From Part 1 - Jon Stewart: "The thing that confuses me about this, with all the terrible strangling of regulation, why have the wealthy done so better than the rest of the country, if the regulations are so bad to the job creators." - "When is it going to trickle down?" - "If we eliminate the Bush Tax Cuts and the Alternative Minimum Tax the Debt will be gone by 2026" - "I feel like my believing that I want government better not government gone doesn't make me a Communist." - "The rich are not burdened in this country."- "I don't understand this idea that any intervention from the government to provide a minor social safety net is a freedom-hating Communist-loving plot." - "Is this when we arm wrestle?"

From Part 2 - Jon Stewart: "There is no question regulation could be done better, but the idea that I hear from one side of the country is that corporations can somehow manage better...I don't want to go back to the 1900s." "You say we may not be a country anymore" - "The sense I get from the book is you believe that the Democrats don't have an interest in helping the poor, they have an interest in creating a dependent underclass, that is purely accepting their largesse in return for votes, you ascribe to them motivations that are incredibly Machiavellian and incredibly pernicious" -

"It seems to me part of what's holding us back from having that discussion is the type of rhetoric that comes through some of these more politicized plans that puts the side that puts the has a disagreement with you on the defensive about not just their motivations, but about their love of this country, and their patriotism, and that is toxin that is that once injected into that pool is very difficult to remove." - "If people understood what made this country great, I think one of the things that made this country great is that nobody got here by themselves." "Capitalism is a wonderful system but there is no question that there is collateral damage...There is a reason why unions arose, and why regulation arose" - "South Carolina vs. Michigan is never going to be the same as China."

By Neda Semnani
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 5, 2012, 5:46 p.m.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords plans to attend a vigil Sunday in honor of the victims and survivors of last year’s Tucson, Ariz., shooting, which claimed six lives and critically injured the Arizona Democrat.

The Jan. 8, 2011, shooting took place shortly after 10 a.m. Arizona time in front of a Safeway where Giffords and her staff were hosting a meet-and-greet with constituents. The shooter, alleged to be 23-year-old Jared Loughner, was targeting the Congresswoman, who was critically injured, but he also shot 18 others that morning. Six died.

Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, will participate in Sunday evening’s ceremony, which will be held on the University of Arizona’s campus mall. Her office did not know whether she is planning to speak at the event.

Other participants slated to attend include Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and Dr. Peter Rhee, chief of the division of trauma, critical care and emergency surgery at the University of Arizona Medical Center. Rhee treated Giffords and the other victims of the shooting.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/gabrielle_giffords_tucson_prepare_for_anniversary_of_shooting-211347-1.html

Six people were killed in the attack; all but Christina-Taylor Green died at the scene of the shooting. The deceased are (in alphabetical order by surname):

Christina-Taylor Green, 9, of Tucson. Green was accompanied to the meeting by neighbor Susan Hileman.[38][112] Because her date of birth was September 11, 2001, she had appeared in the book Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11 (page 41).She was the granddaughter of former Major League Baseball player and manager Dallas Green.
Dorothy "Dot" Morris, 76, a retired secretary from Oro Valley; wife of George, who was wounded.
John Roll, 63, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Arizona, named to the federal bench by President George H. W. Bush in 1991.
Phyllis Schneck, 79, homemaker from Tucson.
Dorwan Stoddard, 76, retired construction worker, died from a gunshot wound to the head; his wife Mavy was wounded.
Gabriel "Gabe" Zimmerman, 30, community outreach director for Giffords, and a member of Giffords' staff since 2006. Mr. Zimmerman was the first Congressional staffer killed in the line of duty.

In addition to the six dead, thirteen other people were wounded by gunshot in the attack, while a fourteenth person was injured, but not by gunshot. Gabrielle Giffords and two other members of her staff were among the surviving gunshot victims.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting#Victims

"Tucson Shooting: Couple who escaped the bullets can't escape the horrible memories of that day"

Roger says his wife helps him through these rough spots, whispering to soothe frustrations, "She has this mantra: 'Act like Gabby would want you to act,' " he says. "It helps."

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2011/12/14/20111214tucson-shootings-couple-who-escaped-bullets-cant-escape-horrible-memories.html#ixzz1idPx7TSH

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002119422