Progressives love victim-hood. They thrive on it and manipulate people who have had tragic incidents in their life. Whether it is Carolyn McCarthy using her husband’s death on the LIRR back in 94 to win a House seat in Long Island, NY or Charles Johnson’s use of the Norway shooting as some form of vindication against the anti-Jihad, the left loves tragedy.
In the latest stunt, Progressives of both parties brought back Gabby Giffords (D-Arizona) to vote on the debt ceiling increase. She was shot in the head and was still in recovery. However, the Progressive bi-partisan elite used her as a prop to shame other members into voting for this bill. They even let Gabby Gifford get the final vote as a symbol of bi-partisanship.
Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona made a surprise return to Washington Monday to vote in favor of an agreement to raise the debt limit.
”The #Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight,” she said in a Tweet.
Lawmakers offered Giffords a standing ovation on the House floor when she showed up for the vote. After it was completed, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Giffords’ name inspires the love and admiration of Americans and called the lawmaker the “personification of courage.”
“Thank you, Gabby,” Pelosi added. Giffords, her hair short, waved and thanked members as they applauded the sentiment.
Read teh rest: Gabrielle Giffords votes for debt limit deal
This was a disgusting stunt. Speaker John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Hussein Obama clearly coordinated this. Gabby Giffords was used as a political prop to show some bi-partisan unity. Clearly she hasn’t fully recovered, but this doesn’t matter to our elites. They have no shame and will use any tragedy to their advantage.
That’s the Progressive way!
Tags: Debt Ceiling, Debt Crisis, Gabby Giffords, Nancy Pelosi, Propaganda, Speaker John
They are shameless.
@ Speranza:
Absolutely. The Democrats are a party without shame. With no principals except an overweening lust for power for the sake of power. That they are restrained (to the extent they are restrained) by the Constitution is the only thing that has spared us dictatorship before now.
we were supposed to tone down the rhetoric after her getting shot…
well, that really means just tone it down on the right because now, the tea party and fiscons are ‘terrorists’.
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2011/08/01/rep-mike-doyle-d-pa-says-you-are-terrorists/
tea party terrorist is the new marching order on the left…the latest mantra. way to tone it down dems!
@ Iron Fist:
@ Speranza:
This was a low and disgusting act. Boehner was in on it as well.
@ coldwarrior:
The RINOs are going along with it.
They hauled out
a frail and fragile woman who wasn’t even able to speak. Just wave and barely stand up. She almost fell once. I’m not sure she even knows what exactly is going on.
Bringing her out is a reminder of how violent the Tea Party is, since the left and mfm attacked and blamed us for the horrible shooting spree.
She was shamefully used as a pawn.
The left will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.
Michelle Bachmann’s migraines supposedly make her unfit to serve in public office, but a Democrat congresswoman’s severe brain damage makes her a shoo-in for the Senate. Sick, Sad World.
@ V the K:
This is a very sick spectable.
It was disgusting cynical use of a person’s tradgedy, but I have come to expect no less from our leadership.
V the K wrote:
too bad NO ONE on the right will have the balls to say that to a reporter.
(i would)
coldwarrior wrote:
That’s why all the reporters won’t play with you…
@ Iron Fist:
The whole game is rigged. No one questioned why they brought Giffords for this vote.
Rodan wrote:
Sure a lot of people questioned it.
V the K wrote:
Great observation.
chickadee wrote:
Yes very well put
It was sad to see her standing there, confused and unstable on her feet.
I wonder if they even checked with her doctor to see if it was safe to haul her out as a prop.
Thanks for the love, y’all. I sometimes forget that I am liked.
@ Nevergiveup:
It’s disgusting. It reminded me of how they used Carolyn MCarthy after her husabands death. They love tragedies.
V the K wrote:
anyone wanna do this drywall and paint prep work for me???
i’ll make steaks and provide beer!
@ coldwarrior:
guess not…
bbl…
coldwarrior wrote:
As much as I love steak and beer, there is not much I like less than drywall prep work
@ coldwarrior:
Steaks??? On TACO TUESDAY??
Sacrilege!
@ Carolina Girl:
Steak taco? Beats the tuna…
I for one would like to know how Giffords’ doctors felt about this stunt. I mean, I could almost see it if it was like the Health Care (shudder) vote – where they needed every single vote. But this? Wasn’t this supposed to pass the house with a decent margin?
And this is for Nancy Pelosi, who I am sure hatched this idea. Yes, she has incredible courage, Madam Ex-Speaker. I’m surprised a cruel useless bitch like you can recognize it.
Jonah Goldberg has had it with the Left’s hypocracy over violent rhetoric. Read it or he’ll kill ya…
Iron Fist wrote:
I have never quite understood the hubbub over the fish or shrimp taco. Especially the shrimp taco.
@ Carolina Girl:
Obama had a hand it as well. Gabby has become a Saint to the Left. I feel this was one of the lowest acts I have ever seen. Clearly she’s disoriented and not in control of her facilities. It really was a disgusting act.
They are preping her for a Senate run.
@ Iron Fist:
Hey, you should do a thread on it tonight when you get home. We’ll post it tommorow morning!
