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Speaker Boehner Gives Tearful Tribute to Arizona Shooting Victims
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is honoring victims of Saturday’s shootings in Tuscon, including one of its own.
Republican Speaker John Boehner is opening the session of remembrances and tributes to the 19 people shot, six fatally. The remarks are expected to focus on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat shot in the head as she spoke to constituents outside a supermarket.
Later Wednesday, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and other lawmakers are flying with President Barack Obama to Arizona to console the victims and their families.
Twenty-two-year-old-Jared Lee Loughner is being held without bail in a Phoenix jail.
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Comments (103)
BlueCollared
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:05pmI seen a man cry once.
Report Post »Azmodious
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:56pmEnough with the crying! He really is the weeper of the house.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:53pmMy conservative friends……….let’s stop being a party to this bull@hit !!!! Let’s rally around a true american leader…..Allen West…… an African American conservative retired Lt. Colonel and an honorable american…..Let’s get them to nominate him……and then we steal much of the minority vote from Barry……..and won’t have to tolerate the “YOU RACIST” bull@hit any more…i’m done with liberals…time to beat them at their own game……take the race card away….
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M
Buck_Ofama
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:43pmBoehner cries more than Beck. Geez. Suck it up Johnny! Stop bawling like a sissy.
Report Post »half pint
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:53pmi agree
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:36amI’D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF THERAPY BECK went through. he seems much less inclined to pause , reflect and tear up since RESTORING HONOR – 8/28
i’ve been through hell also, before which i never wept. but now, my experiences differenciate the truly unique moments as exceptional and i momentarily am occationally overcome as well. i would like to conquer it, but not in favor of numbness or callousness.
Report Post »LETSBEFAIR
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:36pmWow, there seems to be a lot of heartless people on here. While it is important for a Congressman, especially a Speaker, to remain strong and resolute at the podium to present a sense of leadership it doesn’t mean they have to hide their emotions that make them human. He delivered a strong, heartfelt, nonpartisan, uplifting message.
American culture is infected with the fallacious idea that a real man has a German appetite for beer, a large beard, lots of chest hair, and is “well endowed”. It is truly sad. I‘ll take Boehner’s sincere crying over the remarkably fake smiles of Nancy Pelosi any day. A real, genuine human being doesn‘t need to hide behind the facade of American culture’s “real man” image.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:50pmThis guy has a medical hormone imbalance ,it can be treated.It isn’t normal to weep in public this frequently .It isn’t his fault but perception is powerful and can hurt his leadership and our party.
Report Post »LETSBEFAIR
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:02pmThat’s an interesting diagnosis. Do you have a medical background? I see no problem with crying for such an event, but you’re probably right about the frequency with which he does cry.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:17pm@LETSBEFAIR
Report Post »Crying because of this heinous event is understandable, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman. That is not the point. Did you watch Brewer’s first public appearance after the shooting? She too was genuinely heartbroken, yet she gave an uplifting speech in which she conveyed confidence in the future of this country. Her demeanor was one of controlled sadness and anger, and she exuded strength and self-assurance. Boehner, on the other hand, couldn’t stop crying. He seems to be a broken man, and I find that disturbing. Sorry, but we are facing a pack of ravenous commies. If we got ourselves a beta male to head our forces, he doesn’t stand a chance; they’ll skin him alive.
PhantomsPhorever
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:29pmI’ll give it a one in ten chance that the Repubs will summon the guts to even approach a repeal of Obamacare now. They have now been so completely vilified, and the fact that it is completely unjustifiable means nothing, that they will wait for the waters to calm. But it won’t calm, they will have just reinforced how susceptible they are to the Democrats strategy they received from Comrade Marx, tell the lie, tell the lie, tell the lie, when everyone is telling the lie, it becomes the truth.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:24pmWould you rather see him shed a tear for a worthy cause or poplossi crying because she is so scared? Some people are just never satisfied – oh well.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:19pmI’m happy that republicans are the majority in the house and I guess Boehner will be an effective speaker but he needs to get this crying thing under control .I‘m not saying that men shouldn’t ever cry ,there are times when it’s gonna happen but this guy ,you gotta be kidding me . Get your testosterone levels checked dude.Doctors can help with this.I respect where you came from how you busted your butt to get to where you are but this constant weeping makes you look weak and gives fodder to the left.
