Giffords's husband scolds Boehner for not visiting wounded lawmaker

[No Joe]

Source: The Hill

In a new book, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s (D-Ariz.) husband scolds House Speaker John Boehner for failing to visit his wounded wife while she was recovering from injuries sustained in a shooting.

In his and his wife’s new volume, Mark Kelly writes that Boehner (R-Ohio) didn’t take an opportunity to visit Giffords when he was in Houston for a basketball game and added that all they heard from the Speaker after the shooting came in the form of “a simple get-well card.”

Kelly noted that in April, Boehner was in Houston for the NCAA Final Four Tournament while Giffords was at a rehabilitation center there following the Jan. 8 attempt on her life.

“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 Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope. “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://thehill.com/homenews/house/193749-gabrielle-giffords-husband-rips-boehner-in-new-book

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In Boehner's defense, visiting hours at the hospital did conflict with Happy Hour at Houston bars...

[Mz Pip]

1. Boehner is a partisan hack

who has no class.

[opihimoimoi]

3. MOST GOPers lack EMPATHY....have little feelings toward others

[LibDemAlways]

2. Welcome to DU, No Joe. I'm personally surprised

Giffords received even a get well card from Boehner, or, more likely, some staffer in his office who happens to have a smidgen of decency. Boehner himself would have been much more likely to be frequenting a tanning parlor, partying with lobbyists, or stuffing his pockets with corporate money than taking a minute to contact a Dem - regardless of the circumstances.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

4. Boner would only visit if one or more of these things were involved:

Alcohol
Golf
Lobbyists
Cash in mid-sized un-sequential bills

[cyclezealot]

7. Why.. Who cares..

Who the hell would want to see him anyway.. ? Not quite the friendly face who would encourage someone to recover..

[Crowman1979]

5. Of course I don't know if I would want a stumbling drunk speaker of the house near my wife.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. Remember, this is the same Boner who blocked a capitol ceremony for the last WWI vet

Just because WV's 2 senators were Democrats. He is utterly classless.

[DFW]

8. Three things to consider here

Bonehead is a Republican, Gabby was shot with a gun, and she's a Democrat.

To a Republican politician, that gives her affliction the importance of a common cold.

[CreekDog]

9. no smoking

:eyes:

[Angry Dragon]

10. OT .......... I want to know who paid for those basketball tickets

campaign fraud??

[No Joe]

12. Boner's Owners

:evilgrin:

[truthisfreedom]

11. This is good. Boner is in the spotlight for not giving a shit about one of his own congresscritters

and one that was shot by a rabid repuke at that.

She was supposed to die. The fact that she survived and is actually recovering is going to make it very difficult for boner to respond to this.

[Evasporque]

13. He was planning on a funeral...Republicans like funerals....nt

[onehandle]

14. Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords' Husband, Knocks John Boehner In New Memoir

Source: Huffington Post

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband came out swinging against House Speaker John Boehner over his decision not to visit the injured congresswoman.

In the couple's new joint memoir, "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope", Mark Kelly expressed his disappointment in Boehner's efforts to check in on Giffords.

"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, via The Hill. "Our only contact with him had been a simple get-well card he'd sent a few days after Gabby was injured."

While Boehner did not make a formal visit, The Hill adds that he did send a get-well card. Boehner made his views clear on the security situation surrounding the shooting. Back in late January, Boehner told "Fox News Sunday" that increased security might not have been enough to prevent the incident.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/mark-kelly-gabrielle-giffords-john-boehner_n_1095966.html

[barbtries]

15. boehner has no class

and is a disgusting tool. at least gabby didn't have to suffer through a visit from him.

[Capt. America]

16. WTF?!? Lay off the man, he's got beer to drink.

[d_legendary1]

17. Just goes to show you

that sports is more important than life.

[otohara]

18. Thoughtless POS

I am glad he put this in the book -

[AlinPA]

19. Visiting her would have hurt him with the republican base. Republicans in his district

would have raised hell with him.