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Florida lawmakers size up Arizona-style bill
Tallahassee -- Gov. Rick Scott's campaign pledge to bring an Arizona-style Immigration law to Florida faces an uncertain future in the Legislature, with the bill's chief Senate sponsor expressing doubts about the Controversial measure. ``There probably will not be an Arizona-immigration style bill that passes the Florida Senate,'' said Sen. Mike Bennett, a Bradenton Republican. Bennett said he's deeply concerned with the part of the bill that's most identified with Arizona's law: the requirem...

Chief sponsor of state Senate Arizona-style immigration bill says measure isn't likely to pass Legislature
Tallahassee -- Gov. Rick Scott's campaign pledge to bring an Arizona-style Immigration law to Florida faces an uncertain future in the Legislature, with the bill's chief Senate sponsor expressing doubts about the Controversial measure. ``There probably will not be an Arizona-immigration style bill that passes the Florida Senate,'' said Sen. Mike Bennett, a Bradenton Republican. Bennett said he's deeply concerned with the part of the bill that's most identified with Arizona's law: The requirem...

Scott slips in a secret: he may have a deal
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott joined the Senate Republican Caucus for appetizers Tuesday night a block from the Capitol, hinting that he would soon announce that he’d landed his first Big Business deal, with an out-of-state company poised to begin operations in Florida. Scott and Senate President Mike Haridopolos , R-Merritt Island, refused to shed light on the project, with aides hinting it likely involves financial incentives steered through the state’s secretive Quick Action...

Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Tonight's Rescue Rangers are ItsJessMe, rexymeteorite, Purple Priestess, ybruti, and vcmvo2 as reader and editor. The Rescued diaries are: arlenegoldbard muses about love, violence, anger, sinat chinam, and the Tucson tragedy in Baseless Hatred, Baseless Love. (rexymeteorite) Arizona IS The Republicans Fault, But It Is Complex, writes Something the Dog Said and then proceeds to explain that complexity very well. (Purple Priestess) DrSteveB reports an insider's view that Phony "Job Killing" talk...

Palin comes out swinging, and misses
Sarah Palin wasn't responsible for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) last weekend — not directly, not indirectly. She's not even responsible for the ugly Rhetoric used by others on the right who try to turn ordinary policy debates into clashes between Americanism and socialism. She hasn't tried very hard to curb the excesses of her allies, and that's a serious failing, but it's far from unique. Still, the Arizona shootings and their aftermath will probably be remembered as ...

Now vs. Then: Former Democrat Congressman Paul Kanjorski Edition
Tags: Democrat hypocrisy, Democrats Now vs. Then comparisons, Paul Kanjorski threaten Firing Squad Rick Scott “As far as we know, her attacker had no grand political point; I doubt we will ever really understand his motives.  What the shooting does tell us, however, is that it is impossible to eliminate the risks faces by elected officials when they interact with their constituents…Therefore it is Incumbent on all Americans to create an atmosphere of civility and respect in wh...

Every Wild Weekend
Apparently Sarah Palin is receiving lots of death threats. An aide close to Sarah Palin says death threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor's team has been talking to security professionals. Now, let’s see tomorrow how the media and the left react to this story. There’ll be three responses, I assume. One: “Hey, maybe we should tone down the Rhetoric on Palin before she gets shot.̶...

L.A. Times: Health Care Repeal Too Divisive What with Our New Need for Civil Rhetoric
The deck headline: “House Republican leaders are eager to fulfill their promise to vote to Repeal the Legislation, but taking up the divisive issue could hurt the party at a time of calls for rejecting partisan Rhetoric.” As lawmakers promise a new era of comity after the Arizona shooting attack that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in critical condition, Republican leaders grappled with how and when to return to an issue that brought political discourse to a boili...

Obama leads memorial for Tucson shooting (AFP)
Tucson, Arizona (AFP) – President Barack Obama led a national outpouring of grief while calling for unity at an emotional memorial after a shooting that unleashed fierce debate about inflammatory political Rhetoric. In a Speech repeatedly interrupted by applause for those who tackled the gunman -- and the announcement that a US lawmaker who was shot in the head had opened her eyes -- Obama said the attack must not lead to new divisions. "At a time when our discourse has become so sh...

Palin: Attacks over shooting are 'blood libel'
Sarah Palin today accused her opponents of Manufacturing a "blood Libel" by suggesting her Rhetoric and campaign tactics had anything to do with the Arizona shootings. Four days after an incident which left six people dead and critically injured the congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Palin released a video statement condemning the attack. She denied that a now infamous campaign map showing Giffords's electoral district in the cross hairs of a gun had influenced the shooter Jared Lee Loughner. In ...

Sarah Palin Sees Spike in Death Threats
The end result of the movement for “Everybody to watch your tone because Sarah Palin put a bullseye and look what happened?”: An aide close to Sarah Palin says Death Threats and security threats have increased to an unprecedented level since the shooting in Arizona, and the former Alaska Governor’s team has been talking to security professionals. The irony is rich given the theme of the week from those attacking Palin has been that you need to be careful of your Rhetoric. App...

