AZ-08 Has not had Representation for 311 Days

I think you are viewing this from a slightly different angle than most.

I think they are saying "we refuse to let violence induce political change.

The refusal to be forced to make political change at gunpoint is a stand that I think would resonate with Americans across the country and woe be to the House leadership that attempts to interfere with that choice.

If Giffords is unable to recover fully before the next election, I think it would make sense that her second-in-command, or whomever has been most instrumental in the work that her office has been doing since the injury, goes ahead and runs in her place.

If Giffords is unable to recover fully before the next election, I think it would make sense that her second-in-command, or whomever has been most instrumental in the work that her office has been doing since the injury, goes ahead and runs in her place.

Her office may be doing the secondary tasks that a congressperson does but it is surely not doing it main duties.

Right, and I do agree that's significant. This shouldn't continue indefinitely

district deserves to have someone representing them who can actually do the job she will not stand for the office...... but alas she shows no inclination to do the right thing.

The longest it could go on is 2 years. I doubt the Republic will fall.

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district deserves to have someone representing them who can actually do the job she will not stand for the office...... but alas she shows no inclination to do the right thing.

That is surprising and even more so given the high power husband who should clearly see the same thing.

Mark Kelly, the husband of injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) reportedly slammed House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for not having visited his wife during her recovery – but Boehner’s office says the speaker has been in close contact with Giffords’ staff and met recently with Kelly.

“Considering that she was a member of Congress and he was the highest-ranking member, we thought he’d ask to visit Gabby or at least give a call to see how she was doing,” Kelly writes in a new book, “Gabby - A Story of Courage and Hope,” that he co-authored with Giffords, according to CNN. “Our only contact with him had been a simple get-well card he’d sent a few days after Gabby was injured.”



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68472.html#ixzz1dtCGaGa6

Like the wife he seems to have the mindset of "it is all about ME".

Actually, that is a military mindset. It goes without saying that a superior officer will as a minimum show up bedside for an injuried member of the team. I'm sure Kelly was brought up in that tradition and not the political one that calls for Giffords to "be bowing down to kiss Boehner’s feet ".

Where were you when Ronny Raygun was president and had alzheimers?

As she, her husband, and her eight-year-old daughter were about to enter the Oval Office, Reagan's press secretary, Larry Speakes, told Stahl, "No questions at all, about anything." Stahl was angered by this, but she soon saw why Speakes had issued this instruction. When she and her family entered the office, the 75-year-old Reagan was standing by a Remington sculpture of a rearing horse, and Stahl immediately began to fret:

Reagan was as shriveled as a kumquat. He was so frail, his skin so paper-thin. I could almost see the sunlight through the back of his withered neck…His eyes were coated. Larry introduced us, but he had to shout. Had Reagan turned off his hearing aid?

…Reagan didn't seem to know who I was. He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought. I have to go out on the lawn tonight and tell my countrymen that the president of the United States is a doddering space cadet. My heart began to hammer with the import...I was aware of the delicacy with which I would have to write my script. But I was quite sure of my diagnosis.

“She will forever have a very special place in all of Arizona’s heart for the price she has paid for public service,” Coughlin said.

Coughlin said that Giffords’ ability to serve in Congress is a legitimate question that will have to be raised at some point in an election campaign by her opponent, but it won’t be easy.

“They’ll be booed out of the room initially for doing it,” he said.

Coughlin said that voters over time will begin to examine for themselves her capacity to serve, and he believes that Giffords will have that same litmus test for herself. He spoke with Kelly in recent months and got the impression that Kelly viewed his wife’s return to a meaningful public service role as helpful to her recovery.