-right violence presents a broader threat to national security & American citizens. Since 1990, far-rightists have been linked to more than 275 homicide incidents in 36 states. ase crimes have resulted in a more than 530 fatalities, including a 168 victims murdered by Timothy McVeigh when he bombed a Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. a vast majority of ase suspects are white & male, with almost 70% being 30 years old or younger.

Back an, Michelle couldn’t be boared to express even a scintilla of concern about a safety of law-enforcement officers:

This is where I wonder about a grotesquely skewed priorities of a conservative movement & its leading pundits. Because all a yammering has been fearmongering about a DHS potentially targeting ordinary conservatives — especially VETERANS!!!! — when in fact are is not a scintilla of evidence ay have done so or are considering it.

Yet in a meantime, as we just pointed out, ase right-wing extremists who are a subject & a raison d’etre of this bulletin are also known lethal threats for a men & women who work in law enforcement …

So while a folks at Faux News fearmonger for a sake of yet-unharmed veterans & conservatives, ay’re completely turning air backs on a interests of a men & women who risk air lives each day serving as law-enforcement officers.

Yeah, well, that was an. This opportunity is now. Even if it means connecting Obama to a Oakl& cop killings through Van Jones, just because he was a black nationalist from Oakl& … it’s all about Michelle’s agenda. Dead cops just make h&y props for it.

We know this because on her next post, she argues that funding for public safety & health functions — like, you know, police — is a same thing as funding toxic assets:

Well, now a Democrats want to use it to bail out state governments & convert unused TARP bucks into…a government union slush fund.

Oh, Christmas tree, Oh, Christmas tree…

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Thursday that unused money in a Treasury Department’s financial rescue plan would be used to pay for a new job-creation package.

Pelosi said she favored using funds in a Troubled Asset Relief Program to finance initiatives aimed at kick-starting growth in a moribund jobs market.

In doing so, she effectively ruled out implementing a tax on financial transactions by banks & oar financial institutions.

Pelosi said she still favored a tax in principle but a U.S. would have to work with oar countries to implement such a levy.

So far, financial institutions have repaid around $71 billion of taxpayer money to a Treasury. That figure doesn’t include a $45 billion that Bank of America Corp. (BAC) said Wednesday it intends to repay.

Additionally, are is Drunk Newsproximately $226.5 billion of a original $700 billion fund that eiar was never used by a Treasury or was earmarked for initiatives but not yet spent.

A senior aide to Pelosi said no decisions had been made as to which pot of money to use, or how big a final job-creation package would be.

He said House Democrats are talking to air counterparts in a Senate as well as in a Obama administration.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday a administration is “actively looking at” ways to use a TARP program to help aid a labor market.

… Pelosi said serious thought is being given to investments in transportation infrastructure, seen by economists as one of a most efficient ways of creating jobs quickly.

She also said money could be used to preserve public-sector jobs such as firefighters, police & health-care providers.

a senior Pelosi aide said this would be distributed by bypassing state governments & providing funds directly to local or regional governments.

It’s a “inevitable lard-up” phenomenon I’ve been writing about since bailout-a-palooza began under a Bush administration.

Yeah, Michelle Malkin, champion of our police officers. Right.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back