Democrats Foiled Again?

Those who justify anti-government violence
THOSE WHO JUSTIFY ANTI-GOVERNMENT VIOLENCE.... CBS News conducted a poll this week -- after the massacre in Tucson -- and included a provocative question: "Do you think it is ever justified for citizens to take violent action against the government, or is it never justified?" Given that the American mainstream strongly rejects these kinds of attitudes, I expected the results to be entirely one sided. For the most part, they were -- overall, 76% of Americans said such violence is never justifie...

Poll: 45% Say Politics Motivated Jared Loughner
Source: CBS https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20028218-503544.... Updated 6:50 p.m. Eastern Time Forty-five percent of Americans believe that Jared Loughner's political views were "probably" a factor in the shootings in Tucson Saturday, a new CBS News poll shows. One in three say they probably were not a factor, while 22 percent say they do not know. Loughner has not cooperated with investigators in the wake of the shooting, and evidence suggests he held muddled political views far outsid...

Heavy Metal and the Tucson Shootings
Drowning Pool, the metal band whose song “Bodies” made an appearance on alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner’s MySpace page, has responded to the very stupid suggestion that their dumb song had anything to do with last Saturday’s horrific Crimes. As The Daily Caller reports: A recent Washington Post article chronicles instances in which music has apparently influenced killers, most notably Charles Manson, whose fascination with The Beatles song “Helter Skelter” guided s

Jared Loughner: Was It the Family's Fault?
​Details on Jared Lee Loughner and what occurred (and what may have occurred) prior to his shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen others, killing six, in a Tucson Safeway Supermarket last Saturday continue to unfold. The questions everyone wants answers to, of course: Could we have stopped him? Should we have known? And...why didn't someone know? Particularly, say, his parents? Inevitably, in situations like these, people seek someone or thing to blame...

Sharron Angle: I condemn all acts of violence (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Heavy metal band responds to allegations that their music had any influence on AZ shooter Chris Christie to Rudy Giuliani: Butt out Police visited Loughner's home before shooting Face of evil: Mug Shots of famous assassins [SLIDESHOW] Poll of Conservatives shows support for broad cuts to spending, including Military Spending Former Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle condemned Tucson shooter Jared Loughner and expressed concern about the politicize...

NYT Hopes Shootings Upend GOP Agenda
From a not very subtle New York Times: For Boehner, Rampage Imposes Its Own Agenda By CARL HULSE January 11, 2011 WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner expected to spend his first celebratory weeks as the new leader of the House showcasing his party’s differences with the Democrats. But the shooting rampage in Arizona upended those plans. Now Mr. Boehner is being called on to play a far less partisan role, leading Republicans and Democrats alike through a difficult period. How he perfor...

Monkey Wrench: Friend of Giffords Shooter Jared Loughner Says He Did Not Watch TV Disliked the News
whthfk on Police Visited Home of AZ Shooter on More Than One Occasion. Clarification on GOP Rep. Allen West: I Have No Plans to Tone Down My “Strong Language” in Wake of Giffords Shooting… Rep. James Clyburn, Sheriff “Vitriol” Dupnik and Paul Krugman simultaneously hardest hit. (TV Newser)- This morning on “Good Morning America,” ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield sat down with Zach Osler, a High School friend of Jared Loughner, the s...

Loughner Stopped by Police Hours before Shooting
With all the evidence against the suspected Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, a Guilty verdict could still prove very difficult. Jan Crawford reports on the latest details of the case. Though Jared Lee Loughner's parents were "completely surprised" by the news of the Tucson shooting, former friends and classmates of Loughner's were not. Ben Tracy reports on the troubled past of Jared Lee Loughner. Doctors at Tucson's University Medical Center are increasingly optimistic about Ariz. Democratic Rep. ...

AZ Suspect Didn't Watch TV, Disliked the News
This morning on “Good Morning America,” ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield sat down with Zach Osler, a High School friend of Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson massacre. Osler says his friend wasn’t shooting at people, “he was shooting at the world.” Regarding the high-pitched Talk Radio and Cable News political Rhetoric, Osler says his friend didn’t even watch the news....

GOP Leaders: We oppose Rep. King's new gun control idea
The Republicans may just have to agree to disagree. House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) are against a new gun-control proposal put forth by a fellow GOPer in response to the Tucson shootings. Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said Tuesday that he'd introduce a new bill that bars anyone from carrying a gun within 1,000 feet of a federal official. He believes the Legislation could have prevented the Jan. 8 Arizona shooting...

Video; Jared Loughner's Best Friend: "He Did Not Watch TV, He Disliked the News, He Didnt Listen to Political Radio, He Didnt T
This morning on “Good Morning America,” ABC’s Ashleigh Banfield sat down with Zach Osler, a High School friend of Jared Loughner, the suspect in the Tucson massacre. Maybe Chris Matthews, the hacks at MSNBC and Sheriff Dupnik can take a listen..(At 2:25 of this video) ...

Westboro: We Won't Picket 9-Year-Old's Funeral
Like this Story? Share it: Erica Hill talks to John and Roxanna Green, parents of Christina Green, the 9-year-old Victim of the Tucson shooting rampage. During a Press Conference for the injured victims of the Tucson, Ariz. shooting, Bill Hileman became overcome with emotion when describing his wife who was holding the hand of 9-year-old Victim Christina Taylor Green. Funerals and memorials have begun for victims of the Tucson shooting that killed six people. Ben Tracy reports. Westboro Baptist ...

