January 8, 2011
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday.

The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media.

At least nine other people, including members of her staff, were hurt. Giffords was transported to University Medical Center in Tucson. Her condition was not immediately known.

Giffords was talking to a couple when the suspect ran up and fired indiscriminately from about four feet away, Michaels said.

The suspect ran off and was tackled by a bystander. He was taken into custody. Witnesses described him as in his late teens or early 20s.

Whilst the DEM (Defeatist, Elitist Media) grilled Speaker Boehner to no end — in a fashion that clearly would not have been leveled against Brazil — in which the CBO was quoted. . .

1. Flight?

Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the National Election Poll exit poll conducted by Edison Research. Not even in Republicans’ 1994 congressional landslide did they win that high a percentage of the white vote.

Moreover, those results may understate the extent of the white flight from the Democratic Party, according to a National Journal analysis of previously unpublished exit-poll data provided by Edison Research.

2. Down Dems?

(CNN) – The number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats is at its lowest point in seven years, according to a new survey by Gallup – a warning sign for the president and his party as the next race for the White House gets set to begin.

According to the annual Gallup survey of party identification, 31 percent of Americans say they are Democrats – a number that is down five percentage points from 2008 and is the same as it was in 2003 – the year following impressive Republican gains in the House and Senate.

For shame, Demorats, for shame.

Demorats: the party of white racists?

BZ

From Politco.com:

Nearly 20 Democrats abandoned their party’s pick for speaker of the House, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a sign of their concerns about supporting the unpopular former speaker and of the difficulty she will have in marshaling her forces in legislative battles to come in the next two years.

One reason might be the sheer balls of former Speaker Pelosi in terms of – ahem – “prevarications.”

In her “farewell” press conference on Tuesday the 4th, The Nancemeister said “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.”

I read that a few times until it finally sank into my Wheelhouse. She really thinks this. She either thinks this (meaning that she is a totally unhinged Moonbat of the First Order) or it’s a Lie of the First Magnitude that she believes the DEM won’t call her on. Let me type that again:

Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.”

If you’ll humor me for a moment, I’d care to point out the obvious: former Speaker Pelosi cast aside common courtesy in her failure to even begin to prepare a budget for 2011; she spent her last hours as Speaker in Hawaii on the Taxpayers’ Bones, to the tune of $10,000 per day.

Overall, she presided over the greatest swelling of the national debt in our history. If you recall, the US debt skyrocketed from $9 trillion to $14 trillion on her watch. It swelled by a trillion dollars in just the past seven months.

When the Pelosi Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt stood at $8,670,596,242,973.04. The last day of the 111th Congress and Pelosi’s Speakership on December 22, 2010 the national debt was $13,858,529,371,601.09 – a roughly $5.2 trillion increase in just four years. Furthermore, the year over year federal deficit has roughly quadrupled during Pelosi’s four years as speaker, from $342 billion in fiscal year 2007 to an estimated $1.6 trillion at the end of fiscal year 2010.

I don’t know why, but Nancy Pelosi disturbingly reminds me of Katherine Helmond in the 1985 Terry Gilliam movie “Brazil,” a dystopian satire. But why believe me; let the illustrations speak:

BZ

P.S.
You have to admire Nancy Pelosi for one thing primarily: she exercised her power — and then some — when it came to supporting her party. No one can say that she wasn’t the quintessential advocate of her party, right or wrong, through thick and thin, through lies and crises, despite or because of various predicaments.

She held ALL the water of the Demorat Party.

Frankly, I can’t think of her counterpart in the Republican Party.

She was a fighter. I tip my hat to her aggressive stance and dogged insistence.

She’s nothing but a warrior. I acknowledge that. I wish the GOP had a host of warriors like her.

If for no other reasons than those, she deserves my respect.

We can only hope.

Again, as I’ve said before, I do not mind, at all, being associated with a true Conservative Party of NO when the issues conflict with Conservative values and involve the increase of government and unwarranted intrusion into my life.

From AllVoices.com:

House Republicans have stated January 12, 2010 as their day to vote on a repeal of President Obama’s health-care law. Republicans and Tea Party Activists campaigned against the landmark legislation as a government takeover of the health industry in the November midterm elections. A preliminary vote will take place on Friday January 8th.

The attempted repeal of the law is the first significant action by House Republicans in the 112th Congress. With 242 members on their side, Republicans expect to pass the legislation easily, but they privately acknowledge that the action faces opposition in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Senate Response to The Repeal Vote

Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), wrote incoming House Speaker John BoehnerJohn Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday warning the new GOP House against advancing legislation that would undo the sweeping healthcare overhaul.

“If House Republicans move forward with a repeal of the healthcare law that threatens consumer benefits like the ‘donut hole’ fix, we will block it in the Senate. This proposal deserves a chance to work. It is too important to be treated as collateral damage in a partisan mission to repeal health care,” wrote Reid, Majority Whip Dick DurbinDick Durbin (Ill.), Democratic Vice Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.), Conference Secretary Patty MurrayPatty Murray (Wash.) and Policy Committee Vice Chairwoman Debbie StabenowDebbie Stabenow (Mich.).