Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Giffords Shooting For Fundraiser!

Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Gifford’s Shooting For Fundraiser!
An extreme, left-wing Democrat group calling itself 21st Century Democrats has had the gall to send out an email blast using as a Fundraising tool Saturday’s criminal shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Judge John Roll and four others were killed in the incident, one of them a 9-year-old girl, but these Democrats are ignorant enough to be using this incident to try and squeeze donations from its supporters. Some might think the action of 21st Century Democrats is itse...

Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Giffords Shooting For Fundraiser!
An extreme, left-wing Democrat group calling itself 21st Century Democrats has had the gall to send out an email blast using as a Fundraising tool Saturday’s criminal shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Judge John Roll and four others were killed in the incident, one of them a 9-year-old girl, but these Democrats are ignorant enough to be using this incident to try and squeeze donations from its supporters. Some might think the action of 21st Century Democrats is itself...

By Any Means Possible
From Publius’ Forum Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Gifford’s Shooting For Fundraiser!   An extreme, left-wing Democrat group calling itself 21st Century Democrats has had the gall to send out an email blast using as a Fundraising tool Saturday’s criminal shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Judge John Roll and four others were killed in the incident, one of them a 9-year-old girl, but these Democrats are ignorant enough to be using this incident to try and s

Manchin: 'I have never targeted an individual'
In the aftermath of the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, freshman Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday defended his Controversial campaign ad involving a gun. In a 30-second ad that aired at the height of the campaign in October, Manchin (D-W.Va.) was shown shooting a hole through what is supposed to be a copy of the cap-and-trade Energy Bill.  Manchin said people should not confuse his actions with those of Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of shooting Giffords (D) on Saturday. “I've...

Scarborough On Giffords Shooting: Is This Not A Time For People, Like Sarah PalinTo Apologize?
Conservatives and Tea Party Activists have reacted with rage to what they view as accusations from the left that they are somehow responsible for this weekend’s massacre in Arizona that targeted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). In reality, Progressives are not trying to assign blame or argue that shooter Jared Lee Loughner — who seems to possess no coherent political ideology at all — is a member of any popular political movment, but rather to point out that words have consequ...

Democrats Hit New Low in Politicization of Shootings Keep Digging
Just imagine the outcry from the MSM if the Republicans pulled a stunt like this. (Big Government) — An extreme, left-wing Democrat group calling itself 21st Century Democrats has had the gall to send out an email blast using as a Fundraising tool Saturday’s criminal shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Judge John Roll and four others were killed in the incident, one of them a 9-year-old girl, but these Democrats are ignorant enough to be using this incident to t...

Gabrielle Giffords Expressed Desire To Tone Our Rhetoric And Partisanship Down One Day Before Shooting
ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports: Less than 24-hours before she was critically wounded by a lone gunman at an event in her Arizona Congressional district, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, wrote an e-mail message to Kentucky’s Republican Secretary of State Trey Grayson expressing her desire find ways to “tone our Rhetoric and Partisanship down.” Giffords sent a note congratulating Grayson on his recent appointment as director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics

Tucson Shooting Update
With some 350 comments on the weekend post of the Tucson shootings, you've all clearly got a lot to say. So here's the latest: The Arizona gunman alleged to have pulled the trigger planned to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to his own words. From The Slatest blog: When the FBI raided Arizona gunman Jared Loughner's parent's home, they found an envelope in a safe that had the words "I planned ahead," "My Assassination" and "Giffords" written on it. That evidence bostered the case...

Flashback: Bachmann called for armed and dangerous citzenry on climate bill
In the wake of the tragic shootings in Tucson on Saturday, there has been a lot of talk about the influence of heated -- and at times, violent -- political Rhetoric, which has seemingly escalated in recent years. Sarah Palin has gotten plenty of attention for her midterms target map (replete with bulls-eyes) of Congressional Districts, including Arizona's Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D), who was critically injured in the shooting. But it's worth noting some of the other examples of extreme rhetoric ...

Glenn Beck to Sarah Palin: An attempt on you could bring the Republic down (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Justin Bieber: 7th most popular woman on the web Pollster Frank Luntz goes after 'violent' remarks on Huffington Post, MoveOn and Daily Kos Fanatical Fans: Professional sports team's finest [SLIDESHOW] Hinojosa voices support for bill that curbs 'threatening' Speech against lawmakers Politico’s Ben Smith gives credence to baseless SPLC comments on Tea Party connection in Arizona shooting In the wake of Saturday’s Tucson, Ariz., shooting that left...

It's not Sarah Palin's Fault
Are we to now cleanse the language of all references to Firearms and their use, “lock, stock and barrel”? Should we “take aim” at all such word usage? Should we “keep our powder dry” to be ready for the next whacko’s atrocity?  Should we "set our sights" on passing the ridiculous proposed Legislation being introduced in Congress to outlaw the using of certain words when discussing members of that body?  Another terrible episode of violence...

Media Matters For America Calls Out Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin
David Brock (r) and friends. (Hey, is that Bawney Fwank I see?) Oh please. Now David Brock has his panties in a bunch because Beck used vampire imagery and compared him to a “smelly kid in third grade.” (Media Matters) — Today, in response to the tragic shooting in Arizona and the increasing focus on the tone of political discourse, Media Matters for America founder and CEO David Brock issued an Open Letter to News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch asking him to rein in Fox News persona...

