Why Did The GOP Think It Had To Delay The Health Reform Repeal Vote?

Americans get it: It's just a horrible coincidence
CBS News is out with a new poll today that finds Americans strongly rejecting the notion that the political climate played a role in Saturday's attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Fifty-seven percent of respondents say that the nation's "harsh political tone" didn't have anything to do with the shooting rampage, compared with 32 percent who say it did play a role. Not surprisingly, Republicans are more unified in denying any linkage (a 69 to 19 percent margin), but even a plurali...

Media misses a good opportunity to keep quiet
In my latest column for The Week, I recall the observation made by Jacques Chirac in February 2003 that the eastern European nations “missed a good opportunity to keep quiet.”  The remark drew immediate scorn for its arrogance at the time, but perhaps it applies better to the fact-free free-for-all we’ve seen in the media the last three days in response to the shootings in Tucson.  In the column, I sum up a few of the arguments I’ve made in the pushback to the blame-c...

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal vote on healthcare reform (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Corporate America's biggest lobbying group on Tuesday praised a more business-friendly tone from the White House, but backed Republican efforts to dismantle the Obama administration's healthcare overhaul. "We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Healthcare Reform," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue said. The Republican-led House of Representatives was set to conduct a largely symbolic vote...

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal vote on healthcare reform
"We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Healthcare Reform," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue said. The Republican-led House of Representatives was set to conduct a largely symbolic vote to Repeal Obama's signature domestic accomplishment this week, but it was delayed after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Donahue, in delivering his annual "State of American Business" address, also pressed for more open markets in Chin...

Is the 'vitriolic rhetoric' from the right and the left really equal?
Right or wrong, the role of "political Rhetoric", has become the center of Arizona shootings story.  Last night both Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck went on the offense against the left, arguing that it is shameful for them to claim the right's rhetoric had any role in the shootings.  O'Reilly verbally slammed The New York Times, Paul Krugman, and MSNBC as "merchants of hate" for criticizing the rhetoric of the right in relation to the shootings .  The argument of O'Reilly, and conse...

Blood Libel
The drumbeat of blaming Conservatives for causing the Tucson shooting seems that it will never cease.   No evidence has yet been presented that Jared Lee Loughner had ever heard of Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh, let alone was provoked by their words. Yet the rush to conclusions proceeds completely uninhibited by any evidentiary requirement.  It seems sufficient for some to presume that Conservatives = guns/violence, therefore, Conservatives are to blame for any violent attack using a firearm. ...

Sanders Fundraises Off Arizona Murders
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. There has been no shortage of individuals and institutions that have sought to capitalize on the shootings in Tucson. Add Vermont senator Bernie Sanders to that list. This afternoon Sanders sent out a Fundraising appeal, seeking to raise money to fight Republicans and other “right-wing reactionaries” responsible for the climate that led to the shooting. Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new...

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...

Keep rampage blame where it belongs
We add our thoughts and prayers to the many for critically wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the six people killed, including a senior Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl fascinated by politics, a congressional aide and three other innocents, as well as the 13 people wounded, in the attack Saturday in Tucson. The accused, Jared Loughner, is a deeply disturbed young man whose violent proclivities had frightened several acquaintances but who had not yet done anything overt enough to bring h...

Hate, violence, extremism: Krugman on the Arizona shooting
By Michael J.W. Stickings Just to drive the point home, allow me to quote Paul Krugman, who yesterday made the case that many of us have been making the past few days: When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? Put me in the latter category. I've had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the fina...

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...

Peter King: Both Sides to Blame for Inflamed Rhetoric
In a brief interview after his Gun Control Press Conference with Mayor Michael Bloomberg today, Long Island Congressman Peter King weighed in on the big question that has been dominating the blogosphere: How much is the violent Rhetoric, of the type used by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, responsible for the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy? King's take: The media were too quick to pounce on shooter Jared Loughner's supposed radical affiliations. "I think too many elements in the media were too quick...

Leahy: political rhetoric has 'gone too far'
Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt) said Tuesday that Freedom of Speech comes with responsibilities, arguing that political Rhetoric has "gone too far." "In a free society - the society we always want America to be - government should not and must not restrain free expression. But with freedom comes responsibilities," said Leahy to a crowd gathered at the Newseum in Washington. "The seething Rhetoric has gone too far. The demonizing of opponents, of government and of public service,...

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...

