Pima County GOP Chair Calls On Obama To 'Stop The Blame'

Tea Party as victim in Arizona
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Guardian: A nine-year-old girl lies in the morgue. A member of Congress faces a lifetime of struggle to recover from a bullet in the brain. A city is bracing itself for a string of funerals as it tries to fathom the carnage. But Trent Humphries says there is another innocent Victim left by Jared Lee Loughner's killing of six people and wounding of 14 others in his Assassination attempt against Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. It is his Tea Party movement and...

Sheriff Joe to Sheriff Dope-neck: Shut Up or Resign
The two neighboring sheriffs in Arizona,  Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, and  Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, could hardly be more different.  Yesterday, UNCOVERAGE.net called for the dismissal/removal/Resignation of Clarence Dupnik due to his extremely political and baseless statements blaming the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and Talk Show host Rush Limbaugh for “vitriolic” political Rhetoric which Dupnik claims caused Jared Loughner to Murder six people in Tucson this week...

A Tale of Two Sheriffs
The Tucson massacre that left six dead and injured 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, brought into sharp public focus the local sheriff, Clarence Dupnik. He’s been the sheriff of Pima County, which includes Tucson, Arizona’s second-largest city, for 30 years. For the 20 years before that, he was a police officer. Dupnik has gained attention this week for linking the shooting to the vitriolic political climate in the U.S., and in particular, Arizona. Speaking at a Press Conference...

Paul Krugman, Buffoon
Posted by John at 6:32 PM Within hours after Jared Loughner's Killing Spree, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went straight for the gutter, proclaiming, with no evidence whatsoever, that Loughner's act was in all likelihood "political," and going on to blame Republicans for the Murders. I denounced Krugman's vile blog post here. We now know that Loughner's murders were not political. He was deranged and had no coherent political philosophy. To the extent that he had any political beliefs a...

Could Sheriff's Political Rhetoric Prejudice a Potential Loughner Jury?
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik may have done considerable harm to the case against accused Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner when he announced moments after the rampage, "I think it's time that this country take a little introspective look at the ... crap that comes out on radio and TV." Dupnik stepped up the Rhetoric in the days following the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which put Giffords in intensive care, wounded many more and killed six. Calling it his "opinion" and invok...

Family of Arizona shooting suspect expresses sorrow
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The family of the accused gunman in the Arizona shooting spree expressed sorrow on Tuesday over the "heinous events" while the congresswoman shot in the head showed signs of improvement. In their first public statement, relatives of Jared Lee Loughner, 22, said it was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can possibly express how we feel. We wish there were, so we could make you feel better," read the statement, attributed to "The Lo...

There Is No Evidence That Politics In Any Way Contributed To This Atrocity: Arizonas Biggest Newspaper Rips Leftist Political Op
Arizona Republic: On Saturday afternoon, with his friend Gabby Giffords in surgery fighting for her life, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik railed against the tense partisan politics - “the anger, the hatred, the Bigotry” - that prompted the mass Murders outside Tucson, in his view. And, jarring as such claims may be, we understood. Or tried to understand, despite the spectacle of a lawman - an official whose very job it is to dispassionately gather facts and to...

Joe Arpaio Defends Sarah Palin, Says Sheriff Dupnik Too Political (VIDEO)
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, not exactly known for his Bipartisanship, thinks that fellow Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County is getting too political in his Rhetoric in the wake of the Mass Shooting over the weekend that killed six people and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). "Sheriffs are elected, like I am, thank God. I'm sure if he was a Police Chief he'd probably be fired tomorrow. I'm not trying to defend him, but he's the one that runs that sheriff's offi...

How Thoughtful of Him: Julian Assange Now Quoting Sheriff Dupnik
It's bad enough this national embarrassment known as Clarence Dupnik is being given all the air time possible to spew his insane bilge and getting congratulatory calls from Barack Obama. Now international leftist icon Julian Assange is sending his props by quoting the insane Dupnik.In the one page statement, Mr Assange also offered sympathy and condolences to the Victims of the Tucson shooting on behalf of Wikileaks, together with best wishes for the recovery of US Representative Gabrielle Giffo...

While Giffords Heals, Loughner's Parents Cry
Photo: AFP It was a good day for Gabrielle Giffords: While she remains in critical condition, doctors are reporting her to be healing and responsive. Doctors say that the third and fourth day after a traumatic brain injury are actually the most critical, and are optimistic that, though she's still not able to speak, her recovery is going well. More on Giffords, shooter Jared Lee Loughner and how Arizona is healing, below: Dr. Peter Rhee, the director of medical trauma at the University Medical...

Allen West Ready for the Offensive
From Bare Naked Islam Allen West is da man! Says he has NO plans to tone down his “strong Rhetoric”  Within hours of the shooting that killed six and critically injured Giffords, some commentators placed the massacre in the context of the nation’s heated political climate and blamed the Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin and other Conservatives although no public evidence has suggested accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner was associated with or sympathetic to any of them. Some critics poi

A History Lesson In Political Rhetoric
In the rush to explain Saturday’s tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, many in the media have rushed to link the bloodbath to what they see as the recent upsurge in harsh political Rhetoric emanating mostly from the political right. “It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for t...

Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Sheriff Dupnik Is 'Creating A More Dangerous Country'
One of The View co-hosts, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, stopped by The Factor and told Bill O'Reilly she wasn't happy about Sheriff Dupnik continuing to blame right-wing Rhetoric for the Arizona shooting. She also revealed despite being the only conservative voice on The View, she doesn't feel like she's ganged up on. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought,...

A Thought Experiment
Posted by John at 8:01 PM What would have happened if the Congresswoman with whom Jared Loughner apparently had been more or less obsessed since 2007 had been a Republican? Would Republicans have blamed the Tucson Murders on Democrats' "eliminationist Rhetoric?" They would have had a relatively good case; to take just one of many examples, they could have pointed to Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski, who said that the Republican Candidate for Governor of Florida should be put against a wall...

Gabrielle Giffords' Arizona shooting prompts resignations
Source: Arizona Republic (Azcentral) A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in Tucson on Saturday prompted District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others to resign. Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that election and Internet blog post...

John Roll Killing in Arizona Puts Focus on Judges' Security
Jared Lee Loughner’s target may have been Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, but his Murder of Judge John Roll is drawing attention to the threats faced by Federal Judges, especially those serving in border states. Shushannah Walshe reports....

Family of accused Arizona shooter expresses sorrow
By Brad Pool TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:11pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Family members of a 22-year-old man charged in an Arizona Shooting Spree that killed six people and injured 14 expressed sorrow on Tuesday and said they didn't understand why the rampage happened. In an eight-sentence statement that never mentions the accused gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, his family says the shooting's aftermath was a "very difficult time" and asked for Privacy. "There are no words that can p...

Next on the AZ Target List: Rep. Raul Grijalva?
I have some concern right now (in addition to the Victims of Sat’s shooting) for Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). He had to close his local offices in Yuma and Tucson back in April 2010 because of threats arising from Racists over Immigration and the infamous S.B. 1070 law. From HuffPo: Grijalva Staffer Ruben Reyes said the office has been flooded with calls all week about Senate Bill 1070. About 25 percent are “very racist” in nature, Reyes said, characterizing some as “t...

See BS Poll: Public Doesn't Believe Palin, et al, Caused Tucson Shooting, Yet The Libs Continue To Pile On
The barrage of lies from Liberal Democrats, Bloggers and their media lapdogs has failed, according to a See BS poll. 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. ...Overall, 57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with the shooting, compared to 32 percent who felt it did. Republicans were...

Psycho Killers Family Releases Statement
An unidentified man passes out a written statement from the family of Jared Loughner outside of his home. Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Tucson — The house on Soledad Avenue is comfortably in sync with the Sonoran desert, landscaped with cholla, nopal and saguaro cactus and mesquite. But since Saturday, the family home of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner has been swarmed by investigators and News Media. Loughner’s parents, Randy and Amy Loughner, have kept out of the publ...

Huckabee attacks left over Tucson shooting, portrays Loughner as liberal
Mike Huckabee, lashing out at criticism of violent Rhetoric from the right: Mike Huckabee: Loughner a 'whack job nut maggot' Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee lashed out at “left-wing politicians” and the media for their handling of Saturday’s Mass Shooting in Arizona, saying the rush to blame right-wingers for a Shooting Spree committed by a “whack job nut maggot” was “reprehensible.” Speaking on his Radio Show, “The Huckabee Report,” Mon...

For those about to Glock (fire!), we do not salute you
Two truisms about America: 1) There's no such thing as bad publicity and 2) There are second acts in American life... ...especially if your name is Glock: After a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8, Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready for a stampede of new customers. Wolff was right. Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters...

After the Arizona Murders, Politics As Usual
I thought the shootings in Arizona might cause a brief moment of unity. Twenty shot; six dead, including a little girl; an attempted political Assassination, an attack on Democracy itself. Was I naive to think that the instant reaction might be an uncomplicated desire to unite--in sympathy for the Victims and in deploring a crime against us all? Of course I was. It takes more than this to bridge the divide in American politics. One strand of commentary implicated the political right in the cri...

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Quotes Sheriff Dupnik, Says Americans Need to Tone Down the Vitriolic Rhetoric
Julian Assange has thanked Australia for its support of his - and Wikileaks’s - cause but called on Americans to tone down political Rhetoric, saying those who incite violence should be charged with incitement to Murder. …In the one page statement, Mr Assange also offered sympathy and condolences to the Victims of the Tucson shooting on behalf of WikiLeaks, together with best wishes for the recovery of US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The Democrat from Arizona’...

Public memorial set for Arizona shooting victims
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The city shaken by a shooting rampage that killed six people and left 14 injured prepared to come together at a church Tuesday to mourn the Victims, including a 9-year-old girl who sang in the choir. Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas will preside over the first official tribute to the victims at St. Odilia Catholic Church. The Diocese called the service a “Mass of healing for our community.” The modern turquoise-and-white church is only blocks from Saturday̵...