Rhetorical Reality
In “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Randy Newman’s wistful, Bush-era song about the end of the American empire, there is a line about “the leaders we have/are the worst we’ve ever had/but they’re not the worst this poor world has ever seen.” Words to take to heart as we debate whether or not Hate Speech on the right—above all, on Fox News, in the blogosphere, and on Talk Radio—has made events like the attempted Assassination of Congr...

Arizona shooting: Don't blame Sarah Palin -- get public schools to discuss politics
Ever since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona Saturday, critics have been pointing fingers at Republicans for their nasty anti-government Rhetoric. They have a point. But the real problem is in our Public Schools, which have left millions of Americans unequipped to engage in rational politics....

That was fast: Democrats use Arizona shooting for fundraiser, and as excuse to crush 2nd amendment
The bodies were still warm as Democrats ironically targeted an explicit individual right in the US Constitution. From The Politico via memeorandum: Carolyn McCarthy readies Gun Control bill One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce Legislation as soon as Monday targeting the high-capacity ammunition the gunman used. McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down an...

Another Democrat shamelessly politicizing the assassination attempt on Congresswoman Giffords: James Clyburn edition
I am disturbed by the events that happened in Tucson on Saturday.  I am even more disturbed (and disappointed) by the events that have happened since the massacre on Saturday. I am disturbed that the media immediately jumped in to politicize the whole gruesome affair.   Trying to blame Governor Palin and the Tea Party for this crazed killer’s actions is a new low (even for the main stream media). “ I’m disturbed but not surprised” ...

Okay, this is freaking me out...[With a little something you can do to help restore sanity]
The Full Story Is What We Need I am not a conspiracist. But I am an empiricist. So, lone gunman without transportation, and I think, "What's missing?" Report of Person of Interest being sought, and I think, "Good, it's being investigated. We will know, soon enough." But now this (from Brad DeLong): I Would Very Much Like an Alternative Explanation of This... Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva are both Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Arizona. On Tuesday January 4 the...

Tombstone Politics
By TIMOTHY EGAN NYT If it turns out that a poisonous variant of free Speech is partially to blame for the shootings in Tucson, we will most certainly be struck by the fact that Gabrielle Giffords was seen last week in Congress, reading part of the Constitution that allows an American Citizen to say just about anything. But as Rep. Giffords herself also pointed out, in March when she was a target because of her vote on Health Care reform, free Speech does have a cost. “We’

Gingrich blasts liberals over Giffords
Newt Gingrich is upset with liberals who are blaming Conservatives for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The former speaker of the House and possible 2012 presidential hopeful said Monday that some people on the left jumped too quickly to conclusions about accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 “[P]eople who would immediately scream about ethnic profiling, people who on the left have every possible incentive to never allow anyone to ...

Don't Blame the Gabrielle Giffords Attack on Overheated Rhetoric
A lunatic opens fire in public, and even before the cable-news air-fillers do their thing, a sort of involuntary political reflex occurs. The right worries: “I hope he wasn’t one of ours.” And the left chomps: “I bet he was one of theirs.” As now seems abundantly clear, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter, was not on anyone’s “team.” Aside from revealing Conservatives’ newfound oversensitivity and defensiveness, as well as liberals’ s...

Florida Delegation Weighs In on Arizona Tragedy
While Gov. Rick Scott issued an order Monday for all flags at state buildings to fly at half-staff this week in remembrance of Victims of the Mass Shooting in Arizona, members of Florida’s congressional delegation weighed in on the tragic events. The shooting resulted in the death of six people, and others -- including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. -- were wounded. Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz took to the airwaves, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Pre...

FBI: Family of suspect in Giffords shooting blocking access to house
Source: AZCENTRAL Family members of the suspect in the Gabrielle Giffords shooting on Monday blockaded themselves into their home north of Tucson and were refusing FBI agents' entry. At about 12:25 p.m., agents began banging on the Blockade built with 4-by-4 double-thick plywood, yelling, "This is the FBI. Let us in." The Blockade is preventing access to the front porch of the home. Some agents were sent behind the house, and media representatives could hear the agents talking with someone from ...

How to Eliminate Inflammatory Right-Wing Rhetoric
I don’t have much to say about the recent Arizona shootings by madman Jared Loughner, except this: Many commentators almost as mad as Loughner have attempted to connect this lunatic’s actions to “inflammatory right-wing Rhetoric.” I won’t go into here the long list of inflammatory left-wing rhetoric (and actions) that spill over into open violence. (Michelle Malkin has a good summary — with detailed proof — if you’re interested.) Instead, I’ll make...

On eve of shooting, Giffords sought to tone our rhetoric and partisanship down (The Ticket)
The day before she was shot at a political event, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) emailed a close Republican friend saying she wanted to promote ways to "tone our Rhetoric and Partisanship down." According to Kentucky news site cn|2, Giffords emailed Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson -- who lost to Rand Paul in the state's contentious GOP Senate primary last year -- to congratulate him on being hired as head of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. She said she wanted to talk to...

Should Congressional Staff be armed?
In the wake of the terrible Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder and assaults on so many of her constituents, some members of Congress are talking openly about their concerns for their safety and security. While this incident seems to clearly be the work of an insane individual without rational motivation (other than an obsession with Giffords which dates back several years), concerns about the safety of members of Congress for any future attacks will remain a topic of...