He Was Angry About Healthcare

Let's go after the real perps: the NRA and their supporters
Jared Loughner is in custody and I'd put money on his conviction and Incarceration.  But the rest of the perps are still out there, still armed, still certain of their rights, and still ready to shoot or help you shoot. Letter writers to the New York Times have, for the most part, agreed that the right has something to answer for. From Denver:  "Opposed to the perception disseminated by the G.O.P., it’s not the liberal elite exploiting the insecurities of the masses to g...

Fighting Words: In Tucson Massacre Debate, The Shooter Becomes Irrelevant
Before anyone knew anything about Jared Loughner beyond his name, pundits and politicians began a mad dash to assign ownership of his motives. Clearly, he was driven by conservative politics because Rep. Gabrielle Giffords supported health-care reform and was therefore an enemy of the Tea Party. No, wait. He was a liberal because he once read "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "The Communist Manifesto." The funny thing is that, despite Loughner's written targeting of Giffords and a past, bizarre claim ...

Limbaugh: Jared Loughner Has The Full Support Of The Democrat Party
The mugshot of alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner really angered Rush Limbaugh today. Not only because Loughner is getting all the attention he wanted, but also because “he’s snickering at every one of us in that mugshot.” While everyone can agree the photo is disturbing, it’s likely few would agree with Rush’s actual explanation as to why Loughner is smiling. Limbaugh theorized: “What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political...

Congresswoman Says 'Job-Killing' Is Hate Speech
Following Saturday's tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, which led to the death of six people and the serious injury of 20 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, echoed the growing call for a more civil political discourse by challenging Republicans to change the name of their Health Care Repeal Legislation: "The bill, titled the ‘Repeal the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act,' was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it...

Rep. Goodlatte Would Support Defunding Obamacare if Repeal Effort Unsuccessful
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Dan Joseph Rep. Bob Goodlatter (R-Va.) Washington (CNSNews.com) -  A Virginia Republican congressman told CNSNews.com that he would not only vote for full Repeal of President Obama’s Health Care Legislation passed last March, but that he would also support efforts to defund the Legislation if Repeal efforts fail. On Capitol Hill last week, CNSNews.com asked Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.): “Rep. Steve King of Iowa is advocating including language in every appropr

U.S. Chamber raises concerns with the healthcare reform law
The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for a Repeal of Democrats' Healthcare Reform law and then outlined specific issues it has with the Legislation during the annual State of American Business address on Tuesday. The Speech comes as the White House has been trying to repair relations with the business community in the wake of Democrats' midterm losses. Chamber President and CEO Thomas Donohue predicted Tuesday that "the president will see value in making the constructive changes that a...

The Chamber Shifts Right to Back Health Care Repeal
Tue Jan. 11, 2011 10:16 AM PST Just months after refusing to help Republicans overturn the Democrats' Health Care reform law, the US Chamber of Commerce has changed course and decided to push for Repeal, Chamber CEO and President Tom Donohue indicated Tuesday Morning. Donohue pointed to claims that the bill will raise premiums and kick people off their Insurance plans as justification for the Big Business lobby's shift: Workers who have been banking on employer-based coverage when they retire a...

Gabrielle Giffords, Christina Green & The Place The American Dream Went To Die
Like flies to feces, the Extremists who have so debased the American political system in recent years are feasting mightily on the latest watershed event out Arizona — the place where the American Dream went to die. The irony, of course, is that this debasement continues apace because the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to free Speech, no matter how vile, while Congress and Obama Administration, cowed by the NRA, all but assure the kind of violence that leaves a congresswoman with ...

The award of the Medal of Honor doesn't keep you from becoming a total idiot: democrat Sen. Bob Kerrey
The Repeal of ObamaCare played a role in the assclown shooting people in Arizona. Really. Check it out at around the 2:25 mark. "It's one of the reasons this guy was angry..." To date, there is absolutely nothing to suggest that ObamaCare had anything to do with this guy's determination to shoot a Congresswoman or anyone else. Sen. Kerrey should know better. The leftists should know better. We should ALL know better. Loughner a murderer, liberals are sick - Yes this Loughner kid is a murderer....

On Petard Hoisted: Sheriff Dupnicks Hypocrisy on Inflammatory Rhetoric
Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who on Saturday suggested radio and television Talk Shows were somehow responsible for inciting a man who may be mentally disturbed to kill six people and wound 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), once blamed policymakers for violence in his county because they had stopped institutionalizing mentally ill people. Dupnik also suggested that local schools should check the Immigration status of Students and that ...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
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. Chamber backs health repeal
U.S Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue said Tuesday that the powerful business lobby supports the House Republican Legislation to Repeal President Obama’s Health Care reform law. “Last year, while strongly advocating Health Care reform, the Chamber was a leader in the fight against this particular bill — and thus we support Legislation in the House to Repeal it,” Donohue said during a Speech on the state of American business. “We see the upcoming House vote...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce backs health repeal
Source: Politico U.S. Chamber of Commerce backs health Repeal By CHRIS FRATES | 1/11/11 1:20 PM EST U.S Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue said Tuesday that the powerful business lobby supports the House Republican Legislation to repeal President Obama’s Health Care reform law. “Last year, while strongly advocating Health Care reform, the Chamber was a leader in the fight against this particular bill — and thus we support Legislation in the House to repeal it,” Donohue said during

