Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ-8) officially resigned from the U.S. Congress today, in the wake of her January 8, 2011 shooting during a “Congress on your Corner” event in Tuscon, Arizona. She appeared in the well of the House this morning, along with her friend Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida, who read her resignation speech though tears. Other colleagues, including Republican Rep. Jeff Flake, also from Arizona, stood at her side and she was thanked with a warm round of applause.
In the letter, as read by Wasserman-Schultz, Giffords vowed: “I will recover and will return, and we will work together again, for Arizona and for all Americans”…
What a senseless chapter. But no matter her politics, and whether you disagreed with them or not, Giffords spirit ought to be seen as extraordinarily inspirational to all of us. Sadly, thanks to a U.S. Congress mired in politics, none of the simple measures that could have been passed to help prevent similar tragedies in the future have been carried out in the year since Giffords shooting and the deaths of six others on that fateful day just over one year ago.
apparantly, some right-wingers didn’t learn anything over the past year since this tragic event….
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/25/cross-hair-stickers-placed-outside-missouri-lawmakers-offices/
She is a great person, so I am glad they focused on the decency side of life with the verbal honors bestowed upon her.
But lets not forget that she is to be remembered too, as evidence of the negative effects of the ongoing evolution from left to right in our society.
The Secret Service should have put the smackdown on brewer…..she got too close, what if she had been armed!?
This kind of outright hostility from the extreme right-wingers in the repubulican party should not be tolerated! Did you see the new crosshair stickers some radical rightie is putting on democrats? Did you forget Gabby Gifford’s horrific attack just a year ago?
I say tell the Secret Service to protect their charge, and keep enemies, both foreign AND domestic at more than ‘arms length’ from our Commander-In-Chief.
think these yazhoo’s justify my argument perfectly.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46159633/ns/us_news-life/
Now we are seeing the real demeanor behind the right-wing extremist walker supporters.
http://crooksandliars.com/kenneth-quinnell/facebook-page-threat-or-warning#comments
Please! Get your head out of your…left-right paradigm. The guy who shot Gifford was deranged. And bad behavior has been reported from BOTH camps.
We need to get beyond the party politics and see the big picture, work together on the things that matter to all of us or our wonderful country is going to go down the drain.