@ Rodan:
I’ll try to. It is a righteous rant.
…cant seem to get started…
(procrastination-boredom prevention mode is eminent)
Well, the Senate passed the Debt Deal. There’s $2+ trillion we’ll never see again…
@ Iron Fist:
They’ve been pulling that stuff for the past two weeks. As I commented over at Weasel Zippers – I must have missed the chastising by the Media, Obama and Biden when the union thugs and absent legislators literally held the state of Wisconsin hostage earlier this year.
Probably because I was too busy reading their letters of support.
Iron Fist wrote:
The drunken sailors may now celebrate the extension of their bar tab.
V the K wrote:
I always pay my own bar tab and usually me and the other medical officer pay the whole units bar tab.
“select committee” — code for bend over and spread em
@ Rodan:
I would imagine the heartless bastards of the commie left haven’t bothered to check with her medical professionals as to whether or not it’s even advisable for her to mount a campaign to keep her seat in the House, have they? Much less a campaign for statewide office.
Which probably means she’ll be groomed to take Kyl’s seat, since McCain doesn’t have to run again until 2014. Unless Kyl’s up in 2012, in which case they may have a problem. Sure, Ms. Giffords is to be given complete credit and “brava” for her fortitude, but there are serious problems in this country right now and Arizona should not waste one of its Senate seats so that they can have the warm and fuzzies for two days after the general election.
the junkies voted themselves some more smack.
(goes back to work
)
@ Carolina Girl:
Kyl has announced he’s not running for re-election in 2012. They are setting up Gabby for that seat regardless of her medical condition. The Left loves using tragedy depite the human costs.
@ Iron Fist:
I have another Obama Boom story in headlines.
@ Rodan:
You gotta typo in the Kelsey for governor headline, intered should read interested?
The thief-n-chief is reading the prompter now.
@ Carolina Girl:
It looks like she’s running for re-election in her Hosue district.
Gabrielle Giffords Still Weighing 2012 Bid
@ Nevergiveup:
To be honest, I never cared for the “drunken sailors” metaphor to describe Congress; drunken sailors spend their own money.
Congress is more like a crackwhore who rolled her john, stole his credit cards, and used them to buy more crack.
@ Prebanned:
Fixed it!
Oops, “Doug Lamborn, Colorado Congressman, Refers To Obama Dealings As Being Stuck To A ‘Tar Baby‘”
@ Rodan:
@ V the K:
Every member of congress should be audited by the IRS twice a year.
Shameless and sad. Here in AZ the local news, feed by her staff announced her every move, which is OK as long as they are not perpetrating a false hope to keep their jobs. Shameless? don’t forget Michael J. Fox and the embryonic stem cell adds.
@ Rodan:
Another Obama Boom?! Damn, I have got to stop blinking – I keep missing it!
PSE&G working on the gas line outside/inside my office. If I’m lucky they’ll burn my building down
He is setting up another push for a stimulus.
Money for votes from his cronies, thugs, unions, and a few crumbs for his welfare bums.
This is why I don’t even comment all that much anymore.
The majority of the left have no capacity for simple humanity. Every move is calculated, despite how low, with some expectation of gain.
Their depravity knows no bounds. There are no bounds with them if it fits their means to an end.
What do you say? What does it change? They are the scum of the earth, and are ready to exploit any situation, scenario, or individual for political points.
The worst part, is so many people fall for it.
@ WrathofG-d:
Tar baby doesn’t do anything for me. It is a trap designed by brer Fox to trap brer Rabbit.
Is there a place where I can find all the words people aren’t supposed to use and the percent racist they make you if you do use them?
Carolina Girl wrote:
Oh, that’s our problem.
lol
asshole punk boy mike doyle (d-pa) got hammered this morning on the local media.
angry folks were in his office today, his phones were clogged with calls. email was avalanched. so this is how punk-assed-bitch-boy apologizes:
@ Formercorpsman:
It is extremely disheartening.
Everything they do is meant to demoralize us.
And what makes it more frustrating is that these fcks are in the minority. . .
They are holding the majority of America hostage with their aggressive domineering tactics.
It is ridiculous and should not be happening.
They are like the muzz, they will keep going until they are stopped.
Iron Fist wrote:
FTFY!
Nevergiveup wrote:
Sounds very Soviet to me!
@ Carolina Girl:
The media hasn’t give up Hope!
@ Formercorpsman:
That really is true, you are wasting your time arguing with a true dem.
We are doomed
Rodan wrote:
You gotta typo there Hope should be Hype.
Wait, I guess it works either way.
@ chickadee:
Exactly. I’m not going off of a cliff, but what kills me most in all of this, are the bastards we elect to actually be the bulkhead against them only end up locking arms with them joining in the kumbaya chorus.
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@ doriangrey:
Well, looks as if the market has voted… S&P 500 1266? That’s not good…
Mike C. wrote:
More like the market is voting no confidence.
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@ doriangrey:
Cue whoever Hank Paulsen’s heir is running around screaming that they need a bazillion dollar check from the Fed or the sky will fall.
@ doriangrey:
Bernanke is hinting at QE3.
