Bob Kerrey: The health-care bill was one of the reasons Loughner was angry

UC Berkeley chancellor ties AZ immigration law to Giffords shooting (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller UC Berkeley chancellor ties AZ Immigration law to Giffords shooting FNC's Brit Hume rips left-wing 'habit' of equating disagreement with Liberalism with hate Experts say Metro escalator woes product of union inefficiency Will Gates address Chinese rare earth strong arming? Tea Party Express raising money in aftermath of Arizona shooting In an official e-mail to the University of California at Berkeley campus community, chancellor Robert Birgeneau said th...

University of California, Berkeley Chancellor comments on Arizona shootings
  Dear members of our campus community: This weekend's shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the deaths and injuries of many others in the horrific event in Tucson, Arizona have shocked our nation. We here at UC Berkeley offer our sincere condolences to everyone who has been personally affected by this tragedy. Such a brutal and violent attack on an individual who has devoted herself to public service is deeply regrettable. It calls upon us as an academic community to stop...

Tim Wise
I never heard of this guy until 20 minutes ago. I know his type. Behavioral Health Clinics are full of them. Tim Wise Here are excerpts from a rant that he posted on the Daily Kos the day after Election Day. It is fascinating. For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink. And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor. Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know t...

No More Mister Nice Blog
ARE YOU KIDDING, KEVIN? RIGHT-WINGERS SLEEP LIKE BABIES Kevin Drum: I don't really blame Conservatives for being upset at liberals trying pin the blame for the Giffords shooting on them, but the furious defensiveness of their counterattack says all that needs to be said about how uncomfortable they are with their own recent history. No it doesn't. They're not defensive; they're going on defense. Or, if you prefer, on offense. It's not the same thing at all. Their reaction says one thing and one...

BAD ADVICE: Mark Halperin, last seen musing that what Obama needed was a horrendous act of violenc
BAD ADVICE: Mark Halperin, last seen musing that what Obama needed was a “horrendous act of violence” that would save his Presidency, is now advising people on the right that they should turn the other cheek when falsely accused of Murder after the hoped-for “horrendous act of violence” occurred. To avoid “escalation,” don’t y’know. Bah. As the man Halperin is struggling to save says, punch back twice as hard. But you can taste the desperation he...

New Theory for Tucson Tragedy: Blame the Atheists
I hadn't wanted to weigh in on the political debate over accused killer Jared Loughner's motives in Tucson. Mainly, because I don't know what those motives are. For now, only this young man and the demons haunting his brain know for sure what provoked him, as he is charged, to shoot 20 people, killing six. In the length of time that it took to get Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to the Hospital, I had hoped that amid this tragedy, common sense and decency might prevail. Then the tweets started. And once...

Bennet Kelley: Responding to Tucson's Day of Terror
Last March I posted a column "America's Year of Living Dangerously," in reaction to the deterioration of our political debate "from rancorous to poisonous" and the acts of political violence against Democrats such as Gabrielle Giffords following passage of Health Care reform. I was shocked that someone would even target Gabby, since she was such an exceptional and dedicated public servant, and called on John Boehner to not just condemn the acts of violence but the hate the GOP has so assiduous...

Chris Korzen: If the Health Care Repeal Vote Is Symbolic, Why Have Such a Divisive Debate?
At a moment when we need to tone down the discourse in our politics, why have a purely symbolic debate over Health Care Repeal in the U.S. House of Representatives? The debate may take us back to the worst days of the Health Care discussion, when swastikas were commonplace at anti-reform rallies, and some Talk Radio and TV turned into hate radio and TV. Will opponents talk about "Death Panels," or "killing grandma?"  Will people carry signs that say "bury ObamaCare with Kennedy" or wear t-shi...

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey: Arizona Shooter Was Angry About Health Care Reform
Former Senator Bob Kerrey called into Imus in the Morning and said although Congress should postpone business temporarily as a result of the Arizona shooting, to do so for much longer would not be a good idea. Also despite the investigation not yet revealing the killer’s true motives, Kerrey did not hesitate to offer up some speculation. Kerrey suggested: “Tomorrow they were going to vote to Repeal this Health Care bill, and well it’s not going to go anywhere in the Senate, it&...

"Irresponsible words"
Rep. Giffords's brother-in-law, an Astronaut aboard the International Space Station, commented today on the Arizona shootings: "As I look out the window, I see a very beautiful planet that seems very inviting and peaceful," said Cmdr Kelly. "Unfortunately, it is not. "These days, we are constantly reminded of the unspeakable acts of violence and damage we can inflict upon one another, not just with our actions but also with our irresponsible words." "We are better than this. We must do better...

GEORGE WILL: The Charlatans Response To The Tucson Tragedy: Now we have explainers. They came i
George Will: The Charlatans’ Response To The Tucson Tragedy: Now we have explainers. They came into vogue with the Murder of President Kennedy. They explained why the “real” culprit was not a self-described Marxist who had moved to Moscow, then returned to support Castro. No, the culprit was a “climate of hate” in conservative Dallas, the “paranoid style” of American (conservative) politics, or some other national sickness resulting from insufficient l...

George Will smears Howard Dean
George Will has a column today denouncing those who are hoping to use the Arizona shooting to spark some introspection about the tone of our discourse. He calls such people "charlatans" and accuses them of "political opportunism" and "McCarthyism." One of the primary pieces of evidence for the charge is Will's claim that Howard Dean supposedly called Tea Partyers Racist: Three days before Tucson, Howard Dean explained that the Tea Party movement is "the last gasp of the generation that has tro...

