Obama: 'We carry on'

Obama: 'Stay true to our words'
Following a week of national mourning over the deadly Tucson, Ariz. shootings, President Barack Obama called on elected officials to change the tenor of political discourse in order to meet the nation’s challenges. “We properly spent much of the week mourning the Victims and remembering their lives,” Obama noted in his weekly address. “We also discovered stories that serve to lift us up – stories of heroism and Bravery, of courage and community – stories tha...

Obama urges bipartisanship after Arizona shootings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Americans on Saturday to maintain the "spirit of common cause" that arose from grieving over the Arizona shootings and use it to solve the nation's problems. Legislative work in Washington came to a halt this week while lawmakers and citizens from both parties mourned the Victims of a gunman who went on a rampage in Arizona on January 8, killing six people and wounding 13, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Obama gave a well-received...

Ex-candidate charged with making threats in Ind.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A woman who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress last year has been charged with making threats against Indiana judges on her Facebook account. Fifty-one-year-old Cheryl Allen of Martinsville, Ind., was being held on $100,000 bond Saturday. She was arrested Thursday on eight felony counts of intimidation. Prosecutor Steve Sonnega says he was among the targets and turned over the investigation to State Police and a special prosecutor. He says he decided to err on the sid...

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...

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...

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...

Taxes or Spending or Both, Oh My
From Hot Air CBS poll shows tax hikes favored by … 9% by Ed Morrissey The best part of this poll?  The sampling follies at CBS don’t even really matter, although this poll’s sample is closer to reality than most.  When given a choice between tax hikes or Spending Cuts, it turns out that 77% of Americans are Tea Partiers, as Jammie Wearing Fool says: [A CBS] News poll finds that Americans strongly prefer cutting spending to raising taxes to reduce the federal Deficit. While 77 p

VA Tech and Tucson -- The Ties That Bind
What a week of political buzz surrounding Jared Lee Loughner’s (22) allegedly killing six people and injuring 13 others with a Handgun last Saturday (January 8, 2011) at a political event outside a Safeway store in Tucson, AZ.  Among the injured, with a shot to the head, was the event sponsor and apparent primary target, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). In 2007, Loughner attended a Giffords event that his friends said left him upset. He apparently didn’t like her response to h...

AZ Shooting Victim Arrested For Death Threat To Tea Party Leader During ABC News Townhall
Merely a week after a crazed gunman shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head and left several others dead and wounded at a local political event, a Tea Party spokesman in the same area received a public Death Threat at a town hall meeting- from one of Jared Loughner ’s Victims. Local station KGUN is reporting that Eric Fuller a 63-year-old Military Veteran who was shot in the back last Saturday while attending Rep. Giffords’ “Congress on Your Corner” event,...

Man shot at Giffords Rally arrested at ABCNEWS Town Hall for Threatening Teaparty Member...
In an emotional town hall event to air Sunday morning on "This Week," anchor Christiane Amanpour gathered together - for the first time since the tragic shooting one week ago - many of those who were in the Safeway Parking Lot on that fateful day when Rep. Gabriel Giffords, D-AZ, and 18 others were shot. The colonel who wrestled the gunman to ground, the petite woman who knocked away his ammunition, the heroic intern who staunched the Congresswoman's bleeding - all joined Aman...

"Half A Trillion In Cuts To Medicare"
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Watch as GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH) is confronted at a local town hall meeting, asked what the heck he thinks he is doing saying he will vote to Repeal the Health Care reform law. Renacci replies that he and fellow Republicans campaigned on reversing the "half a Trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare." (From Daily Kos.) Republicans campaigned on protecting seniors from Medicare ...

Dave Johnson: "Half A Trillion In Cuts To Medicare"
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Watch as GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH) is confronted at a local town hall meeting, asked what the heck he thinks he is doing saying he will vote to Repeal the Health Care reform law. Renacci replies that he and fellow Republicans campaigned on reversing the "half a Trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare." (From Daily Kos.) Republicans campaigned on protecting seniors from Medicar...

Er, Folks... That's McCarthy, not Maloney
There's been one more flaw revealed in U.S. Congress over recent days: Reporters apparently don't know the difference between Manhattan Rep. Carolyn Maloney (left), and Long Island Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (right). Yes, they are both Democrats. And yes they are both Carolyn M. But Maloney is a wealthy, Upper East Sider, with a locally appropriate patrician manner. McCarthy is a former nurse with a penchant for salty language. And she's the lawmaker who took office after her husband was ...