Boehner says he'll take cue from sergeant at arms on lawmaker security
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday he takes his cues on member security from U.S. Capitol Police and sergeant at arms. "In general when it comes to the security of members, I'll rely on the sergeant at arms and the Capitol Hill Police and their recommendations to us," Boehner said. Asked if he would hold votes on gun-control measures, in response to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), Boehner deflected. Following the four-minute pro forma House session, Boehner stopped t...

Is Jared Lee Loughner linked to Tea Party, conservatives, or libertarians? (Gabrielle Giffords shooting)
Q. Is Jared Lee Loughner linked to the Tea Party, conservative, or Libertarian movements? A. At this time, there's no indication that Loughner was a member of any organized political movement. He was a registered independent who hadn't voted in 2010 (link). The DHS claim that he was linked to the white racial separatist group AmRen is false. Given what we know now, the chances of him being welcomed as a member of any group outside the far fringe is remote [1]. Given his history, the chances th...

Tucson shooting victim shielded wife from hail of bullets
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - An elderly man who died using his body to shield his wife from a withering hail of bullets when a gunman sprayed a crowd in Tucson on Saturday, was remembered for his heroics on Tuesday. Dorwan Stoddard, a 76-year-old retired Construction Worker, died saving his wife, Mavanelle, by covering her on the ground as the gunmen shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others at a street corner congressional outreach event. "We are just blessed that he is walking with the Lord n...

Paul Krugmans totalitarian temptation
Found via Protein Wisdom Washington Examiner: Jared Loughner, the gunman charged with wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and murdering six others in Tucson on Saturday, held bizarre beliefs about “conscious dreaming” and government mind control imposed through English grammar. No serious person would connect his belief system to a mainstream political ideology. But then there’s New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He places the blood Libel of blame for the Tucson murders square

State of the Union Scheduled for Jan. 25
A new Congress provides us a renewed opportunity to find common ground and address the priorities of the American People. Our actions must be driven by their desire for freedom, Economic Recovery and fiscal sensibility, as well as a need to rebuild the broken bonds of trust between the people and their government. Recent events have reminded us of the imperfect nature of our representative Democracy, but also how much we cherish the ideal that our government exists to serve the people. Even in t...

Unreal: Newsweek Says Discredited 2009 DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism Could Have Stopped Giffords Gunman
With one glaring problem in Newsweek’s rush to blame the right, the killer is severely mentally ill with leftist beliefs. (Newsweek)- Two years before the Tucson massacre, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report that right-wing Extremism was on the rise and could prompt “lone wolves” to launch attacks. But the agency backed away from the report amid intense criticism from Republicans, including future House Speaker John Boehner. The report, which warned that the ...

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal vote on healthcare reform
Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:07am EST (Corrects spelling of Donohue's name) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corporate America's biggest lobbying group on Tuesday praised a more business-friendly tone from the White House, but backed Republican efforts to dismantle the Obama Administration's healthcare overhaul. "We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Healthcare Reform," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said. The Republican-led House of Representative...

Chamber of Commerce backs repeal vote on healthcare reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corporate America's biggest lobbying group on Tuesday praised a more business-friendly tone from the White House, but backed Republican efforts to dismantle the Obama Administration's healthcare overhaul. "We see the upcoming House vote as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at Healthcare Reform," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donahue said. The Republican-led House of Representatives was set to conduct a largely symbolic vote to Repeal Obama's signatu...

Mitt Romneys poll numbers in Iowa low
In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and that killed and injured more than 20 people, many pundits and politicians are pointing fingers. Others are hoping the incident will serve to ratchet down rancor. Yet emerging details make it clear the More… The remaining members of the Iowa Supreme Court have proven they are immoral and “open enemies of God” by choosing Mark Cady as Chief Justice, and thus, all deserve to be ...

VIDEO: Rahm Emanuel Clarifies 2008 Comment "You Never Want A Serious Crisis To Go To Waste"
It is a comment former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel might wish he'd never made, in light of the fact that its being repeated in newspaper articles and editorials about Saturday's tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona. The quote is being used to explain how some lawmakers and political pundits on both sides of the aisle may be trying to exploit the incident and place blame on their opponents. Emanuel said the infamous comment was never intended to be about an incident such...

Republicans Delay Repeal Vote On ObamaCare
The weekend shooting in Arizona at a Congressional event with constituents has led House Republicans to delay a Repeal vote against President Obama's Health Care bill. Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition and a Congressional aide was killed along with five other people in an attack which has ignited a debate about the tone of political Partisanship in the nation. The motive of the young gunman remains unclear although liberal and conservative com...