Giffords’ Bipartisan Message

[Hot Mega]

(I reserve the right to allow Ulysses to follow up with the full picture essay.)

I wish I could vote for her....maybe I'll get a PO Box in AZ just to vote once for Gabby Giffords....(I'll have to consult our resident constitutional scholar, Will E on the legality of such a move first...:o)

The vote itself was not especially meaningful to the outcome—Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ “Yea” was one of 269, giving the bipartisan debt-ceiling compromise comfortable passage in the House of Representatives. But when Giffords, accompanied by her husband, the former astronaut Mark Kelly, boarded a commercial airliner bound from Houston to Washington on Monday, part of her purpose was to deliver a message.
“She insisted on being there,” said Giffords staffer C.J. Karamargin who, with other Giffords aides, watched from the congresswoman’s Tucson office as his boss cast her first vote on the House floor since being shot in the head last January.

Giffords had voted “Nay” on two earlier debt-ceiling raises, in 2009 and in 2010. But, according to people in the Giffords circle, she had been dismayed by the partisan rancor impeding a solution to the crisis, and determined in the last few days to have her say. “I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics,” a statement released by Giffords’s staff, and attributed to her, said. “I had to be here for this vote.”

:clap: at link....
http://news.yahoo.com/giffords-bipartisan-message-063300572.html

 

[PirateKing]

She looks....good?

I don't blame her for barely mustering a smile in that picture. She's among politicians after all.

 

[Hot Mega]

She looks....good?

I don't blame her for barely mustering a smile in that picture. She's among politicians after all.

Sadly, with half her brains blown out...she probably still has more brains than most of those saps...

 

[Neutron66]

Not to sound cold-hearted, but is she really in any condition to be casting a vote on the House floor (jokes about dumb politicians aside)?

 

[Hot Mega]

Not to sound cold-hearted, but is she really in any condition to be casting a vote on the House floor (jokes about dumb politicians aside)?

Well, presuming her doctors have weighed in on this prior to....:2 cents:

 

[No_Man]

Giffords had voted “Nay” on two earlier debt-ceiling raises, in 2009 and in 2010. But, according to people in the Giffords circle, she had been dismayed by the partisan rancor impeding a solution to the crisis, and determined in the last few days to have her say. “I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics,” a statement released by Giffords’s staff, and attributed to her, said. “I had to be here for this vote.”

So it was "for the good of the American people" for the U.S. to default twice before, but not now? :wtf:

 

[Hot Mega]

So it was "for the good of the American people" for the U.S. to default twice before, but not now? :wtf:

F.Y.I. sometimes when a congressperson votes one way or the other..it could be they're voting for or against some other piece of legislation included in the package.

For example, there are many who voted against this deal in spite of being in favor of raising the debt ceiling as a single issue. In some cases they wanted the debt ceiling to be raised but were voting against cuts to something else (or, the overall package).

Make sense?

Not sure if the votes Giffords cast prior to were on the single issue of the debt ceiling or not but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.

 

[No_Man]

F.Y.I. sometimes when a congressperson votes one way or the other..it could be they're voting for or against some other piece of legislation included in the package.

For example, there are many who voted against this deal in spite of being in favor of raising the debt ceiling as a single issue. In some cases they wanted the debt ceiling to be raised but were voting against cuts to something else (or, the overall package).

Make sense?

Not sure if the votes Giffords cast prior to were on the single issue of the debt ceiling or not but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.

I'm having trouble tracking down the 2010 bill that she voted against, but here's the full text of the 2009 bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:4:./temp/~c111vlSs4x::

No riders. No pork. Just one sentence raising the debt limit to $12.394 trillion. Methinks Ms. Giffords is guilty of some of the same "politics" that she just railed against.

 

[Hot Mega]

I'm having trouble tracking down the 2010 bill that she voted against, but here's the full text of the 2009 bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:4:./temp/~c111vlSs4x::

No riders. No pork. Just one sentence raising the debt limit to $12.394 trillion. Methinks Ms. Giffords is guilty of some of the same "politics" that she just railed against.

Do you know if her opposition could have been because she wanted the amount to be higher or lower, etc.?

 

[mrtrebus]

:ak47:

 

[Ulysses31]

(i reserve the right to allow ulysses to follow up with the full picture essay.)

i wish i could vote for her....maybe i'll get a po box in az just to vote once for gabby giffords....(i'll have to consult our resident constitutional scholar, will e on the legality of such a move first...:o)


:clap: At link....
http://news.yahoo.com/giffords-bipartisan-message-063300572.html

lol I posted this in the other thread without realising you'd started this one, we must be on the same wavelength dude although I think my picture was better as yours didn't capture the true enormity of the event and I also had video footage for the benefit of the Freeones posters that can't read. Also you thread is confusing leaving the reader wondering weather the picture was from before or after she was shot

 

[Hot Mega]

lol I posted this in the other thread without realising you'd started this one, we must be on the same wavelength dude although I think my picture was better as yours didn't capture the true enormity of the event and I also had video footage for the benefit of the Freeones posters that can't read. Also you thread is confusing leaving the reader wondering weather the picture was from before or after she was shot

:dunno: I said before your photo essays rock... I accept that I can't hold a candle to your prowess on this.

re:confusing, maybe so but the title is taken directly, unfiltered from the story title. The reader can decide for him/herself what the story entails.

In the rare case when a title and story literally diverge on point I will post 'according to...' in my post to somewhat clarify the distinction between the title and what I read in the story.

 

[Ulysses31]

:dunno: I said before your photo essays rock... I accept that I can't hold a candle to your prowess on this.

re:confusing, maybe so but the title is taken directly, unfiltered from the story title. The reader can decide for him/herself what the story entails.

In the rare case when a title and story literally diverge on point I will post 'according to...' in my post to somewhat clarify the distinction between the title and what I read in the story.

Relax I'm just busting your chops as you Americans would say and you actually beat me to the story :wtf: :noway: