It is so good to see her up and around. The hard work she has put in really shows. Her sheer determination to overcome these grievous wounds is amazing to say the least. I wish her a speedy and full recovery. She is truly remarkable.

I feel bad that she will have to live with the cloud hanging over the whole massacre. Before the blood was even cleaned off the parking lot, a group of liberal journalists decided to blame conservatives, and their rhetoric, of being the cause of this tragedy. They named specifically named Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. While these two are very conservative, common sense and logic tells you they, in no way, pulled the trigger. Yet, this was the false narrative created by the lapdog media.

It is a shame that when we all should be honoring those who died in this tragedy, the insanely liberal journalists who crafted the false narrative and echoed it, shame Giffords and those who died. To add salt on her wounds, and those of the other victims, these journalists have not corrected the record for the biased lie.

Once they realized they jumped the shark and stepped in it. it just withered on the vine, with not so much as a weak “Never Mind”. I hope Rep. Giffords becomes aware of the malfeasance, and demands an apology on behalf of the American people. Frankly, such irresponsible actions from the media deserves a hard look to see if these people should be on the air at all.

While free speech includes making up lies to spread freely. Should people with television audiences be allowed to do this?

I have given many suggestions, you send them to president@whitehouse.gov, your senators and representatives as I have done.

Here is what I sent to the above.

1. adopt a fair tax that is below 15-18% that includes all income – no loop holes except for minimum income that is exempt.
2. adopt the VAT, refundable to those who make below some amount
3. Stop spending more than we have, government does great adjusting up, create the methods for adjusting down when needed.
4. Do a top down audit of all federal expenditures and eliminate obsolete and redundant programs.
5. Make social security and medicare their own funds. Do not co-mingle with the general fund, people live and work longer so adjust the age up.
6. Make representatives have four year terms, then limit them to three terms. Rotate them into two classes.
7. Make senators have limits of two terms.
8. Make federal judges (not SCOTUS) have 15-20 year tenure, not life time with only one appointment allowed, and make maximum age requirements.
9. Make SCOTUS justices have 10-15 year terms, limit to two, and make maximum age restriction.
10. If we go to war, by law, we should have to have a war tax.

In response to:

A downgrade’s GOP fingerprints

By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

Let’s see, Mr Robinson, you seem to be using emotion over fact. But I knew which way you would swing on this.
How is it that the GOP almost forced a default when they passed legislation that raised the debt ceiling and worked to cap the out of control spending weeks ahead of the ‘deadline’? We could have knocked 5.5 trillion of the long term debt.

Democrats chose to ignore this and push us to the brink. Then the GOP made another plan, this one did not include enough debt reduction for S&P, but it had too much for Democrats, SO again, they pushed again and demagogued issues that were pure twaddle, but had great emotional appeal. The only deal they would agree to did not include enough long term debt reduction.
How exactly did the GOP make Democrats chose to do what they did?
Who kept talking about how social security was not going to get paid, and medicare or the military or our debt service? The President. He drew a line in the sand and lied about the nature of both packages that passed the House. You want to blame the GOP for acting. You call the idea of reducing our debt/deficits cutting spending, and balancing the budget extreme, yet you endorse those who fail to act.
It is truly unbelievable that Senate Democratic intransigence is being lauded by Robinson.
Who held who hostage? There was only one credible plan, cut, cap, and balance. It would have reduced the long term debt by 5.5 trillion. Once Democrats refused this legislation, they held us all hostage while attacking relentlessly. Good thing the lapdog media has their back, huh? Then they would only agree to a package that guaranteed a downgrade, yet liberal attack dogs immediately blamed the GOP for the inaction in the Senate and intransigence in the White House. Wow, it’s like living in bizarro world.
To believe the GOP is to blame, you have to believe there is no waste in all the increased spending authorized since Jan 2009, You have to believe that balancing the budget and attempting to gain control of an out of control government is extreme. You have to believe that increasing our unsustainable debt is not a problem. You have to believe that Democratic intransigence to cause the downgrade was justified since we could never go back to 2008 spending levels. How did we ever get by way back then, huh?
This is why before the downgrade, liberals already were blaming the GOP for making the Democrats demagogue the issue. The moment we were downgraded, known since we did not meet S&P goals, Democrats already had their plan to blame the GOP.
One funny thing, is it a coincidence that the 400 billion annually Democrats have been squawking about. That is the amount estimated of government revenues if we increase tax rates on the evil rich, you know, millionaires and billionaires who make more than 250K, but leave the current rate for those under 250K.
So 400 billion miraculously adds up to 4 trillion over 10 years. The exact amount S&P asked us to reduce our debt. Hmm………