New Thread.
Bumr50 wrote:
News flash… The sky has already fallen and landed like Mount Everest on everyone who isn’t a federal employe or parasite.
Rodan wrote:
Really, Marxism will work this time because this time the right people are instituting it. Please ignore the brutal fact that the last 75 times Marxism has been tried it destroyed the nations that tried to make it work. (cause, well, they obviously weren’t the right people to make it work)
OT:
I appologize for going off topic, and discussing something we already probably know, but I found this very interesting. AOL/HuffPo has a slideshow of “International Recognition: Controversies Around The Globe”
The first slide is of Nagorno-Karabkh.
Never heard of them? Me neither, until now. Now this silence is quite interesting actually. Here is why: The present conflict was heightened at the end of WW1, and worsened as recently as the 1980s and 1990s. But here is the unfortunate kicker: “During the fighting, …between 20,000 and 30,000 people are estimated to have lost their lives” while “one million fled their homes“. Holy moley! approx 30,000 people were killed, and 1 million displaced and the World & UN are silent about it?
For the record, and I bet you all knew where this was going, the total deaths on all sides of the Arab-Israel Conflict (and its endless resolutions from the UN, etc.) from 1948-2009, according to Wiki is 9,481. (the figures are from BTselem so…. they are probably high).
Now back to the Nagorno-Karabkh. Main religion seems to be Christian.
The next region on the list is “Republic of Abkhazia“.
This conflict is also the result of the ending of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. During the fighting ALL, “200,000–240,000″ ethnic Georgians were ethnically cleansed. Nope? Never heard of this one either? As far as I can tell, the Abkahzia people don’t have observer status at the UN.
Religion? Christian.
The next is: Sahrabi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)
They claim sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. SADR was proclaimed by the Polisario Front on February 27, 1976, and is in conflict with Morocco. Thus, despite their being occupied by a foreign entity, and all that comes with it Moroccan territorial integrity, apparently meaning including Western Sahara, is explicitly recognized by the Arab League. Morocco is, of course, Muslim. The UN does not recognize the SADR. Approx: 22,000 killed in conflict with over 80,000 displaced. (help verifying?)
The SADR seem to be Muslim, and you just might recognize their flag.
The next is Taiwan. Religion: mostly Buddhist. Deaths due to conflict are hard to tie down (Help anyone?) but it seems to be approximately 3-6 million.
Also on the list are the Republic of Kosovo – nearly all Albanian’s were ethnically cleansed/ Muslim state created? Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, “Palestine” (see above), Republic of South Ossetia – approx: 11,012 dead, and 39,000 displaced.
Again, For the record, and I bet you all knew where this was going, the total deaths on all sides of the Arab-Israel Conflict (and its endless resolutions from the UN, etc.) from 1948-2009, according to Wiki is 9,481. (the figures are from BTselem so…. they are probably high).
So what’s the deal?
The Dems won this round so the economy is going to be outrageously bad when Obama runs for president again next November?
This is going to be a brutal year.
Hopefully this will end Obama’s reign, though.
@ Bumr50:
That would be the tax cheat known as Little Timmy Geithner.
The Dems are absolutely swearing to do those job-killing tax increases.
They say that everyone needs to share the pain while they bring on more pain for everyone.
Aren’t they just so sweet.
Puke!
doriangrey wrote:
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2011/08/01/teh-double-dip-recession-is-here/
Oh hell, Reid’s already advising that failing to raise taxes in December will trip the “trigger.” Oh, and no fiscal conservatives, apparently, will get to serve on the Super Committee.
Keep it comin’ Democrats. You want to fix the tax code? Here it is. Fair tax. 5% on non food consumer purchases. Period. That way, that 49% of the populace that is soooo eager to impose more taxes on the other 51% would finally get some “skin in the game” – which is SO important to Jerk the Wonder Prez.
Oh, and Gold hit a new high and the Franc is surging. Good job, asshats.
@ doriangrey:
It’s madness. When Putin is corerct about our economy, that should be a hint!
@ Eliana:
That’s my take. The Democrats might have a phrric victory in all of this.
High Gold price = weak obama = weak economy = lack of confidence.
The only path to a healthy country is to elect more smart wise tea party candidates.
Any goper or dem that considers themselves rich and elite should be unelected.
@ 53 Formercorpsman: My mom voted for Obama last time because she wanted the wars to end. They didn’t. She will vote for Obama again this time because the GoP is threatening her medicaid and Social Security.
She’s an actual person who worked hard all her life, has some health problems now and surives on about $600 a month in social security and medicaid. She still has to make tough choices. Like living with a relative and sometimes paying most of her 600 a month for drugs. Even though she is on medicaid. Any small cut in assistance to her puts a real hardship on her.
The Gop needs to reform instead of cut. And reform in a way that the message to my mom is that she will get more help not less. They should be targeting programs people don’t understand well. They should be extending Federal employee benefits to start later and be less in $$$.
And they need to Trump the media. He showed them how to do it. Put Obama reeling and keep him spinning.
OCri$i$
It’s her husband that should bear the shame.
He obviously ok’d this stunt. SHAME ON HIM!
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