Former Dem Sen. Bob Kerrey Says Giffords Shooter Was Angry Because GOP Was Trying to Repeal ObamaCare
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Bob Kerrey: Tucson Shooter Was Angry About Repeal Of ObamaCare
Former Senator Bob Kerrey demonstrates quite aptly why it's a good thing that he's a former Senator: Tomorrow they were going to vote to Repeal this health...

Angry words about angry words -- is the Giffords debate helping?
The debate on overheated political Rhetoric is becoming overheated. The Post's George F. Will and other Conservatives denounce any implication that the right bears any kind of responsibility for the violence in Arizona. Liberals such as Paul Krugman, they argue, simply don't have any evidence connecting Jared Loughner's alleged decision to kill Giffords with anything any conservative politician or commentator has ever said. Therefore, politicizing the shootings is cynical. But now Krugman isn't ...

Huck: Blaming tea party 'reprehensible'
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee lashed out at “left-wing politicians” and the media for their handling of Saturday’s Mass Shooting in Arizona, saying the rush to blame right-wingers for a Shooting Spree committed by a “whack job nut maggot” was “reprehensible.” Speaking on his radio show, “The Huckabee Report,” Monday and Tuesday, Huckabee, a top potential 2012 presidential contender, took up one of the right’s favorite themes in t...

Is Jared Lee Loughner linked to Tea Party, conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting)
Q. Is Jared Lee Loughner linked to the Tea Party, conservative, or Libertarian movements? A. At this time, there's no indication that Loughner was a member of any organized political movement. He was a registered independent who hadn't voted in 2010 (link). The DHS claim that he was linked to the white racial separatist group AmRen is false. Given what we know now, the chances of him being welcomed as a member of any group outside the far fringe is remote [1]. Given his history, the chances th...

Mitt Romneys poll numbers in Iowa low
In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and that killed and injured more than 20 people, many pundits and politicians are pointing fingers. Others are hoping the incident will serve to ratchet down rancor. Yet emerging details make it clear the More… The remaining members of the Iowa Supreme Court have proven they are immoral and “open enemies of God” by choosing Mark Cady as Chief Justice, and thus, all deserve to be ...

Time for the Justifiably Angry Far Left and the Justifiably Angry Far Right to Unite to Protect the US Constitution from Obama
I know this may seem like an odd week for me to float this assertion given the nightmare Murders and Attempted Murder in Arizona. But I am asking for a coalition for communication between the Far Left and the Far Right. An exploration of common, angry ground. I am advocating communication between the the citizens most frustrated and hurting, one highlighted non-stop by the press, the other totally ignored by it. Not to mention the two citizen groups most handily used for "divide up and conquer" ...

The left is not about to waste this 'crisis'
Theme: The left's immediate reaction to the Arizona shooting proves, again, that it will not forgo any chance to exploit a tragedy ("crisis"). Minor theme: In the process, mostly through projection of its own perversions, it is setting records for hypocrisy, irrationality and unfairness. Politico reported that after the shootings, one Veteran Democratic operative said that President Obama should "deftly pin this on the tea partiers. Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma...

The left is not about to waste this 'crisis'
Theme: The left's immediate reaction to the Arizona shooting proves, again, that it will not forgo any chance to exploit a tragedy ("crisis"). Minor theme: In the process, mostly through projection of its own perversions, it is setting records for hypocrisy, irrationality and unfairness. Politico reported that after the shootings, one Veteran Democratic operative said that President Obama should "deftly pin this on the tea partiers. Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma...

Culture and Conditioning
Remarkably, some rightie Bloggers are still trying to peg Jared Loughner as a “Left Wing radical.” This is true even as News Media are doing their best to argue that only those nutty lefties are claiming politics had anything to do with the shooting in Tuscon. Chris Cillizza: In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, liberals sought to paint Loughner as an anti-government, Tea Party conservative. Conservatives retorted that Loughner lacked anything close to a coherent political p...

Internet hate: The backdrop to the Tucson tragedy
The tragedy in Tucson has put a focus on the overheated partisan debate and commentary that plagues America.  The assumption is that such a polarized political and media environment may have contributed to the shootings and deaths. It is too early to tell whether Jared Loughner’s inner demons were the sole reason he chose to shoot and kill or whether the political climate  played any role.  That is something we may never truly know. But we do know that words have consequences, that th

Anti-Douchebag Hate Speech Mars Community Board Meeting
In this file photo, two downtrodden douchebags demand acceptance from society. Don't think for a second that just because disadvantaged douchebags have won the right to ride at the front of the stretch Hummer limo and drink bottle service at the same banquette as everybody else that they no longer face hateful Discrimination each and every day. Even in 2011—when the D-word itself is widely considered Taboo—D-bags everywhere must still overcome the soft Bigotry of low (like, really ...

Elizabeth Lee Granted Six Month Reprieve
An undocumented Student who was slated for Deportation back to Peru this month was granted a six-month reprieve on Thursday, according to the San Francisco Appeal. Elizabeth Lee, 18, was detained with her 16-year-old brother and mother by U.S. Immigration and Customs officials following her mother's arrest in June. Lee has been accepted to UC Berkeley. ABC Local News reports that the Lee family fled Discrimination in Peru and came to live in California in 2000. Lee only learned of her illegal...