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The Spectacle Blog
Gabrielle Giffords has announced she will resign her Congressional seat later this week.
Before her resignation takes effect, Giffords plans to travel to Washington to attend President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
More than a year has passed since she was shot in the head by Jared Loughner, whose madness resulted in the deaths of six people. Although Giffords recovery has progressed, it has not progressed to a point where she felt she could stand for re-election. When I wrote about did interview Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly did with Diane Sawyer last November, I noted that serving in Congress is a challenge for the healthiest amongst us. Many who commented on that blog post indicated it would be both in her best interests and those of her constituents if she were to step down. For her part, Giffords hopes to return to public service in the future. Whether that public service will take the form of elected office remains to be seen.
Whatever she chooses to do, I wish Gabby Giffords well in her continued recovery.
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RJ| 1.22.12 @ 5:51PM
I wish her well too. However, I am disgusted at how the Democrats and the media used her tragedy for partisan political purposes. It reminded me of the Paul Wellstone political pep rally memorial service. The media also frequently overlooked the other victims, both injured and dead.
Stephanie | 1.22.12 @ 5:59PM
I was surprised to hear this news. Most of them are so power hungry that they won't resign under any circumstances. Look at Byrd. Half the Congress is suffering from dementia and keep sticking around. We have a state assembly member in CA who just got busted for felony shoplifting (guess what party). Mary Hayashi. Still won't resign and doesn't think she did anything seriously wrong.
Frog in Fatigues| 1.22.12 @ 6:51PM
Outstanding Lady. And a lesson in courage and perseverance. The dems didn't deserve her, anyway.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 1.22.12 @ 7:45PM
I don’t get the chance to say this very often about a Democrat, because the situation rarely ever presents itself, but Gabrielle Giffords is a class-act!! She’s doing the right thing!! Maybe one day in future she can make her comeback, but right now, she’s not up to the standard of being an active member of Congress, she’s almost childlike, which is hardly a Democratic Party trait. Now don’t get me wrong, she’s better than 95% of the Democrats in Congress today, because at least she’s not “evil” to the core as they are, like Maxin Waters, Barney Franks, Harry “the fag” Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Shultzezbugerhiemer (or whatever her friggin' name is?), and so many others that I could list here, but I don’t have the time, nor do I have enough room to list them all tonight, plus this sentence has got to come to an end sometime. Gabby’s just lucky to be alive!! And maybe, through the Grace of God in Heaven above, she’ll make a full recovery some day!! But that’s not today!! For right now, she’s not up to doing the job, and she’s doing the right thing by resigning!! I wish her well!!
spike59| 1.23.12 @ 4:51PM
childlike, sadly, IS a Democrat Party trait; the average emotional age of Party leadership is about 12
Drek| 1.22.12 @ 8:30PM
She should have resigned quite some time ago, now hadn't she?
Dixie Pixie| 1.22.12 @ 8:30PM
I really hate to step on the MSM favorite meme of “Courage and Triumph over Medical Adversity”.
I have seen no proof that Congresswoman Giffords is in any way capable of serving in any public capacity at all.
Good Lord, Giffords had more than 25% of her brain blown away.
She is incredibly lucky to be a live.
Think about it, if Congress only requires less than 75% of your brain to be functional, then 75% divided by the normal IQ of 100% equals an IQ of 75 or less.
That fact alone would explain a lot about Congress but would not meet the criteria that a member of Congress represent her district.
If the Congress was smart, they would vote Congresswoman Giffords a lifetime medical pension, a glorious sendoff and have the state send another representative in her place.
Al Adab| 1.23.12 @ 10:44AM
Is there not a proceedure through which Congressionzl seats can be declared vacant when the elected Rep is unable to fulfill the duties of the office? While we all wish Giffords well, she should have vacated the seat months ago. That district has been unrepresented for a year.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.22.12 @ 8:35PM
If you will note the media does not say much about Loughner or Nidal Hassan. Loughner is a left wing nut and Nidal Hassan is a terrorist who served in the armed forces.
Maxwell| 1.23.12 @ 7:50AM
Please don't confuse people with the facts, it screws up their mind.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.23.12 @ 9:14AM
Sorry.
bill| 1.22.12 @ 10:04PM
Oh! Thanks Haven!
All American American| 1.23.12 @ 9:30AM
I guess we can excuse her vote to raise the debt limit then? Cuz she's so "courageous?"
Please.
She shouda resigned or been replaced a looooong time ago. Did she need this year to qualify for her Congressional pension? Is that why they let her hang around?
Occam's Tool| 1.23.12 @ 10:32AM
I wish she had stayed in Congress. One more Dem vote not present.
Obviously, I hope she recovers well, on a personal note.
All American American| 1.23.12 @ 1:28PM
Oh crap she's gonna be at the usurper's state of the union? I'm sure that will be good for a few sympathy standing o's.
Pathetic.
spike59| 1.23.12 @ 4:49PM
good for her...nice to see her taking care of her recovery and leaving behind the role of 'eternal victicrat' that Debbie Wasserderp-Skank had laid out for her
All American American| 1.23.12 @ 5:02PM
Just did some checking online. Earlier I theorized that maybe she hung on in order to serve enough time to qualify for a Congressional pension. Weeeeellllllll.....
Congresscritters need to serve a minimum of 5 yeas to qualify for a pension. Guess when the victim-hero Gabby Giffords began serving? 2007--amazing right? Sooooo, I was right, she DID need to hang around until 2012 to get her full 5 years in to qualify for her pension.
So, is she still "courageous?"
Bwahahahahahaha! All we need to do is run out a victim-hero and "conservatives" get all squishy. Sad.