Rep. Giffords on so-called hit list of Dems 'targeted' by Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin: The link. You decide.
The horrific events of last weekend deserve a place in the historical record of this country. Pin it up right next to Jonestown, Waco, the Oklahoma City bombings and any of the multiple massacres we have had to endure. Infamously, the attempted Assassination of a US Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, and the Murder of six people will always stand in our national memory. But how will it be remembered? How will we recall the tragedy? Will our thoughts be triggered whenever we see the face of the a...

Deepak Chopra: Mr. Smith Has Come to Washington, Now What?
The new Congress has an unprecedented number of first-time members, thanks to the Tea Party, and half of these (around 45, I believe) have never held any elected office. Leaving aside one's reaction to the Tea Party, which on the left can be summarized as a horrified shudder, this influx of ordinary citizens is like a mass replay of Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: innocent, patriotic Americans have come to topple fat, corrupt politicians. Actually, I hope this isn't a caricatur...

Arizona trauma surgeon unfazed by shooting
By Peter Henderson TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:47pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - The head of the trauma team that fought to save the lives of Arizona Shooting Victims on Saturday may lack swagger, but not confidence. When word came that a gunman had opened fire at a Tucson Shopping Mall and that Victims including the local Congresswoman were on the way to his Hospital, University Medical Center Trauma Unit chief Peter Rhee's reaction was understated. "I thought my weekend was goin...

Toxic rhetoric: Twitter users want Sarah Palin dead, media yawns
Ever since the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, liberals have sought to blame Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for the attack. Shortly after the shooting, Jane Fonda sent out tweets blaming Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party. Encouraged by irresponsible and shameful reporting, a number of Twitter users have expressed their desire to see Sarah Palin dead, and some tweets actually call for her Assassination. “So…will everyone be satisfied then when Palin is assa...

In House, Security Briefings and Prayer
House Republicans will meet on Wednesday morning and will receive the first of several security presentations expected by law-enforcement agencies in response to the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, that left six people dead and Ms. Giffords and 13 others wounded. The House will convene at 10 a.m. and Speaker John A. Boehner will call up a resolution honoring the dead and wounded, praising emergency responders, and expressing the resolve of the...

Arizona governor asks residents to pray for victims
TUCSON, Arizona | Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:49pm EST TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer asked Arizonans on Tuesday to pray for the Victims of a Tucson Shooting Spree that killed six people and wounded 14. Devoting most of her annual State of the State Speech to the rampage, Brewer called it "something dark and ugly", according to a transcript of the Speech released by her office. Among those injured in the shooting on Saturday were Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who investig...

Arizona governor asks residents to pray for victims
Devoting most of her annual State of the State Speech to the rampage, Brewer called it "something dark and ugly", according to a transcript of the Speech released by her office. Among those injured in the shooting on Saturday were Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who investigators believe was the shooter's principal target, and who remains in critical condition at a local Hospital. Killed were a Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl and four others. The suspect in the shooting, 22-year-old Jared L...

Bloodshed in Arizona turns spotlight on political landscape of anger and hate
As Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona battles for her life after an Assassination attempt, the nation is trying to grapple with the violent tragedy that took the lives of 6 and wounded 14 people on Saturday morning, casting a dark shadow on the start of this year. On the morning of January 8th, while U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents at a ‘Congress on Your Corner’ event at a local shopping center in Tuscon, a gunman opened fire on the gat...

Security tight as Obama flies into Tucson
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 January 2011 20.02 GMT Barack and Michelle Obama observe a moment of silence at the White House for the Victims of the shootings. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Security will be tight in Arizona tomorrow when Barack Obama flies in for a memorial service for the Victims of the weekend shooting rampage. Obama's address at the University of Arizona in Tucson comes against a backdrop of a nationwide debate about whether violent political Rhetoric contributed...

Congress readies new gun-control bills after Gabrielle Giffords shooting
Congressional advocates of Gun Control are preparing Legislation to renew a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines of the sort suspected used in last Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. Arizona shooting: How safe are members of Congress? Such a ban was in effect between 1994 and 2004 as part of a ban on assault weapons, which also expired. Since then, clips such as those allegedly used by suspect Jared Loughner, which contained more than 30 rounds, have been available for purc...

Sarah Palin Target List draws criticism
Sarah Palin ran a website (that has already been taken down) which had a "Hit List" of twenty representative seats that she wanted voters to "take back" so to speak. In light of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, the website has been drawing unfounded criticism. 'My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other Victims of today's tragic shooting in Arizona. On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray for the Victims and their families, and for peace and...

Bernie Sanders (D-Socialist) Uses AZ Shootings as Fund Raiser
Ghoul’s Gold. (ABC News) — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, today sent out a Fundraising email to supporters in which he includes his analysis of the Arizona shootings that ties the tragedy to “right-wing reactionaries.” “This horrendous act of violence is not some kind of strange aberration for this area where, it appears, threats and acts of violence are part of the political climate ,” Sanders said in his letter. “ Nobody can honestly express surprise that ...

Obama to deliver State of Union address on Jan. 25+
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (AP) - (Kyodo)—U.S. President Barack Obama is set to deliver his State of the Union address on Jan. 25, the office of the House of Representatives speaker said Tuesday. House Speaker John Boehner sent a letter to the president with a formal invitation to make the Speech, the office said. The State of the Union address, which will be nationally televised before a joint Congress, is considered the most important policy speech the U.S. president delivers. Democrat Presid...

Lisa Kaas Boyle: John Boehner's At-Gavel Song: "Behind Blue Eyes"
Pete Townsend wasn't thinking about Speaker of the House John Boehner when he wrote the song "Behind Blue Eyes," but Townsend has said that the song is about the temptations that come with power, and it seems to be an ideal theme song for Boehner. Boehner came up from Poverty through struggle. It took him 7 years to get through college as he worked several jobs to support his education. Now he is a wealthy man, perpetually tan, and third in line from leadership of this country. Boehner has bee...

HUFFPOST HILL - Capitol Police Slow To Help Grijlava
With the Verizon-serviced iPhone barely numbing the pain, Americans struggled to cope with this grim news cycle. Bernie Sanders and the Tea Party Express were able to keep it together just long enough to ask for campaign cash. Peter King unveiled a bold Gun Control bill but still thinks uncooperative Muslim Extremists are the only real domestic threat. And Byron Dorgan and Bob Bennett are fleeing the Capitol altogether to get away from the damaging vitriol...and to advise corporate clients on ...

AZ: Giffords Targeted by Extremist Elements of Republican and Democratic Parties
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was among those shot in the Tucson massacre earlier today, has been targeted by Extremist elements within both the Republican and Democratic parties over the course of the last two years. Giffords was on Sarah Palin's infamous "Hit List" and a "bulls eye" was placed on her district by Markos Moulitsas, who put her name on a "target list" of Democrats who "sold out the Constitution." It is not surprising to learn that Giffords is known as "a moderate with an i...

Pete King: We Need to Stop the Fear
Rep. Pete King thinks cops need the power to stop people carrying guns within 1,000 feet of federal officials because Americans are becoming afraid of listening to lawmakers in public. The powerful Long Island Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee thinks the Arizona shootings that killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) with a bullet hole in her head have deeply chilled regular Americans. "I’ve gotten people saying, 'Hey, you’re a good guy -- do...

Hey Sarah, At Least Stand By Your Free Speech (Guest Voice)
Hey Sarah, At Least Stand By Your Free Speech by Tina Dupuy Last Saturday morning 20 people were shot in a Tucson Safeway Parking Lot by a 22-year-old who stated on YouTube he “won’t pay Debt with a currency that’s not backed by gold and silver.” Fifteen minutes after the news broke, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin tweeted, “The price of gold today is at $1,368.90 an ounce.” Coincidence? Yes. None of us want to live in a society where hyperbole, exaggeration, satire,

Progressive liberal and media failure! Only 32 PERCENT of those polled by CBS think Giffords shooting was politically motivated
Progressive liberal and media failure! Only 32 PERCENT of those polled by CBS think Giffords shooting was politically motivated As if the American Media hadn’t done enough damage to it’s own reputations over the last two years Cheerleading for Obama, Cheerleading for Democrats in the November Elections, and mocking John Boehner for his crying, the lame stream media may have finally jumped the shark “officially” in the minds of many Americans. According to a poll release...

Silence Is Complicity and Defensiveness Is Endorsement
When, for instance, Sarah Palin responds to the shooting by scrubbing her website but not by apologizing for her violent imagery aimed at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, that simultaneously says she knows she may be partially responsible for violent culture, but unwilling to state that publicly so as to change that culture. When Arizona Tea Party Leaders condemn the violence but then nonetheless make a show of publicly refusing to refrain from violent Rhetoric, they are acknowledging the tragedy whi...

Why is Palin Always the Victim?
I suppose I should not be greatly surprised by this, but blogger Melissa Clouthier has some inaccurate reporting about me on her site today. Within moments of the tragedy, Matthew Yglesias, Markos Moulitas and David Frum jumped on the blame-Sarah Palin bandwagon. Clouthier is referring to this tweet. I retweeted a copy of SarahPAC’s now famous gunsight map and added these words “This is unfortunate.” That does not constitute blame, but just in case of ambiguity, I underscored...

Sarah Palin's TV show ends planned 8-episode run
What happens if I lose power? AP Interview: Howard K. Stern says case vindicates him and Anna Nicole Smith. Judge dismisses drug Conspiracy convictions of Anna Nicole Smith boyfriend, Psychiatrist. Ex-VP Candidate John Edwards not named in wife Elizabeth's will, which leaves items to kids. Overnight Sensation: Ohio Homeless man with golden radio voice overwhelmed by job offers. Second Chance: Sports job offers pouring in for Ohio Homeless man with the golden radio voice. Brad Womack says he&...

Palin Put a Gun Target on Giffords's District; Now a Colleague Says: 'Palin Needs to Look at Her Own Behavior'
At the moment, we don't know if gunman Jared Lee Loughner was motivated by Partisanship or ideology. But his shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents was a political attack nonetheless. John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated... The Tea Party congresswoman from Minnesota is headed for the first-caucus state of Iowa. She's openly discussing a presidential bid. But would she really run? Only "if I f...

Family of Ariz. shooting suspect express sorrow
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The parents of a man charged with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords expressed sorrow Tuesday for the “heinous events,” their first public remarks since their 22-year-old son was accused of killing six people. “There are no words that can possibly express how we feel,” the family of Jared Loughner said in a statement handed to reporters outside their home. “We don’t understand why this happened. It may not make any differe...

Jared Loughner's Parents: 'We Don't Understand Why This Happened'
​The parents of Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people after shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head at a public event, have released a public statement via a written hand-out distributed to members of the media staked outside of the family's home in Arizona on Tuesday, according to the Arizona Daily Star. "We care very deeply about the Victims and their families," it reads. "We are so very sorry for their loss." Full text of their message after the jump. This is...