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...

I Dare You Not To Comment [Anthony McCarthy]
The Corporate Media consensus on Jared Lochner is that he was merely a crazy person who had some unspecified fixation on Congresswoman Giffords and that he was entirely uninfluenced by the poisonous political atmosphere in Tuscon, Arizona or the United States in general. That was the word I heard minutes after the shooting had been announced, before anyone knew anything about Jared Lochner, before there was any evidence of motives in the mass Murder. That immediately delivered scenario, mixed wi...

Tucson town-hall meeting ends in arrest of man
Source: Arizona Republic (Azcentral) A man attending a special town hall in Tucson designed to promote conversation and healing a week after the grocery-store shooting was arrested after his outburst at a guest who spoke in support of Gun Ownership. The identity of the arrestee was still unknown Saturday afternoon. The incident took place near the end of a taping of ABC's weekly "Town Hall" with news anchor Christiane Amanpour. The program, which airs Sunday and is called "Tragedy in Tucson: An ...

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...

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...

Doctors open breathing hole in Giffords' throat
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Doctors performed a tracheotomy on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, inserting a breathing tube through a hole in her neck and removing her from a ventilator, Hospital officials said. It was the first time Giffords was removed from the ventilator since last Saturday, when she arrived at University Medical Center after a gunman shot her through the head. Giffords, 40, remains the only patient in critical condition from the shooting that wounded 12 others. ...

The meaningless gesture of bipartisan seating at SOTU
In response to the shooting in Tucson, a number of Democrats (and a handful of Republicans) have put forward the notion of bi-partisan seating for the State of the Union address, as if that shooting were a product of the supposedly poisonous political climate. Now, I’m wondering if any of those Democrats proposing this idea proposed it when a Republican was president subject to the vile vilification from the left.  How many of these Democrats have confronted the nastiness on their side...

Dismembering what is left of health care monstrosity
Image via Wikipedia Washington Post: With the House preparing to vote this week on whether to Repeal the Health Care law, the chamber's new Republican majority already confronts a far more delicate task: forging its own path to expand health coverage and curb medical costs. The House's GOP leaders have made clear that they regard the Repeal vote, scheduled to begin Tuesday, as the prelude to a two-prong strategy that is likely to last throughout the year, or longer. They intend to dismember th...

Doctors Replace Giffords' Breathing Tube
Like this Story? Share it: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband, the Astronaut Mark Kelly, sits with her in her Hospital room. (Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) Neurosurgeon Dr. David Langer spoke with Betty Nguyen on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' road to recovery and what she can expect upon leaving the hospital. Gabrielle Giffords' Staffer Pam Miller survived being shot in the chest and upper hip. A bullet remains in her body which she calls "an internal souvenir of a really horrendous day....

Price Of Admission
Ramesh Pannuru's op-ed in the NY Times is quite odd: if anything it's a tacit admission that Republicans aren't going to every try to govern because they can't. The party of "personal responsibility" shouldn't even try to mess with Social Security or Medicare, because they'll only pay for it in 2012. Why not just do nothing and blame Obama instead? This isnt hyperbole, folks...this is his actual admonition to Republicans in the column. Reforming these programs is vital to our nation’s long...

Pat Buchanan Defends Sarah Palin in Heated Debate with Liberal Bill Press Video 1/14/11
Visit MSNBC.com for breaking news, world news, and news about The Economy Here is video of Pat Buchanan and liberal Bill Press duking it out on The Ed Show yesterday, over whether Sarah Palin is a Victim or to blame in the wake of the Tucson Mass Shooting. Pat Buchanan offered a strong defense of Palin, saying she has been savaged since the shooting last Saturday, even though she has no personal responsibility for the attack. Buchanan reminded Press that Barack Obama himself made the remark in...

Tucson moves on: Safeway reopens, gun show draws thousands
Reporting from Tucson — A week after a Mass Shooting left six dead and 13 injured, Tucson struggled to return to normal on Saturday as thousands packed a gun show and the Safeway Supermarket where the attack took place reopened. At both places, mourners observed a moment of silence to pay tribute to the 19 people shot a week ago. At both sites, people said they were saddened by the senseless violence but were ready to move on. At 10:11 a.m. Mountain time, many at the shopping plaza fell...