Gabrielle Giffords is Model of Deliberative Democracy

Model of Deliberative Democracy: Gabrielle Giffords
During my first few days of the semester this week I was afforded an unusual opportunity to engage in a discussion on "deliberative Democracy," the theme of my textbook, from Joseph Bessette and John Pitney, American Government and Politics: Deliberation, Democracy, and Citizenship. And as announced by the publisher, a key element of the the text is the focus on " thoughtful, selfless consideration of issues and on civic participation as essential components of good citizenship ." And it strikes...

LI Congressman Holds First Event After Tucson Shooting
DEER PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A Long Island representative held the first “Congress on Your Corner” event since the tragic shootings in Tuscon that left an Arizona congresswoman fighting for her life. Before residents even walked into the event at the Deer Park Fire Department, they were greeted by a Police Officer outside the front door. Congressman Steve Israel told WCBS 880’s Sophia Hall that he felt it was very important to have a “Congress in Your Corner...

Ignoring the Inner Self: Roots of Inflammatory Political Hatred and Irrationality
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 10:06am. In the wake of the Tucson massacre, President Obama has called for a new era of political civility. If we really want this reform, we need to understand something about The Roots of inflammatory discourse. Many partisans, particularly on the Right, are not interested in any resolution of political issues. The real purpose for the venom they direct at the Left is to cover up their own unresolved negativity and to discharge that negativity on t...

Ariz. Shooting Victim Makes Threats at Meeting
Like this Story? Share it: Chris Wragge speaks with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller about the gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, and his thoughts on Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's recovery. Eric Fuller, wounded during attack in Tucson on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on "The Early Show" Jan. 11, 2011. (CBS) (CBS) TUCSON, Ariz. - A town hall meeting, taped for ABC's "This Week", got interrupted when an Ariz. Shooting Victim stood up and made threats towards a Tea Party spokesman, reports KGUN. Towards the e...

Gabrielle Giffords should stop supporting the deaths of innocent people
It has been one week since the tragic massacre in Tuscon Arizona, where  six innocent people were killed  countless others injured. Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords miraculously survived and is reportedly improving. Dramatic photographs were released of her astronaught husband holding her hand at her Hospital bedside. They have been posted on Gifford's campaign website . So much political Rhetoric has been ballied about in the wake of the shootings, the end result being death t...

Good News From Tucson: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Breathing Without Ventilator
Tragic as the story of last Saturday’s shootings in Tucson, Arizona undoubtedly is, the continued (and extremely rapid) recovery of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is cause for celebration. The Congresswoman, who has opened her eyes and can follow simple verbal cues, no longer needs a ventilator to breathe. Rep. Giffords, doctors report, marked the one-week milestone since she was shot in the head by undergoing a tracheotomy, a surgical procedure in which a breathing tube is inserted into the neck...

Chronicling the Leftist climate of hate
Who bears the guilt of the Tucson shootings? A teachable moment (or - civility, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing…) Insty turns us on to a new blog that should come in handy next time a progressive wants to lecture us on civility, tone, tolerance and violent Rhetoric. And you Progressives know who you are....

Good God, She Really Is That Stupid
Last week, the House of Representatives debated -- and then passed -- a non-binding resolution condemning the Tucson shooting of last weekend. Apparently this critical and Controversial measure was touch-and-go at one point, in serious danger of not passing, because House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took to the floor to to plead for its approval: "This resolution is a fitting tribute. It is a great resolution. Please, read it again and again. Carry those names in your heart. Remember, each of ...

Gabrielle Giffords Is a Woman: Here's Why It Matters
​On Wednesday night, four days after being shot through the head, Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords opened her eyes. Along with her husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, she was surrounded by a group of women whom she considers both friends and mentors, including New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. As Pelosi put it, "We saw a little girl power too." In a post on Jezebel, Irin Carmon writes about how the ...

Arizona shooting victim arrested for death threat against tea party leader
ABC affiliate KGUN-TV reports that one of the Victims of last Saturday's shooting in Tucson was arrested Saturday morning for making a threat against a local tea Party Leader at a town hall meeting scheduled to be televised Sunday morning. According to a report by Forrest Carr, the meeting was taking place at Tucson's St. Odilia's Catholic Church and was attended by local dignitaries, witnesses to the shooting and the First Responders.  Tucson mayor Bob Walkup, Congressman Raul Grijalva and...

Death Threat to Tea Party Member at Tuscon Town Hall
The Tuscon ABC affiliate with the remarkably politically incorrect call sign of KGUN-9 reports: The meeting room at St. Odilia’s Catholic Church on the city’s northwest side was packed with local dignitaries, witnesses to the Mass Shooting Jan. 8, some of the witnesses to the shootings and the First Responders to the scene for a taping of an ABC-TV special, a town hall event, at 11 a.m. Saturday. Host of the program, This Week, is Christianne Amanpour. The show will air at 7 a.m. S...