Re: Defending the Tea Party
Katrina’s piece on the homepage looks at how Tea Party–backed lawmakers have responded to the whirlwind Rhetoric surrounding the Tucson tragedy. I caught up with Mark Meckler, co-founder and national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, late last night. He confessed to having been bogged down in a “media frenzy” over of the past few days, and said he wasn’t exactly pleased with what he’d been hearing. “What we saw is an example of the depravity of people ...

Sarah Palin Invokes Anti-Semitic Term Blood Libel in Reaction to Arizona Shootings
There has been extensive discussion about whether intensified hateful Rhetoric used in partisan debate may have incited accused Arizona shooter Jared Loughner to try to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at her Congress on the Corner event Saturday, wounding 13 others and killing six.  Loughner himself has not yet explicitly expressed a motive, though Law Enforcement has uncovered evidence indicating an extreme political dislike for Giffords. Journalists such as Keith Olbermann and others ...

A Different White House Emerges After Tucson Tragedy
President Barack Obama pauses during a statement on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., at the White House on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, in Washington. (Credit: AP) It wasn't long ago that quick response to crisis or tragedy wasn't President Obama's strong suit. He was lambasted by liberals for responding too slowly to the gulf Oil Spill last summer, and by Republicans for his slow and initially low-key response to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day 2009. But th...

Americans Split on Stricter Gun Control Laws, Continuing a Longtime Trend
Most Americans don't believe that stricter Gun Control laws would have prevented the shootings in Arizona on Saturday and the public is split on the question of toughening the laws regulating who can own Firearms, according to a CBS News poll conducted Dec. 17-20. (Story; Poll Data) The lack of a public mandate for stricter laws reflects the same finding of a Gallup analysis released Tuesday, which shows that support for stricter Gun Laws has declined over the last two decades even though that p...

Police visited Loughners home before shooting (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Heavy metal band responds to allegations that their music had any influence on AZ shooter Chris Christie to Rudy Giuliani: Butt out Police visited Loughner's home before shooting Face of evil: Mug Shots of famous assassins [SLIDESHOW] Poll of Conservatives shows support for broad cuts to spending, including Military Spending Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused in the shooting Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, was visited by Tucson police ...

Sarah Palin as provocateur
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 's statement designed to tamp down one Controversy may well have started another. In a statement -- and video (see above) -- released via Facebook this morning, Palin expresses sorrow for the Victims of the Tucson shootings and defends herself against those in the media (and on the liberal left) who have sought to somehow implicate her in the tragedy. "Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood Libel that ...

Most Americans Reject Tie Between Political Rhetoric, Arizona Shootings
While the Arizona shootings have triggered a national debate about whether the vitriol in political Rhetoric has gone over the top, 57 percent of Americans do not believe the heated partisan tone of public debate had anything to do with the gun rampage in Tucson, according to a CBS News poll released Tuesday. The connection between the state of political discourse and the shootings that critically wounded Arizon Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, killed six and injured 13 others had perhaps been put most ...

Pol suggest Democrat spin on Tuscon shooting not working
Image by Getty Images via @daylife CBS News: Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country's heated political Rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS News poll. In the wake of the shooting, much focus has been put on the harsh tone of politics in Washington and around the country, particularly after a contentious Midterm Election. Rhetoric and imagery from both Republicans and Democrats hav...

Poll Finds Growing Support for Stronger Gun Control
In the wake of the shootings in Tucson on Saturday, the number of Americans who say Gun Control laws should be made stricter has increased since last spring, but nearly 6 in 10 Americans think stricter laws would have had little effect on preventing the violence which claimed the lives of six people and injured fourteen others, according to a CBS News poll. Just 32 percent of Americans think the harsh tone of recent political campaigns had something to do with the violence in Arizona, while 57...

Most Americans do not blame political rhetoric for AZ shootings, survey says
Stumble This! WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans reject the view that heated political Rhetoric was a factor in the weekend shootings in Arizona which killed six and critically wounded a congresswoman, a CBS News poll said on Tuesday. Since the Saturday incident in which Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot at point-blank range, various politicians and commentators have said a climate in which strong language and ideological polarization is common may have contributed to the att...

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The Hill: Poll: Rhetoric, Arizona shooting unrelated By Jordan Fabian - 01/11/11 08:13 AM ET Almost 60 percent of the public believes that heated political rhetoric has nothing to do with an Arizona Shooting Spree that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and killed a Federal Judge. Fifty-seven percent of respondents in a new CBS News poll said rhetoric is unrelated to the shooting, while 32 percent said they believe the two are connected. Many pundits and lawmakers have keyed in on ...

U.S. majority doesn't blame rhetoric for Giffords shooting
WASHINGTON | Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:18am EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans reject the view that heated political Rhetoric was a factor in the weekend shootings in Arizona which killed six and critically wounded a congresswoman, a CBS News said on Tuesday. Since the Saturday incident in which Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot at point-blank range, various politicians and commentators have said a climate in which strong language and ideological polarization is com...

Poll: Most Say Rhetoric, Killings Unrelated
From a deeply saddened CBS News: Poll: Most Americans Feel Rhetoric, Tucson Shooting Unrelated Posted by Daniel Carty January 11, 2011 Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country’s heated political rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS News poll. So either our media master has better ratchet up their efforts or move on to their fall back position - Gun Control. In the wake ...