You realize C, how this is really a strategy being employed by the left and helped along with the MSM. You couldn't turn a corner, during the last administration and not hear Bush referred to as Nazi & war criminal, not see a drawing of him with a hitler-stache, not hear him referred to as a monkey, or worse. Where were the calls for civility then?? Naaaa, folks exercising the 1st amendment rights to dissent. But boy oh boy, you have 1 Dem congress critter, say he heard the N-word, and whalaa, the T-party is racist. 1 poster that has Obama looking like Hitler or Stalin, and good god, the MSM throws a hissy fit. 1 22yr/old psychopath shoots a Dem congress critter he's been obsessed with for years, and whalaa, its talk radio and Palin to blame
But the left is losing....in the area of debate. They're losing their grip on policy, as more and more polling indicates, NO to new taxes, NO to more government spending, YES to cuts in government spending. So, this NEW effort to facilitate "civil debate" is a slight of hand effort to make this about how conservative debate is what's vile, that conservative ideas are abhorrent.
At least that's my take
BTW, did you hear who's going to take over for Keith Olberdork?