Man arrested over threats to kill McDermott
A Palm Springs, Calif., man was arrested Wednesday on a charge that he threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott and his family in expletive-laden phone messages in December. Charles Turner Habermann, 32, is charged with one count of threatening a federal official for two voice messages authorities say he left at McDermott's office the night of Dec. 9. Habermann's arrest comes amid a national furor over violent political Rhetoric following last week's shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,...

Obama calls for an end to 'sharply polarised' US
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the memorial event, 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America', at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, Arizona, on 12 January 2011. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama has appealed for an end to the "sharply polarised" debate that has consumed American politics in recent years and provided the backdrop to the aftermath of the bloody Assassination attempt against a congresswoman in Tucson. Speaking at a memorial event i...

What We Need to Learn From Arizona
Maybe in the wake of the tragedy in Arizona we'll wake up to the terrible polarization and heated Rhetoric in our society, says Meghan McCain—who says political moderates need to find the lost middle ground....

Midterm election most negative ever, study says (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Midterm Election most negative ever, study says Call to reinstate fairness doctrine after Arizona shooting not likely to result in action Daily Beast, Newsweek piece contradicted by story's source, DHS statements Democrats slam Boehner for missing Arizona memorial service FNC's Hume praises 'pep rally' atmosphere of Obama Arizona Speech, but adds parts 'most peculiar' Adding to the discussion of violent Rhetoric among politicians and the media this week,...

How to Save Social Security
In the video below Dan Mitchell gives a brief history of Social Security and how we can save it. When the entitlement program began, it was a great deal for workers. Today it’s a bad deal, especially for younger workers. The left howls every time somebody brings up private accounts, which means they’re probably a good idea. Mitchell does a good job explaining why private accounts are such a good idea. Take seven minutes to open your mind and listen to what he has to say. Ponzi sche...

Wendell Potter: Deadly spin on health care repeal
Advocates of Health Care reform who are fearful — or hopeful, as the case may be — that Republicans will be able to Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka "ObamaCare") need to understand that the GOP has no real intention of repealing it. The Rhetoric of Repeal is just a smoke screen to obscure the real objective of the “repeal and replace” Caucus: to preserve the sections of the law that big Insurance and its business allies like and strip out the regulatio...

Rhetoric as comfort food: The mac-and-cheese instinct
If only we could go back to Monday. Discussions about Saturday's shootings in Tucson, which killed six and wounded 13, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were so much simpler then: inflamed, righteous and deliciously partisan in a comfort-food kind of way. The fallout from the tragedy took a neat and predictable course: the left blaming the right for its association with incendiary Rhetoric, and the right mounting a tough defense against such accusations, arguing that liberal elites f...

Will Obama call for political civility in Tucson speech?
President Obama, who has for years bemoaned Incivility in politics, must decide Wednesday whether his Speech in Tucson is the right time to repeat that message. This Story Giffords condition unchanged; shooting suspect Loughner held without bail The faces of Jared Loughner Bullet's path may determine Giffords's injuries West Wing Briefing: Will Obama call for political civility in Tucson speech? A look at the left hemisphere Petula Dvorak: For parents, shots in Tucson have a nightmarish echo ...

Liberals now seekban on metaphors
After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we've got to pass Obama's agenda immediately and stop using metaphors. At least I think that's what the Mainstream Media are trying to tell me. Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all Conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in Murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner. Of course, to make their cas...

Stephen Stromberg: Palin proves -- again -- that she's a terrible politician
Sarah Palin didn't retreat. She reloaded. And she proved, again, that she is a ruinously incompetent politician. Over the weekend, liberal pundits overeagerly speculated that she may have inspired the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). After learning more about alleged shooter Jared Loughner, many of those same commentators restrained their criticism of the former Alaska Governor, and polls showed that Americans are skeptical of any connection. People recognized Palin had been unf...

Leftist Lies and the Arizona Shooting
Posted by Ann Coulter on Jan 13th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we’ve got to pass Obama’s agenda immediately and stop using metaphors. At least I think that’s what the Mainstream Media are trying to tell me. Liberals instantly leapt on the s...

Sen. Anitere Flores in Joe Gruters corner.
Miami Sen. Anitere Flores is backing Sarasota Republican Chairman Joe Gruters in the crowded (and nasty) race for Republican Party of Florida chair. A number of other current and former senators are also in Gruters corner, such as Senate Pro Tem Mike Bennett and Sen. Steven Wise (full list and press statement is below**)  Flores' Endorsement isn't too much of a surprise. Gruters is drawing support from young, up-and-coming Republicans and Flores fits the description to a T as she...

Rep. Garcia wears passport to protest immigration bill
As Conservatives push forward with a plan to bring an Arizona-style Immigration law to Florida, Miami Rep. Luis Garcia has donned a form of Protest in the State Capitol: His passport. Garcia said the proposal, which would require police in some circumstance to check a suspect's Immigration status, is tentamount to ethnic or Racial Profiling that eventually will make Hispanics, Haitians and other immigrants feel unwelcome and subject to search. So he's walking around with his papers on ...

Capitol Digest: Students among immigration bill foes; Senate rule changes today?
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