Gabrielle Giffords Quotes
Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.
She was shot in the head in a mass shooting which killed one of her closest staff members, She made a remarkable recovery and rehabilitation but decided to resign so she could devote her energy to her rehabilitation. After Congress she did that and gave her effort to Americans for Responsible Solutions, an organization to try and reduce mass shootings.
Gabrielle Giffords, U. S. Congresswoman (Democrat, AZ), Comment following a window being smashed at her congressional office in Arizona, January 8, 2011
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The Koke (pronounced “Coke”) Brothers were extreme rightists who were billionaires. They started funding the Tea Party, Their name is pronounced the same as coke for cocaine.
The Tea Party, having had little success at the polls, tended to pick one element of government with most members and friends bashing that element blindly, like the blind-folded children at a Piñata Party. In this case it was the Export Import Bank that enabled over 250,000 jobs last year. The Tea Party which is always complaining about government spending, surprised most observers when they attacked the Export-Import Bank. It is one of the very few government agencies that costs the taxpayer nothing. As a matter of fact, it actually produces a profit for the taxpayer and reduces the deficit. See {640781}.
In 2010 there was a very conservative populist movement that not only took a very right wing position for traditional Republicans, but attracted many of the racists, Nazis, and extreme fringe movements that embarrassed many of the Tea Party members who, because it was a movement and not a disciplined party hierarchy, claimed that they could not be responsible for the hateful signs and slogans of a minority of people who would show up at a Tea Party rally. At the same time, the Tea Party endorsed some candidates who were not very well vetted and were so extreme or quirky (one had been into witchcraft) that orthodox Republicans didn’t want to be associated with them. The moderate Republicans especially were placed in an awkward position as some of the Tea Party candidates unseated incumbent Republicans in primary elections and then some made very weak candidates in the general elections while others were more successful. Palin, already at the populist and quirky wing of the Republican Party warned and threatened the moderates.
His description of the extreme partisanship in England at the time could just as easily describe the American political polarization of 2012—85 years later.
Gabrielle Dee Giffords is an American politician and gun control advocate who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Arizona's 8th congressional district from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned due to a severe brain injury suffered during an assassination attempt. A member of the Democratic Party, Giffords was the third woman in Arizona's history to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
