{"id":6873,"date":"2012-01-23T00:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T08:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6873"},"modified":"2012-01-23T00:06:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T08:06:39","slug":"farewell-gabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/farewell-gabby\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Gabby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Gabrielle Giffords is a Blue Dog.&#160; I did not always agree with her votes, but I have to admire her courage, and any Republican would have been far worse.&#160; A little over a year ago, Sarah \u201cBullseye Barbie\u201d Palin, former Republican candidate for Vice President, turned professional liar for <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, targeted Gabby with cross-hairs, and a madman, Jared Lee Loughner, pulled the trigger, killing six and wounding thirteen, including Gabby.&#160; Yesterday Gabby announced her retirement.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"23gabby\" border=\"0\" alt=\"23gabby\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/23gabby.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/>Just over a year after being shot in the head by a crazed constituent at a Congress-on-your-corner event at a Tuscon [sic] super market, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Sunday announced via Facebook that she is resigning her office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have more work to do on my recovery so to do what is best for Arizona I will step down this week,\u201d she said in a video statement posted on Facebook. The two-minute clip was overlaid with images of Giffords before and after the shooting, working with constituents and recovering. \u201cI\u2019m getting better every day,\u201d she said. \u201cMy spirit is high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giffords spent much of this month honoring the victims of the shooting, which wounded 13 and left six dead. The shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is schizophrenic and courts are still trying to decide if he is competent to stand trial. He pleaded not guilty in March\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2012\/01\/22\/gabby-giffords-resigns-from-congress\/?xid=gonewsedit\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VAetv47b-Eg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Farewell Gabby.&#160; Thank you for your service and for your courage. I wish you and yours every happiness.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I certainly hope a Democrat wins Gabby\u2019s seat.&#160; Under the circumstances it would be most unjust for it to fall to the Party of Death.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"GOPDeathFlame\" alt=\"GOPDeathFlame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GOPDeathFlame.gif\" width=\"360\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabrielle Giffords is a Blue Dog.&#160; I did not always agree with her votes, but I have to admire her courage, and any Republican would have been far worse.&#160; A little over a year ago, Sarah \u201cBullseye Barbie\u201d Palin, former Republican candidate for Vice President, turned professional liar for Faux Noise, targeted Gabby with cross-hairs, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/farewell-gabby\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}