Report Post »thomasm1x
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:08pmI told my wife on Nov 3rd, after the elections,” you watch these idiot Republicans screw this up. You just watch and see”. I don’t expect DIDDLY CRAP out of these fools. You would think that 10 million people just got vaporized by an H-bomb the way they are carrying on. Geez……give it a rest and get your a$$ back to work.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:31pmI hate to sound callous, but where was all of this stage craft and national attention for the dead when those soldiers were gunned down by the Muslim major just a year ago? Where were the national and televised “moments of silence”, where were all the interviews with associates telling us how wonderful all the victims were, where were the politicians lining up to be in the photos at the funeral?
Hell brother, where are they when us normal people get slaughtered? Where are the politicians when the planes show up with dead soldiers fresh from Afghanistan? Where are the tears and gnashing of teeth by the “elite” whenever innocent people are killed in “normal” run of the mill murders in countless places across the nation?
Where were they when my great uncle passed away, a man who took a row of machine gun bullets across his legs from Nazis as he was charging a fortification? Is he less worthy of national recognition, who spent the remainder of his very long life crippled yet uncomplaining?
This was a terrible event. Clearly. I totally get when the local town shows up, family friends and actual co-workers even. Makes perfect sense. We’re being ramped up in stage craft propaganda though. Obama’s creepy silence in “stopping the speculation”, all the while making certain to attend the events (along with other high rolling politicians) with cameras rolling, should be telling to anybody paying attention.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:42pmI’ve been saying exactly the same thing, Ghost. Obama is a pathological narcissist who gained power and won’t let go without a fight to the death. He knows he is toast if Obamacare is repealed. We won’t even have to vote him out. The left will tear him apart.
I don’t know if there is a conspiracy behind the shooting, but what we are witnessing in the aftermath of this event is liberal theatrics at its worst, coupled with another commie onslaught on our freedoms. If Repubs don‘t get on with the people’s business, the little momentum left from our “win” last November will be lost forever.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 2:13pmI hear ya Kryptonite. It’s bothersome how easily swayed people are with such overt propaganda and stage craft. It’s nothing new of course, Bread and Circuses did buy quite a few years of non-revolt in Rome after all. It seems as if the majority of human beings, while claiming otherwise, prefer to be ensconced in a nice comfortable shell of lies (that they agree with) than dealing with hard, fast realities.
This is of course tangential to the actual topic, but it really bugs me.
Report Post »ReligionOfPeaceMyAss
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:06pmIDK…This guy just doesn‘t inspire me and he sure doesn’t exude the leadership, confidence and tenacity that is going to be required over the next couple years to beat back Obama’s radical agenda. I just don’t think the man has the kahunas necessary to stand up for bedrock conservative principles against the leftist in congress and not compromise away our power in the name of bi-partisanship which of course the Democrats are screaming for now that they got their collective asses kicked at the ballot box.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:40amGhostOfJefferson: “…when it becomes apparent to y’all, as it is known to us Ohioans, that he’s a full fledged RINO.”
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Well, that would surely make ME cry. Why do you say that?
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:48amRead up on his voting record. He’s McCain-ish.
He’s going to put up a front or maybe even a sincere fight to repeal Nazicare since he knows he has to play to his base at least a little, but I really don’t expect much more out of him to be honest. To be frank, they could have picked a much better person to occupy the position of Speaker. Instead they chose a guy who will “reach out to the other side of the aisle”, at precisely the point in history when that is exactly what we do NOT need.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:15pmGhost,
Report Post »I hope you are wrong about that. I hope he has learned that in this political climate when republicans are wanting their representitives to be more conservative, he needs to stop and think about what the people want.
kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:40pmWill do. It’s hard to be optimistic after what the Repub traitors did in the lame duck session. I am not sure if McCain finally woke up or if he’s playing politics, but he is taking a more conservative stance since the Reds took over.
I am very concerned about the way Boehner comes across. Strong men cry differently.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:31amWere there any tearful Democrats when President Reagan got shot?
Nope!!
Report Post »Carbine1
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:17amIt appears to me that Mr. Boehner Has a few nips of something before He makes a presentation on the House Floor
Report Post »PhantomsPhorever
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:22amAny Highway Patrolman that heard that voice would give him a sobriety test then and there.
Report Post »bry
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:31amWhere oh where is Sheriff Dupenik when you need him?
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:15amIf Americans learn anything at all from the events unfolding within minutes of these horrible shootings is this: The Left is for the very first time in a generation MORE transparent in their zeal to exploit this tragedy for political purposes. It is beyond any comparision I have seen in my life time. If you cannot see that! If you believe that this is wrongly said! If you believe that it is in fact that the Right has caused this! Then I ask you this. Why then is someone like me a former liberal/middle of the road guy calling it for what it is. How do you explain that Ivy leaguers like Prager, Medved and Hewitt get what is happening. Atleast for the first two they were in the same boat as I was until they saw how they could not justify their positions on the Left and thus realized that the Right was not so out to lunch as once programmed to think. You should examine this more closely if you cannot answer those questions. You may find that the truth often is found somewhere in the middle and above the fray.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:14amI can’t fault the man for having emotions. I just hope they don’t weaken his resolve to adhere to the Constitution. That’s all I want out of a legislator.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:37pmSometimes the tears of memory make you a stronger person. I know.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:11amWell done John.
Report Post »DaytonConserve
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:08amThank you Speaker Boehner. Dayton and the rest of Southwest Ohio is proud of you for expressing our feelings.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:41amPlease leave the crying in the bar after last call, not in the Congress.
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:03amWell done….now repeal Obamacare, “lean foward”
Report Post »be heard
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:02amGod Bless American!
Report Post »PhantomsPhorever
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:58amTHAT is the voice of us taking our country back? So our new Republicans first official act is 1. Cry 2. Enact emergency gun legislation that sets my representative apart from me, just a little more. I expect almost nothing from the new congress. They cannot hold firm in the face of unpleasantness.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:17amI’d rather a weeper than a whiner like you.
Grow up.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:34pmYes! Islesfordian, you got it right on the button. I’m so tired of all these whiners, complainers, liars (name them all) cold uncaring types who are out for themselves only. I’ll take Boehner any day over the likes of Pelosi, Clyburn and all their ilk who show in their eyes and actions, it’s all about them, not us.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 7:18pmWhen a man cries, what is going on? He is overwhelmed with the events in his life or the events of the world in which he lives. As you get older, and more thoughtful of your surroundings and how the world keeps beating us up with the crime, injustice, death of loved ones, and other things, a genuine man may give way to tears. The events are overwhelming to him and he (I) get emotional. This is not a sign of weakness but of recognition of the true condition of the human family.
Report Post »It is known that Jesus wept, as in the case of Lazarus’ death.
In Revelation 21:4 it is prophesied that our tears will be wiped away.
A man who never cries has no soul.
Zorro6821
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:38amVery well said!!
Report Post »bry
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:57amI truly feel that Rep. Giffords will be heart broken when she learns of the hate and vitriol this event has spawned. This is a sad and shameful era in American History. Instead of healing, salt is being poured, intentionally, into our nations wound. I pray, that as a Nation, we regain our senses before it is too late.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:10pmIt is never to late to stand up and cry for what is right. And yes even fight. The lines are drawn,no amount of negotiation will make it go away. They want tyranny, we want freedom and never the twain shall meet. If the people do not awaken to the danger and vote out the tyrants while they can,the it will come to civil war.That‘s it that’s all. My we be righteous enough to deserve Gods help.
Report Post »Shamokin_CoalCrackers
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:45pmWhen the dust settles on this “event”, I feel Rep. Giffords will not be the only one that’s heartbroken. If ANY of these Free Speech and Gun Control proposals are voted on and passed, turning the other cheek and waiting until 2012 will have become a mute point. Stick a fork in it folks ’cause this country will be DONE!
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:34amI am beginning to get the impression that Baby Boehner has mommy issues, and bit unstable. The face of the Republican Party should not be a crying orange guy but a strong and reasoned leader. The feminization of american men at its best on display. Enough with the crying and start leading!!!
Report Post »SecretPolice
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:57amI‘m certain they can’t make fun of him shedding tears for this right ?
Report Post »Well, I guess ya never know with the progressives since we already seen them try and take political advantage of the situation – we shall see.
Zorro6821
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:28am“Why does Speaker John Boehner keep referring to this national tragedy as an attack on “one of our own”? First he said, “When you hurt one public servant, you hurt all public servants” and now this…”
JKN..You have it right!! Boenhner proves himself to be just another elitist politician, who cries like a baby every-time he opens his trap. I guess we are not part of “one of our own” How come he does not mention the poor 9 year old as one of our own. Shame on him.
Report Post »250superduty
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:57amMr Boehner, You are a very sincere man and it is refreshing to have you in office.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:22pmAmen to that and I hope he never loses his humility!!!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:21pmMaybe it is the older we get the more we are touched with tenderness about certain things. Memories, good and bad make me weep because they are really touching. Seeing the American flag and hearing our National Anthem in a parade bring me to tears with pride for our Country. Seeing a baby kitten or puppy makes me so happy, I tear up because it reminds me of all abused puppies & kittens people like Mr. Vick felt free to abuse, beat and kill. My desire is to win the big lottery because I know what I would spend every dime on……that’s to have a 1st class shelter for unwanted and abused animals and find decent homes for them. Yeah, I cry often from my heart and have to fight the actual tears welling up in my eyes. I trust Mr. Boehner because I see it’s from his heart.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:54amThis guy really needs to turn off the spigot. He’s undignified and after a while it becomes apparent that he cries on command for an audience, which makes highly insincere.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:59amMakes him highly insincere, I meant to say.
Report Post »COMMIESSUCK
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:02amI could agree that this is not helping him in any way. But…NO proof that he is doing this to get an audience. The guy has humble beginnings and it affects how you see things in life. Most of my friends are hardended US military men and they cry easily, not because they are weak, but strong.
Report Post »be heard
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:03amHe can‘t he’s not inhuman like Nancy. He really does care.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:15am“I could agree that this is not helping him in any way. ”
Correct, it’s not helping him.
He’s like the kid who cries wolf (no pun intended). After he turns on the faucets every time the relative humidity changes, it becomes hard to determine if he’s genuine or not.
“But…NO proof that he is doing this to get an audience. The guy has humble beginnings and it affects how you see things in life. ”
Yeah. You guys are going to have a hey day when it becomes apparent to y’all, as it is known to us Ohioans, that he’s a full fledged RINO.
“Most of my friends are hardended US military men and they cry easily, not because they are weak, but strong.”
This is not another Man Cry debate. It’s a matter of his sincerity.
I guess I‘d have a better time believing in his genuineness if he didn’t cry at every available opportunity. I come from humble blue collar rather poor beginnings, and for the life of me I cannot force myself to tear up everytime somebody doesn’t get a stick of bubble gum in their baseball card packet.
He might be sincere in this instance, or not. Given his idiom, I really have no way of telling.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:15amCriticism of a man for crying at what is truly joyful or truly tragic is, frankly, infantile. Real mean cry, and always have. If you have true emotions you will cry more with age. This does not mean uncontrolable blubbering. The “stiff upper lip” of the Victorian age refers to that very quality that allowed the show of emotion and even tears without losing control altogether. It meant you showed your feelings without wallowing in them and letting them take over. It is the difference between weeping and wailing.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:21amHey Ghost, I think you have to cut him some slack on this one. This is worthy of emotion.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:25am@Islesfordian
You have utterly failed to grasp my point. It‘s all dandy and wonderful that you subscribe to the 1970’s Soft and Fluffy Crying Guy mode of thought, that’s your prerogative. But that wasn’t the thought I was expressing or opposing. Rather, I find repeated displays of tears at so many venues to be a sign of insincerity. If he tears up every time he’s in front of a camera, then the few times he may be sincere become lost in the “white noise” of his previous feigned tears. Get it?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:33am@COMMIESSUCK
Report Post »Crying throughout a speech communicates weakness. That’s the truth. I don’t doubt Boehner is sincere, but as SPEAKER of the House he must come across as a forceful, strong leader. Right now, the commie snakes are slithering in droves into every media outlet in America, including Fox News. Boehner had better get his act together.
kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:46amGhostOfJefferson: “…when it becomes apparent to y’all, as it is known to us Ohioans, that he’s a full fledged RINO.”
Report Post »————–
Well, that would surely make ME cry. Why do you say that?
Republic Under God
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:49amGhost,
What if they are all sincere?
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:06pmThere are only three things in life that should make a man cry.
!. Having forgotten his Viagra before he left for a weekend for two with new new girl friend half your age.
Seeing his children born.
And reading the final settlement on his divorse.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:11pm“What if they are all sincere?”
Yeah, sure. He’s a politician. C’mon.
If his “heart is so tender” that everything drives him to tears (outside of the context of this particular event, mind you), then he probably needs to stop assuming leadership positions. The last thing we need in a “leader” is somebody so wrapped up in emotionalism that they cry whenever the clouds pass by. I don’t mind emotions per se, and again this isn’t about crying or not crying in this case but rather sincerity. Maybe however we’ve been guided long enough by people who work on emotions. We really need to reintroduce calm, reasoned advocates for freedom back into the fray. Constant bursting into emotional tears only provides a wedge for the emotion-driven progressive types to play against us. They work and argue in the realm of the effeminate, and if we adopt their language eventually we’ll adopt their policies, since you simply cannot “argue” emotions.
Don’t mind me I guess. Everything seems to be pathos driven these days. Watch television lately? It’s hard to find a show where “entertainment” is shown as something other than hyper emotional rants, yelling, crying and screaming. I’ve read articles in the local paper (Columbus Dispatch) that notes that the ramping up of constant emotionalism in the public sphere is starting to show in normal life with people thinking that to be taken seriously in even mundane matter, they have to go hyper emotional.
I strongly doubt that he cries “for real” all the time like he seems to for cameras. He’s a politician. He‘s playing on everybody’s expectation of a “soft hearted man”, and it appears to be working.
Me, well, if I could find a “vulcan” who was a perfect advocate for freedom, who could steam roller over opposition with logic and defeat the ever constant emotionalism with quiet reason, I’d be thrilled. Unfortunately it seems to be now that unless you wear your heart on your sleeve and go hyper emotional, you won’t get a hearing. Thanks progressives, we’re all not only talking your language now, we’re defending doing it.
Oh well, slainte mate.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:39pmI suppose you think you are manlier than Jesus?
Crying does not mean losing control. And I hardly think the Speaker cries “all the time”.
This isn’t a 1970s perspective. Ypou migt try reading history. Men throughout time have wept openly at things that merited tears. I credit Freud’s sexualization of life and attriubutions of latent homosexuality to all men with having some part in making modern western men so uptight that they confuse tears with weakness.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 2:02pm@Islesfordian
“I suppose you think you are manlier than Jesus?
I‘ve already stated that this isn’t about crying or not crying. It’s about his sincerity. Boehner cries on cue. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but he’s cried more on television the last few months than I think any of us have seen a man cry on television since Clinton.
“Crying does not mean losing control. And I hardly think the Speaker cries “all the time”.”
No, just when he gets on camera with a wide audience present.
“This isn’t a 1970s perspective. ”
You may not think it is, but it is.
“Ypou migt try reading history.”
I’ve read more history than I think most people have. But thank you for the condescension.
“Men throughout time have wept openly at things that merited tears.”
No kidding. Too bad this had nothing to do with “men crying” and everything to do with a politician using a “tool” of sorts so often that it becomes difficult to discern the honest episodes from the “for the camera” tears. If you’ve bothered to read my posts, you’d have seen that. I’ve restated it for you. Get it yet friend?
“I credit Freud’s sexualization of life and attriubutions of latent homosexuality to all men with having some part in making modern western men so uptight that they confuse tears with weakness.”
Ah, now we get to veiled ad hominem.
You seem to admire and, frankly, work in the realm of emotions. If you’d pause for a second, take a breath, stop thinking that you are waging some holy war, and take note, you‘d see that you’re arguing with something I’m not saying. And getting emotional over it to boot.
Your call friend, and not really my concern.
If you wish to debate further, I’d politely request that you try to refrain from ad hominem, both implied and explicit. Thanks.
Report Post »inferno
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:55pmThe left likes it better when Obama looked “Cool” when he spoke at the rally, er ,memorial service.
Report Post »He also looks“cool” when he is addressing the unemployment rate. I should not be too critical, his ‘coolness” puts so many people back to work. Yes sir, it’s better to appear cool when speaking of the tragedy in Arizona. rather than appear to by suffering due to the suffering of fellow citizens.
Take Bush for instance, he did not look cool at all when addressing the subject of loses by our young men and women in the military. He was so “wimpy”, he cried ! In certain situations only a “fool”can be “cool” !
tobywil2
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:48amTHE ATTACK ON CONGRESSWOMAN GIFFORDS WAS AN EVENT NOT AN ISSUE:
The response of the wannabe tyrants to the Arizona tragedy was entirely predictable, the clear execution of their tactics. The wannabe tyrants vilified the opposition with lies and half-truths, propose new laws and regulations to silence the opposition, disarmed the citizens and saturated the media with the irrelevant to take your minds off the real issues. The assassination attempt was an event, not an issue. How many people are thinking about the repeal of Obama care with the wannabe tyrants saturating the media with the attacks on their opposition, freedom of speech and our right to keep and bear arms?
