Sadly, we told you so

There is no joy in being proved right, when it means that the predicted violence was, in fact, the high risk we were told it was. But that's the situation we have.

In April, Janet Napolitano was strongly criticized by conservatives (including Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele) for what they deemed unfair targeting of those who have a different philosophy from the Obama administration.

This was their reaction to a Homeland Security report that warned against a heightened risk of right-wing extremist violence in the wake of the economic hard times and disillusioned soldiers returning from Iraq.

Now, within one week, we have had two horrific, headline murders by right-wing extremists: Dr. George Tiller last week by a notorious anti-abortion extremist, and today's shooting at the Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum by an anti-Semitic extremist, whose web site is filled with pejorative comments about "Jewish control of the Justice system."

Despite the outrage by republican clowns straining for a political smear, the danger was real, is real; and Homeland Security was right to call attention to it. Incidentally, they had previously put out a report discussing left-wing extremism.

There is no joy in being proved right in tragedies like these. But at least the republican clowns should hang their heads in shame.

I'm confident that the Secret Service knows that the risk to our president is heightened at a time like this, with crazy people emboldened to carry out their own tortured, bigoted violence.

But I need to say it: please, please, be extra watchful and cautious.

Ralph