By: Jeffrey Klein
Political Buzz Examiner

Like clockwork, uber liberals were out in force, where immediately after the tragic theatre shooting in Aurora, Colorado early this morning, one lamely tried to connect the shooter to the “Tea Party,” while another resurrected their predictable, yet useless demand for ‘more gun control.’

First out of the gate was George Stephanopoulos, anchor of ABC News Good Morning America show, who trotted out his ace investigative reporter [correspondent] Brian Ross, then interviewed him about a ‘golden news nugget’ he had found shortly after the name of the suspect, 24-year-old James Holmes, first emerged Friday morning, according to a FOXNews article today.

Ross said that he’d found a web page for a “Jim Holmes” on a Colorado Tea Party site.

There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes, but it’s Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.

Then, as if a Google search could ever be inconclusive–it turns out that the “Jim Holmes-Tea Party member” that Ross found and linked as a possible suspect in the shooting over national television, was not the 24-year old “James Holmes,” who was in custody for the shootings.

Before lunch, ABC News [embarrassingly] issued this statement of apology:

An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.

On air later in the morning, Ross must also have been compelled to ‘publicly’ make amends:

An earlier report that I had was incorrect that he was connected with the Tea Party. In fact, that’s a different Jim Holmes. He was not connected to the Tea Party and what we do know about him is he is a 24-year-old white male who went to Colorado for a Ph.D.

Wonder if their producer will be fired over this little “mistake.”

Then, the ‘big gun’ from New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, couldn’t stand the temptation any longer and hit the airwaves, as reported in Stephanie Condon’s CBS News article this morning.

In the interview Mayor Bloomberg chided President Obama and Mitt Romney, pressing them to offer up more than “soothing words” and talk about how they will address gun-related violence.

Maybe it’s time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they are going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country.

Note to Bloomberg: Barack Obama has been president for the last four years.

I mean, there are so many murders with guns every day; it’s just got to stop. And instead of the two people–President Obama and Governor Romney–talking in broad things [sic] about [how] they want to make the world a better place, okay, tell us how. And this is a real problem.

No matter where you stand on the Second Amendment, no matter where you stand on guns, we have a right to hear from both of them–concretely, not just in generalities–specifically what are they going to do about guns?

The New York mayor is an outspoken advocate for gun control, who co-chairs “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” and is involved with “Second Chance on Shoot First” campaign. He has taken his message to the public in the past after other tragic and high-profile shootings.

These maneuvers by ABC News Stephanopoulos and New York Mayor Bloomberg are right out of the now famous “Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste” chapter of the ‘Democrat Political Strategy Guidebook-2009,’ by Rahm Emmanuel–former Obama Chief of Staff and now Mayor of Chicago.

And, they are shamelessly intended to capitalize on the Colorado shooting tragedy in order to provide President Barack Obama with ‘gun control’ as a fresh new national ‘distraction,’ to use on the campaign trail–to keep public attention away from the miserable ‘flatline’ economy, 23 million unemployed and $16+ trillion national debt from his first term as president.

However, this feckless gambit will fail like all the other slight-of-hand stunts they have tried, because ‘gun control’ is not even on the ‘Top 10 List of Voter Election Issues’ in November.

It’s still the economy, stupid…