Chapter 5, “The ”Wannabe Peers”, Their Strategy and Tactics“ of ”21st Century Common Sense” list six strategies is and 22 tactics used by the wannabe tyrants to seize power.
Report Post »http://commonsense21c.com/
BlazingInSC
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:59am@TobyWil2 – You are right on. When my wife and I heard about this shooting and heard reports that the gunman “shouted something”, we both looked at each other and said “I hope it was Allah Ahkbar because if it wasn’t, then the right will be blamed for this and the left will seize the opportunity to go after guns and freedom of speech.”
Isn’t it amazing how transparent the left really is and yet – even when called to the carpet on it (the fact that this guy was all over the political roadmap and has been attributed to leftist ideology by people who knew him best), they continue with the propaganga machine. What’s moer amazing is that there are lemmings out there who continue to follow the leftist path without even one ounce of true understanding.
Report Post »myfamily04
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:04amOK this will be yet another photo opp for NObama and the democRATS
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:15amHow are we going to defeat the commies with this weepy soul at the helm? If this were the freaking radicals, they would be voting against us the day after the shooting. We don’t have to be callous like them, but PLEASE, stop the crying and SET THE TONE to start Obamacare repeal. Talk tough, John, or pretty soon we will all be weeping for our lost country.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:26amI was wondering when this idiot was going to speak and cry.
Polwatcher
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:01pmHow come we never knew about Boehner’s proclivity for crying. This is not good style. He should learn to either control his crying or resign. This is not acceptable behaviour for the leader of the House.
Report Post »lionslayer44
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:17pmat least his tears are real and not the fake tears pelosi tried to give us when talking about the violent rhetoric she had seen before in the 60′s. i just think he cares about his country and his fellow countrymen. lets worry about how he does his job not how many tears he sheds. the current state of the country is enough to break anyones heart who grew up before the 80′s. those of us born in the 60′s and before remember this country when it still had its freedoms mostly in tact. this is the most divided i have ever seen this country. the struggles of the 60‘s made the 70’s one of the best times to grow up most boys were outside playing all day and the girls were making crafts and levi purses. they werent playing video games all day and most of us werent fat lazy punks. we had lives!!!!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:06pmYou anti-crying fools, too bad you don’t know about sincerity. I weep at all things that touch my heart, so I find it quite refreshing to see someone who isn’t ashamed to show his feelings. I could almost hear him say, “By the grace of God, that could have been any one of us.” Are you so uncaring about life? I know exactly how he’s feeling and believe he is for real, & unlike Pelosi breaking up on TV for what seemed to me to be for effect, and not real emotion. She doesn’t care about anyone but herself. I say thumbs up to Boehner. I can know what he really feels & thinks and not wonder if it’s a put on, like so many others who feel they have to make a show of emotion.
Report Post »foolsgold
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:39pmHere are the facts:
O’reilley: “Tiller the Baby Killer” Result: Tiller shot dead by rightwinger
Palin: “Take back the 20 in the crosshairs. Dont retreat, reload.” Result: Gifford shot
Beck: “Dollar is Crap. Revive the Gold Standard!!” – Result: Loghner’s Youtube video saying the SAME crazy thing.
Now there’s a US gun manufacturer who has put “You Lie” on the butt of a semi-automatic. Result: That scares me.
chazman
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 5:10pmI want to see Boehner stop that DAMN crying!! Buck up, son!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:41pmI guess the repeal of Obamacare has been tabled until 2012
Report Post »JKN
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:20amWhy does Speaker John Boehner keep referring to this national tragedy as an attack on “one of our own”? First he said, “When you hurt one public servant, you hurt all public servants” and now this…
Are politicians a different species from the rest of us? Wasn’t this tragedy an attack on one of our own as well? Perhaps Boehner should have said, “When you hurt one American, you hurt all Americans” as we’re all supposed to be in this together…
It’s a shame that it took the attempted assassination of a politician for our politicians to finally realize that safety and security matters… We all deserve to be safe and secure; not just politicians.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:38pmonce again Mr. Boehner is crying..but look at the subject…would be hard not to cry…he seems like a true patriot..wonder if any of our founding fathers were criers…some men are …some men aren’t…
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:12pmI’m with ya, except he’s giving the rats ammo.
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