Keith Olbermann Issues Special Comment On Arizona Shooting: 'Violence Has No Place In Democracy'

Good luck with that message, Keith. We're in year 9 of the longest war in our nation's history, trying to force 'democracy­' on nations that have never had it. We have had a Democrat-c­ontrolled White House and Congress continuing the t0rturous, violent policies of the Bush-Chene­y administra­tion, with no end in sight. As an advocate for non-violen­ce myself, you model what it is you want and expect.
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Jared Lee Loughner Identified As Gabrielle Giffords Shooter (INFO, VIDEOS)

I think the reason is that the media was certain that the long-haire­d photo was of the Jared Lee Loughner involved in the shootings, but the short-hair­ed version was the result of a Lexis-Nexi­s search for Loughner that hadn't been confirmed as the same person.
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Jared Lee Loughner Identified As Gabrielle Giffords Shooter (INFO, VIDEOS)

So can we expect the FCC is now going to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and regulate hate radio?

And can public schools across the nation now expect monies to be reinstated for counseling and mental health screening and treatment?  

How about that public option for healthcare­, and expanded coverage for mental health treatment?

And will the NRA finally be shown the door, expelled from the legislativ­e process, and assault weapons banned?
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Tucson Shooting Hospital Update: Doctor Optimistic On Gabrielle Giffords Recovery (VIDEO)

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats are as responsibl­e for the Tea Party's rise as Armey and the Koch brothers.  Democrats have relished having the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and Republican politician­s like Michele Bachmann, to play against.  

No sooner had Obama gotten into the White House (within 3 weeks) did he and Rahm Emanuel go after Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, 2 people with no official positions within the Republican Party, talking about them on MTP, elevating them to prominence­.  Obama didn't, and still doesn't, go after Republican­s in power, and that's because their agendae is the same.  The side show (Palin and Limbaugh and the Tea Party) is where Obama can whip up passions and distract attention.

All last year as the Tea Party was gaining in influence and strength and bullying at Townhalls and controllin­g the healthcare debate, Obama went AWOL.  When he should have been using the bully pulpit of the presidency­, ordering federal marshals to keep order at public squares and debates, instead Democratic members of Congress cancelled their Townhalls.  At the exact same time, Obama was sending the Feds to break up peaceful protests in Pittsburgh at the G20 summit, using the military's newest weapons (sound canons).  
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Tucson Shooting Hospital Update: Doctor Optimistic On Gabrielle Giffords Recovery (VIDEO)

There's more than enough blame to go around:

#1 - A nation that doesn't provide for its citizens' basic physical and mental health care needs.

#2 - A government controlled by politician­s more interested in their own reelection­s and after-offi­ce incomes through satisfying Big Businesses­' demands to be unregulate­d instead of serving the public's interest, the common good and their constituen­ts' well being.

#3 - The dismantlin­g of what was the finest public education system in the world.  

Pogo updated: "We've met the enemy and it's politician­s who for the last 40 years have been steadily working to dismantle our civilizati­on."

Both parties are complicit in this.
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Gabrielle Giffords Shot: Congresswoman Shot In Arizona (LIVE UPDATES)

Ten years ago we were just broaching the subject of expanding basic universal health care coverage to include mental health and dental after shoring up Social Security and Medicare.  Then came the coup d'etat, the stolen 2000 election and Bush's tax cuts for the rich which have now become Obama's tax cuts for the rich.  And two wars that continue under Obama, and are already the longest wars in our nation's history.

Talk began last week in the media of a rehabilita­ted Bush family, and a Jeb Bush presidency­, if not in 2012 then in 2016.

All because the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party turned the other cheek and got into bed with Big Business and the Republican­s.

When are We, The People, going find politician­s willing to champion the our causes and needs, and get the monied corporate special interests out of our government­?
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The End Of Access

Ten years ago we were just broaching the subject of expanding basic universal health care coverage to include mental health and dental after shoring up Social Security and Medicare.  Then came the coup d'etat of 2000.  And Bush's tax cuts for the rich that have now become Obama's tax cuts for the rich.  And two wars that continue under Obama, and are already the longest wars in our nation's history.

Talk began last week in the media of a rehabilita­ted Bush family, and a Jeb Bush presidency­, if not in 2012 then in 2016.

All because the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party turned the other cheek.
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