GOP walks unarmed into health-care repeal battle
By Nicholas Wilbur Ed. note: Most of our posts the past few days have, understandably, been on the Arizona shooting. We'll have more on that terrible story, but now let's turn back to Congress and the House Republicans' effort to Repeal the Affordable Care Act. This is the first of two excellent posts by Nicholas on that very topic. The second will appear tomorrow. -- MJWS ********** It would take more than a Golden Parachute from Goldman Sachs, more than a harem of Argentinian mistresses, mor...

Why Did The GOP Think It Had To Delay The Health Reform Repeal Vote?
As Republicans prepared to take over the House, they announced one of their first bills would be the Repeal of health reform because "that's what the American People want." If that's true, and repealing health reform is simply a sound policy decision called upon by the public, then why would Republicans have to indefinitely delay a vote that was scheduled for Wednesday in response to Saturday's attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords? Yes, a memorial service is scheduled for Wednes...

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...

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&...

States Cry to Washington: Remove Obamacares Medicaid Handcuffs
The big news out of a majority of state capitols is that ObamaCare’s Medicaid mandates will exacerbate state Budget problems and drive many states to the brink of insolvency. Thirty-three Republican Governors and governors-elect have signed a letter to the White House and Congress making an emphatic appeal that ObamaCare’s Medicaid provisions be repealed. Medicaid pays Health Care and long-term care expenses for certain categories of individuals. Medicaid has many problems, but the central...

And now, on to a subject that unites us (not) | Michael Tomasky
As a result of changes in direct spending and revenues, CBO expects that enacting H.R. 2 would probably increase federal Budget Deficits over the 2012-2019 period by a total of roughly $145 billion (on the basis of the original estimate), plus or minus the effects of technical and economic changes that CBO and JCT will include in the forthcoming estimate. Adding two more years (through 2021) brings the projected increase in Deficits to something in the vicinity of $230 billion, plus or min...

Senate convenes, swears in newly elected members
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst gaveled the Senate into its 2011 session just after noon on Tuesday, asking members, their families and friends to remember of the Victims of the Arizona shootings over the weekend. Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson then administered the oath of office to 16 senators elected to new terms last November. All were applauded by the crowded Senate chamber after the swearing-in. Gov. Rick Perry addressed senators about the coming challenges of the session, primari...

Rush Limbaugh: Its insane to fault Sarah Palin for Ariz. shooting (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Rep. Peter King to introduce bill making it illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of 'high-profile' government official Fellow commenters at UFO Conspiracy website questioned Jared Lee Loughner's sanity in threads We're probably alone in the universe, or else they're out to get us Mark Halperin: Conservatives should turn the other cheek when scapegoated for Murder Could Jon Huntsman really be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012? Talk Radio ma...

Loughner's Parents "Surprised" by Son's Troubles
Like this Story? Share it: New details about Tuscon gunman Jared Lee Loughner are being revealed as investigators search his home. Ben Tracy reports. Chris Wragge speaks with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller about the gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, and his thoughts on Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's recovery. Only On The Web: CBS News digital Journalist Arden Farhi spoke to Tucson-area residents as they reflect on Saturday's shooting and the impact it's had on their community. The home in Tucson, Ariz...

BERKELEY CHANCELLOR TIES LOUGHNER TO IMMIGRATION REFORM: There are two possible explanations:
BERKELEY CHANCELLOR TIES LOUGHNER TO Immigration Reform: There are two possible explanations: 1. Birgeneau believes there is evidence that Jared Loughner was somehow connected to anti-immigration Activism. If so, Birgeneau simply hasn’t been following the news about which he has used the authority of his office to opine, or has been on the inside of a bubble that ...

The Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Arizona and Jared Lee Loughner prosecution.
Peter King proposing law banning guns within 1,000 feet of President, VP, members of Congress, and judges. https://slate.me/enyX8B What did you think of all those crazy trick plays in last night's BCS National Championship Game? https://slate.me/hkyR0s 10 Percent Unemployment Forever?...

CBS poll: 57% of Americans reject Palin did it media spin on Arizona massacre
According to a CBS poll, a 57% majority of Americans do not believe this weekend’s mass Murder had anything to do with politics. Bad news for the Far Left which has worked overtime to smear Sarah Palin and the Far Right in the wake of the shooting. Just how badly folks on professional left failed at politicizing this tragedy for their own political gain? Even a 49% plurality of the survey’s Democratic respondents does not buy the meme that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are at fault ...