Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Giffords's husband scolds Boehner for not visiting wounded lawmaker

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU
 
babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 06:46 AM
Original message
Giffords's husband scolds Boehner for not visiting wounded lawmaker
Giffords's husband scolds Boehner for not visiting wounded lawmaker
By Emily Goodin - 11/15/11 08:32 PM ET


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.”

But they didn’t hear from the Speaker.

more...

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/193749-gabrielle-giffords-husband-rips-boehner-in-new-book
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 06:59 AM
Response to Original message
1. He was applying Man-tan and couldn't be bothered...
do these people think they're dealing with 'human beings'? These RW bastards are the near-ultimate in narcissism and cronyism.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 07:08 AM
Response to Original message
2. Boehner is a typical self-centered bastard. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 07:51 AM
Response to Original message
3. Get a bottle of bourbon, then call the Speaker.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
gordianot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 09:24 AM
Response to Original message
4. If Boner visited me in the hospital in recovery I would have a set back.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 01:10 AM
Response to Original message
5. Chester Cheat-o is a walking cheese puff
Absolutely zero substance.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr 16th 2024, 12:56 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » General Discussion Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC