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Nancy Pelosi calls Tucson shootings a tragic accident
Nancy Pelosi calls Tucson shootings a tragic “accident” More proof that Liberalism is a Mental Disorder and that Botox rots the brain. According to Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the Tucson shootings over the past weekend were a “tragic accident.” Yes, she really said that! Seriously, an accident? Must be too much of those San Francisco ‘shrooms. ...

Pelosi Calls Tucson Murders an 'Accident'
"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 these people because, again, a tragic accident took lives, wounded people in the expression of ideas." 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, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all America...

Tucson attack motivation for Berkley's town hall event
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Metaphors Don't Kill People; People Kill People
metaphor: a figure of Speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our god.” Sticks and stones might break my bones but words will never hurt me. ~Nursery rhyme The recent tragedy in Arizona managed to unleash the pundits on both sides of the aisle. In this world where there must be a root cause for every wrinkle in the landscape and every calamity that befalls us, eve...

It Wasnt Enough
Hate to get all depressing on a Friday night, but I’m afraid “The Editors” at Esquire correctly assess the chances of civility: ... [T]he most remarkable thing about what happened in Oklahoma City is how little it matters today. The president of the United States gave a fine Speech Wednesday night in Tucson at the memorial for the people Jared Loughner shot. The only mention of Oklahoma City in connection with the president’s Speech was to compare it with the Speech tha...

Views on the News 1/15/2011
The leftist predisposition towards irresponsibly blaming every act of violence with political connotations on the “climate of Bigotry” created by right-wingers speaks volumes about the ideology of Liberalism. After the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder and injury of several others, the liberal media commenced their annual “Let’s Silence Conservatives” campaign. The deranged gunman, Jared Loughner, was deeply disturbed, not politically astu...

Of Course the Assassination Attempt Was Political
In the Fort Hood shootings of November 2009, the right was quick to link Nidal Malik Hasan to Terrorism, while the left insisted he was merely deranged. The reactions to the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder of six others this weekend offered a mirror image: Many on the left blamed right-wing political Extremism, while Conservatives insisted that Jared Loughner, the alleged killer, was a lone lunatic, without political motivation. If a whiff of political...

Washington Week
This past week, the House conducted Memorial Services for those murdered and injured in the Arizona shootings last weekend. The House of Representatives also passed resolutions and conducted general speeches concerning this horrific act of violence. On Thursday, many members of Congress traveled to Tucson, Ariz., for the national memorial service where the president and dignitaries addressed the nation. The memorial service was moving, inspiring and especially uplifting when the president announ...

Rep. Giffords Voted Against Pelosi for Minority Leader, But That Was so Last Week
On Saturday, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was taking down the family Christmas Tree in San Francisco, she heard a news flash that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had been shot in the head at an outdoor constituent meeting in Tuscon, Ariz. Seeking to distract herself as the horrific tale unfolded -- including early, erroneous reports that her colleague had died in the hail of bullets that claimed six lives and injured 14 -- Pelosi returned to dismantling the tree. Within minutes, she c...

Nancy Pelosi Doesnt Believe Ronald Reagan and Tip ONeill Were Friends
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi phoned in to talk to Chris Matthews. It sounds like they were talking about today’s nasty political atmosphere. Chris Matthews pointed out that at the end of the day, Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill were friends. Pelosi sniffed that she doesn’t really believe they were good friends, but she’d take Tingles’ word for it. So much for the new tone. Via Breitbart Related posts: Video: Nancy Pelosi Won’t Say When Jesus Christ Got t...

How the Media Botched the Arizona Shooting
When disaster strikes, Journalists have to write something about it—and write it fast. That means they have to take mental shortcuts, calling up established narratives and laying them out like old wrapping paper for new and more ambiguous facts. (Wife poisons husband. Revenge killing? Money killing? Self-defense killing? We stand at the ready with a lot of templates.) While the resulting gift isn’t always pretty, it’s generally good enough for deadline work. But sometimes the ...

Should we Change Involuntary Treatment Laws?
Sally Satel writes: I agree with the earlier commentators’ descriptions of what quality campus Mental Health systems should do — namely, provide campus-wide outreach via education; facilitate rapid access to care; establish intervention mechanisms that keep track of Students at risk; and coordinate with the local Mental Health authorities for Students who need those services. But two critical points remain. First, what actions can a school take in coercing treatment when the student re...

Is Help On the Way?
There’s still a lot we don’t know about the massacre in Arizona, but by now it’s quite clear that the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was mentally disturbed. In college, he was prone to surreal rants that unnerved classmates and teachers. While working at an Animal Shelter, he didn’t see why sick dogs needed to be kept away from healthy ones. Loughner’s friends were even aware of his weird obsession with Representative Gabrielle Giffords. (At one 2007 event, h...

Chafees Talk Radio Ban
Former U.S. Senator (and newly elected Rhode Island Governor) Lincoln Chafee issued an Executive Order on Thursday banning State Employees from having any contact with radio broadcasters. Chafee’s bizarre move is the latest liberal overreaction to the tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona last weekend that left six people dead and another fourteen (including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords) wounded. Earlier this week, U.S. Assistant Minority Leader Jim Clyburn said that America should “ re...

A Michael Steele thought experiment
A Michael Steele THOUGHT EXPERIMENT.... In June, in an electoral fluke, a man named Alvin Greene somehow managed to win the Democratic primary in South Carolina's U.S. Senate race. When state and national Dems balked, leading far-right voices -- Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and others -- insisted it was because the Democratic Party doesn't like African-American Candidates. Five months later, House Democrats were choosing the leadership for the next Congress, and Steny Hoyer, who is white, le...

Ignoring the President, Krugman doubles down on violent rhetoric narrative
A few days ago, Paul Krugman, NY Times opinion writer and Nobel Laureate - a fact no one on the left will ever let you forget - wrote what I can only characterize as a screed denouncing Republicans and the right in general for the use of violent language that he claimed led directly to the tragedy in Tuscon.  Now, two days later and after the President of the United States himself has denounced Krugman’s claims by noting - rightfully so - that a lack of civility ...

Epic Fail
Posted by John at 7:17 PM This Quinnipiac Poll provides more evidence that hardly anyone buys the Democratic Party's spin on the Tucson murders. When asked "What do you think is the main reason for the Arizona shooting; failure of the Mental Health system, lax Gun Control laws, overheated political Rhetoric, or do you think this is a situation that could not have been prevented?" respondents answered: * Mental health system: 23% * Gun control laws: 9% * Political rhetoric: 15% * Couldn't have b...

The Arizona Tragedy and the American Reaction
The story dominating American conversation this week is the tragedy in Tucson, Arizona. In shock, after a mentally troubled assassin named Jared Lee Loughner shoots a round from his 9mm Glock through the brain of beloved Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and then turns his weapon on the crowd and kills 6 bystanders while wounding 13 others — America mourns. Giffords is alive today and fighting for her life, the extent of the damage caused by her wound still unknown. There are positive signs...

Bill Maher: 'Because We Don't Have Government Healthcare, That's One Reason Why a Crazy Person Gets a Gun'
CBS Touts Dem Congresswoman Using Daughter to Pin Shooting on Rhetoric: 'Mommy, Are You Going to Get Shot?' More and more, the idea that Bill Maher has his own television show to advance his insane theories should be worrisome to right-thinking Americans. Chrystia Freeland, Reuters: I'm from Alberta. I’m from Alberta. Calgary has a Muslim mayor. My Dad does have guns, but we have universal healthcare. And Canada is heaven for the Elizabeth Warrens of the world because it has...

The War on Rhetoric
Today marks a week since an American Terrorist went on a murderous rampage in Arizona and so began the American War on Rhetoric.  The lone gunman was apparently fixated on Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. He met her three years prior to the tragedy in Tucson but that hasn’t stopped political pundits from placing blame, pointing fingers and blasting accusations.  The media should be ashamed for wagging their crooked fingers at anyone other than the American Terrorist who pulled the t...

A Climate of Slander
Jan 24, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 18 • By THE SCRAPBOOK Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Liberal pundits suffered a psychotic break last week, metaphorically speaking, of course. When a gunman opened fire on Representative -Gabrielle Giffords and a crowd that had gathered to hear her speak in Tucson, they were certain that Conservatives must, somehow, be to blame. So the liberal intelligentsia rushed to erect a gallows in the public square (metaphorically speaking, a...

The Weekly Wrap
Today on the Dish, we followed Tunisia as its President dissolved the government, and a State of Emergency was declared. Larison stressed the importance of Tunisians deposing an autocrat on their own, without US intervention and Andrew debated Evgeny Morozov on how instrumentalTwitter was. We rounded up reax and reports from the ground in Tunisia here, here, and here, and the role of Wikipedia in the coup here and here. Sarah Palin said sorry seven times (last year), Limbaugh sunk to new lows,...

When Even Excitable Charles Blow Thinks The Left Went Nuts With Their Blamestorming…
...Then most assuredly, they did. Charles calls his op-ed The Tucson Witch Hunt, and he believes the Left was way off base, and, consider, this comes from a super liberal with his head in the sand, who says later in the articleI have written about violent Rhetoric before, and I’m convinced that it’s poisonous to our politics, that the preponderance of it comes from the right, and that it has the potential to manifest in massacres like the one in Tucson.Obviously, he doesn't get aroun...

The Tucson Massacres The Hall Of Shame: Liberals Who Used Tragedy To Smear The Right
G.I. Wood Shop Inc. Mrs. Peel Oh…My Valve! V The K’s Caption This! An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later. 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 th...

Bill Maher: 'Because We Don't Have Government Healthcare, That's One Reason Why a Crazy Person Gets a Gun'
CBS Touts Dem Congresswoman Using Daughter to Pin Shooting on Rhetoric: 'Mommy, Are You Going to Get Shot?' More and more, the idea that Bill Maher has his own television show to advance his insane theories should be worrisome to right-thinking Americans. Chrystia Freeland, Reuters: I'm from Alberta. I’m from Alberta. Calgary has a Muslim mayor. My Dad does have guns, but we have universal healthcare. And Canada is heaven for the Elizabeth Warrens of the world because it has...