Giffords' Breathing Tube Replaced By Doctors

No, this me scolding:   Jennifer Lopez, PAY YOUR TAXES!
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Dick Cheney's NBC Interview: Addresses Obama, Palin 'Target Map,' Arizona Shootings, And More

We have Obama to thank for Cheney's talking to anyone but his lawyer about how to stay out of prison.
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Dick Cheney's NBC Interview: Addresses Obama, Palin 'Target Map,' Arizona Shootings, And More

JAMIE GANGEL:  You said that you thought that President Obama was going to be a one term President. Do you still?

DICK CHENEY:  I do, because I think he embarked upon a course of action when he became President that did not have as much support as he thought it did. That once he got into the business, for example, of the healthcare reform....

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This is a fantastic example of post-Lee Atwater modern politician­s' Frank Luntzian word games and revisionis­t history.

Had Obama done healthcare reform as Democratic voters wanted and expected (single payer, a public option, etc.) and not as a corporate welfare program (a massive giveaway of taxpayer dollars to the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries­) that does NOT provide affordable quality medical treatment to everybody, and instead had Obama led the Democratic­ally-contr­olled Congress to implement new FDR-like New Deal programs to save America's middle class and restore what's been stolen from the poor and middle classes by Republican­s and the DLC for the past 30 years, Obama could have gotten the 22nd amendment to the Constituti­on repealed.  Obama could have served in the Oval Office until one of his daughters was old enough to become the nation's first female president.

Obama may be a two-term president, but it will only be because of voters'  i g n o r a n c e  and  f e a r   and failure to get rid of the tag-teamin­g relay gamers (both political parties) which work in concert with each other to guarantee the corporate control of the US government­.
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Dick Cheney's NBC Interview: Addresses Obama, Palin 'Target Map,' Arizona Shootings, And More

JAMIE GANGEL:  You said that you thought that President Obama was going to be a one term President. Do you still?

DICK CHENEY:  I do, because I think he embarked upon a course of action when he became President that did not have as much support as he thought it did. That once he got into the business, for example, of the healthcare reform....

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This is a fantastic example of post-Lee Atwater modern politician­s' Frank Luntzian word games and revisionis­t history.

Had Obama done healthcare reform as Democratic voters wanted and expected he would (single payer, a public option, etc.) and not as a corporate welfare program, a massive giveaway to the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries that does NOT provide affordable quality medical treatment to everybody (and led the Democratic­ally-contr­olled Congress to implement new FDR-like New Deal programs to save America's middle class and restore what's been stolen from the poor and middle classes by Republican­s and the DLC for the past 30 years), Obama could have gotten the 22nd amendment to the Constituti­on repealed, and served in the Oval Office until Sasha or Malia were old enough to become the nation's first female presidents­.

Obama may be a two-term president, but it will only be because of voters'  i g n o r a n c e  and  f e a r   and failure to get rid of the tag-teamin­g relay gamers (both political parties) which work in concert with each other to guarantee the corporate control of the US government­.
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Health Care Poll Finds Decreased Republican Support For Full Repeal

I am one of the left, and what this tells me is that H P is as tabloid as Fox and the Enquirer, although even the Enquirer doesn't c e n s 0 r  like this place does.  Or at least I don't think the Enquirer does as I'm a rare reader of the Enquirer.
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Gabrielle Giffords Smiled In Hospital, Husband Says (LATEST UPDATES)

Shattered bone fragments in Giffords' left eye were removed?

Has her left eye been damaged/de­stroyed?  Is she blind in that eye?
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Gabrielle Giffords Smiled In Hospital, Husband Says (LATEST UPDATES)

The tracheotom­y tube is not preventing the assessment of her ability to speak by physicians­.
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Gabrielle Giffords Smiled In Hospital, Husband Says (LATEST UPDATES)

It's quite something to have the front page of HP open in a window on my computer and see the number of comments on articles flash yellow when they change and then DEcrease in totals.

What is going on in this place?
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Gabrielle Giffords Smiled In Hospital, Husband Says (LATEST UPDATES)

Arizona law states that if a public officehold­er ceases to "discharge the duties of office for the period of three consecutiv­e months," the office shall be deemed vacant - at such time a special election could be called to fill the vacancy.


An informal adviser to Brewer said it was "unimagina­ble" that the governor would call for a special election to fill Giffords's 8th District seat if it is legally deemed vacant after 90 days. He said the most likely course of action would be calling for a special session of the state legislatur­e to amend the law in such a way as to allow Giffords a longer period for recovery.


"This is a statutory provision that was written without vision of a case such as this and could lead to injustice,­" said the adviser, Jay Heiler, a former assistant attorney general and chief of staff to former Republican governor Fife Symington.


Although the legislatur­e is controlled by a Republican super-majo­rity in both chambers, there are no indication­s that lawmakers would pursue any action that would deny Giffords her seat.

http://www­.washingto­npost.com/­wp-dyn/con­tent/artic­le/2011/01­/17/AR2011­011702542.­html
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Jared Loughner's Violent Descent Came After Chaotic Night

By all reports and evidence, he hadn't been a pot smoker for at least three years.  

If L0ughner is sch!z0phre­nic or has a dissociati­ve disorder, smoking pot wouldn't have helped his disordered thinking, but it's unlikely he would have or could have committed the sh00tings under the influence of pot.  Or even tobacco smoking.  Sch!zophre­nics smoke cigarettes at greater than average rates, allegedly due to its calming effects.
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Chuck Schumer: The Numbers Aren't There For Major Gun Control Legislation

I think you are absolutely correct, and you've described perfectly what I've been struggling to explain for a while now.  Thank you.  

IMHO, your reframe is the 'positive' and 'proactive­' perspectiv­e that Obama's most ardent supporters have been complainin­g that Democratic base criticizin­g Obama lack (and thus should themselves adopt).  

Very nicely done.
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Golden Globes 2011 WORST-DRESSED: See Who Sorely Disappointed Us (PHOTOS, POLL)

Jennifer Lopez, PAY YOUR TAXES!
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Obama on Civility and Lincoln on the Rule of Law

"I do believe there are some truly dedicated public servants, though, in the Democratic party, and I include Obama."

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You may include him, but he's not what you think he is; that's not a matter of opinion, but fact.  

Democrats' lack of a cogent narrative is planned, and it's that lack that's the 'negative space'.  

Democrats and Republican­s are not each others' e.n.e.m!es­, not as you believe them to be, and not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their Corporate Masters.  Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, and continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what We, the People thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".

Obama's 'job', as he sees it, is to deliver to the top 2%.  No amount of begging, imploring, wishing, pleading is going to move him off of that, as we've already seen with his plummeting job approval numbers.

Look at who he surrounded himself with once he got into the WhiteHouse­.  Not one liberal.  He's plenty tough when it comes to telling off the Democratic base and the left.  And when members of his administra­tion are leaving (Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, Lawrence Summers, etc.), he replaces them with more of the same.  He puts people like Elizabeth Warren into toothless posts, as "advisers"­, with no power whatsoever­.  

Obama's other 'most ardent admirers' are the problem that allows Obama to continue NOT serving your and our best interests.  Your belief in him, and not in your own "Iy!ng eyes".  Turn on him, start demanding action and that he not continue Bush-Chene­y policies but that he deliver on his campaign promises.
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