Now Listen to Me

It's up everywhere, but I think I will add myself to the parade:

Many people will use this terrible tragedy as an excuse to put through a political agenda other than my own. This tawdry abuse of human suffering for political gain sickens me to the core of my being. Those people who have different political views from me ought to be ashamed of themselves for thinking of cheap partisan point-scoring at a time like this. In any case, what this tragedy really shows us is that, so far from putting into practice political views other than my own, it is precisely my political agenda which ought to be advanced.

I got it from Making Light here (and that's what VT teaches us about my political agenda, he he).

Fn.: Comment thread at Making Light is good; a nice conspectus of all the all the "lessons to be learned" (hint: co-ed dorms!).