The Tucson Massacres Hall Of Shame: Leftists Who Used Tragedy To Smear The Right
The massacre in Tucson was a horrendous tragedy. Everyone in the country, of every ideological stripe, should have been allowed to mourn the Victims’ deaths and injuries without the imposition of having to defend people who had nothing at all to do with it. But where normal people saw tragedy, the Far Left saw opportunity. They jumped at the chance to implicate an entire movement, and their leaders, (most notably Sarah Palin) as accessories to the crime. They did this before anything was e...

Business brisk at Tucson gun show week after rampage
By Tim Gaynor Tucson, Arizona | Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:45pm EST Tucson, Arizona (Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive Gun Laws in the United States. "People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I'm going to get shot," said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city...

Majority Of Americans Believe Left Attempted To Exploit AZ Tragedy To Make Right Look Bad
Quick post on Gallup who finally asked the appropriate question about what portion of Americans feel the Far Left and commentators that attempted to convince the public to think the right's Rhetoric was somehow responsible was "the tragedy to make Conservatives look bad." In other words, the public saw right through the left's pathetic attempts to spin and connect the right with the act of Jared Lee Loughner when he shot and killed 6 people and injured 13 others. The poll was conducted Jan. 11...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
If White House Was Surprised by Applause at Tucson Pep Rally… Why Did They Ask For It On JumboTron? On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they were surprised by the applause at the memorial pep rally on Wednesday for the Victims of the Tucson shootings. I will say that I read the Speech several times and thought that there wouldn’t be a lot of applause if any. I think many of us thought that. But I think there was a ...

Interim leader sees 'democracy for all children of Tunis'
Arizona shooting Six people were killed and 14 others wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona....

Giffords continues to improve: doctors
US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords no longer needs a ventilator after doctors replaced her breathing tube with a different one. Hospital officials say that Giffords underwent a procedure on Saturday to have a tracheotomy tube inserted in her windpipe to protect her airways, freeing her from the ventilator. She had been breathing on her own since she was shot in the head on January 8. Doctors said Giffords remains in critical condition, but is recovering well. Giffords was gravely wounded in a m...

Arizona shooting victim arrested after alleged death threat to Tea Party leader
Fuller was subsequently escorted away by deputies.  He is set to be charged with threats, intimidation, and disorderly conduct.  It is unclear if ABC News has footage of the incident, or if they will be airing the footage if they have it. For his part, Fuller has made Tea Partiers upset by directly blaming Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and Sharron Angle for the shootings.  Fuller is age 61, a Military Veteran, and an avid supporter of Congresswoman Giffords. Examiner.com is looking for...

The Backfire
When the latest leftist witch hunt backfires, even one of the New York Times columnists notices : The American people know it, too. According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll released Wednesday, 42 percent of those asked said that political Rhetoric was not a factor at all in the shooting, 22 percent said that it was a minor factor and 20 percent said that it was a major factor. Furthermore, most agreed that focusing on conservative Rhetoric as a link in the shooting was “not a legitimate point bu...

The Politics of Hateand Hate Speech
by Walter Brasch Just about anything that could be said about the Murders in Tucson have been said. We know that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was holding a “Congress on the Corner” meeting outside a Safeway Grocery Store. We know that a 22-year-old named Jared Lee Loughner is in FBI custody, and has been charged with one count of attempted Assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the United States and two counts of intent to kill employees of...

McMorris sworn in to 112th Congress, promises to be "proactive"
While certain politicians are mainly sworn at, a swearing in of  Representative Cathy McMorris to the 112th Congress took place this week.  Starting a new term, she says:  "I am committed to listening to the American People, making government more accountable and transparent, and taking proactive measures to grow our economy, create jobs, and put our fiscal house in order." Read more about her inspired plans for America and Washington's 5th District in 201...

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: A tale of two Americas
A week after US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, the two strikingly different tales of her attacker and her rescuer have emerged....

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Why it is time to change gun laws
The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords shows why it is time to rethink America's Gun Laws, says Harold Evans....

Giffords Taken Off Ventilator
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) has been removed from the ventilator that she had been on since being shot one week ago. Doctors also replaced her breathing tube with a tracheotomy tube, according to reports by various media outlets based on an update from the University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz. Not a Subscriber? To continue reading, sign up for a free trial. Senate Tea Party Caucus to Meet Jan. 27 Texas Lt. Governor in Running for Open Senate Seat ...

Wounded US lawmaker breathing without ventilator
The US lawmaker shot in the head in Arizona was removed from a ventilator Saturday and is breathing on her own through a tube inserted into her windpipe, the University Medical Center announced. Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who survived despite being shot through the head from point-blank range a week ago, remains in critical condition. "A surgical procedure (tracheotomy) was performed this morning on the Congresswoman to replace the breathing tube that ran down her throat with...