Dem Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot In Arizona

Daniel Hernandez, 20-Year-Old Intern, Hailed For Helping Gabrielle Giffords After Shooting
A 20-year-old intern is being hailed as a hero for his actions following Saturday's brutal shooting in Arizona. Daniel Hernandez had been an intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for just five days when a gunman opened fire in Tucson, killing six and putting the Arizona congresswoman in critical condition, AZCentral reports. According to AZCentral, the University of Arizona junior says he ran towards the gunshots as soon as he heard them. "I don't even know if the gunfire had stopped," he says. H...

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in the head
(01-09) 04:00 PST Tucson -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire outside a Grocery Store during a meeting with voters, killing a Federal Judge and five others in an attempted Assassination that rattled the country and left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Giffords was the target of a gunman whom he described as mentally unstable and possibly act...

VIDEO: Bachmann: Nothing is on the Table, Nothing is off the Table
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. says “nothing is on the table, nothing is off the table,” when it comes to talk of a 2012 presidential run. Speculation about a possible run surfaced with word of Bachmann’s upcoming trip to Iowa. Bachmann told Fox News on Saturday, “I think we need to spend the next year making the case why a Second Term for Barack Obama would be bad for the country, and why we need to have a courageous conservative – a bold, constitutional ...

Gabrielle Giffords Medical Update: Docs 'Encouraged'
Dr. G. Michael Lemole, Jr., left, speaks about the condition of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., as Dr. Peter Rhee looks on, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. The University Medical Center-Arizona neurosurgeon who operated on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Sunday he was "cautiously optimistic" about her status following surgery to manage a bullet wound to her brain resulting from a Mass Shooting in Tucson in which six people were killed. Providing the greatest amount of detail released yet about the con...

Doctors Talking Positively about Rep. Giffords Chances of Survival Video Report 1/9/11
Here is a video report on the shooting yesterday in Tucson, Arizona of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 17 other people. It gives a recap of what happened, and says doctors are “talking positively” about Giffords’ “chances of survival” following emergency surgery. My prayers go out for her and the others wounded in this attack, and for the families of those who were killed. I know many of you are doing the same. ...

Congresswoman fights for life after shooting
Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was fighting for her life on Sunday following a shooting rampage that left at least six people, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge dead. Ms Giffords, a 40-year-old member of the House of Representatives who first took office in 2007, was shot in the head at close range while attending a public event called “Congress on your Corner”, at a Supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. EDITOR’S CHOICE Congresswoman fights for life a

Shot congresswoman able to communicate
A congresswoman shot in the head in an Assassination attempt that killed six others is able to respond to doctors' commands, a surgeon said tonight. Dr Michael Lemole, who is treating 40-year-old Gabrielle Giffords at the University Medical Centre in Tucson, Arizona, told a news conference that she is able to communicate. Dr Lemole said the gunshot went through the left side of her head and that surgeons worked to reduce pressure from swelling in the brain by removing bone fragments. ...

An Democratic Congresswoman is Shot in Arizona
Arizona Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, a moderate Democrat who stirred the wrath of right-wingers with her vote for Health Care reform but was narrowly reelected in November, was shot by a gunman Saturday in what looks to have been as Assassination attempt at a community event in Tucson. A target of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's wrath during the 2010 campaign, Giffords was one of the twenty House members whose district was marked with a target in a SarahPAC campaign message that had Pali...

Arizona Male Who Shot Congresswoman Had Radical Links
Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition after a gunman shot her in the head, as well as more than a dozen others, including six dead. Authorities note that Jared Loughner had been reading up on White Power and other Hate Group movements prior to the attack. In spite of that, 22-year-old Jared Loughner had largely flown under the radar of Law Enforcement, chiefly because of the lack of direct activity, as noted by Fox News. The Group, American Renaissance, would have target

You Say Sarah Palin's Just Not Extreme Enough? How About Michele Bachmann for President?
It is no secret that the most enthusiastic encouragement of a presidential bid by Sarah Palin comes from the Obama White House. No Republican with her level of name recognition polls worse than Palin in a head-to-head race with the Democratic president. Indeed, fresh surveys by Public Policy Polling suggest that in much of the country Palin "would would lose by the biggest margin of any Republican Presidential nominee since Barry Goldwater." This, of course, only makes Palin more appealing to th...

Happy Hour Roundup
* Takedown of the day: Rick Brookhiser on the fantasy that Rudy Giuliani has any chance of becoming the 2012 GOP nominee. Short, but brutal. * Jonathan Cohn is optimstic that Dems are finally showing some fight on Health Care. * But Gallup finds Americans favor Repeal 46-40, though with 14 percent Undecided, there's still plenty of room for either side to make real gains. Settle in for a long fight. * Reality check of the day: Ezra Klein on the real reasons health reform may be in trouble. Als...

Rep. Michelle Bachmann: Im Going to Iowa. Theres Your Answer
And the question was……are you running for President? (Star Tribune) — Rep. Michele Bachmann gave her most direct answer yet on Friday when asked if she was running for president: “I am going to Iowa,” she said. “There’s your answer. I am going to Iowa.” Bachmann’s response, in an interview with ABC News on Friday, was the strongest statement the Minnesota Republican has made indicating that she’s interested in a White House run. “...

Bachmann: Liberals also welcome at legal summits
Minneapolis—U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann said Friday that liberal commentators and legal experts would be just as welcome as Conservatives to participate in a series of constitutional discussions she is organizing for members of Congress. The Minnesota Republican and founder of the congressional Tea Party Caucus drew criticism after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most conservative members of the High Court, agreed to appear at the first event Jan. 24. Some legal experts no...

Kardashians Have Multi-Million Dollar Date to Keep with Court in Fresno
The ubiquitous Kardashians, when last we reported on them here at UNCOVERAGE.net, were ready to debut their new Kardashian pre-paid debit card. The bad publicity and possibly illegality so rattled the girlzzzzzzzzzzzz that they backed out of their contract. But now the Revenue Resource Group, LLC  Credit Card company is suing them for breaching the two-year MasterCard-approved deal.  “The Dash Dolls,” - Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Kris - or their attorneys, we assu...

The Silly Hat Throw Season
The Silly Hat Throw Season is now in full swing. Presidential flagpoles face metal fatigue from so many names going up and down them. Everyone’s political vanity is loosed in this season, and a media now constructed to avoid serious political discussion for as long as possible is more than willing to play along. There are about 10-12 reasonably serious potential Republican Candidates for president in 2012. Not all of them will run. As I pointed out in a recent column, the larger number will ...

Congresswoman shot in head, attack prompts calls for end to violent rhetoric
The country came together in a period of mourning on Saturday after an Arizona congresswoman was shot and critically wounded. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was having a constituent event when a gunman opened fire. Giffords was shot in the head, at least 13 people were wounded and six people were killed - including Arizona’s chief Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl and one of Giffords’s aides. The bullet went through-and-through Giffords’s brain, but after her surgery d...

Minnesota politicians send wishes to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Minnesota’s members of Congress have begun to send their wishes and condolences to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her family, following a shooting in Tuscan, Ariz., which has so far claimed the lives of 6 people, including a Federal Judge, and seriously wounding Giffords and as many as a dozen others. Rep. Michele Bachmann said on Facebook: “My heart goes out to the family of Gabby and her staff, sadly she was savagely gunned down while performing her congressional duties. This is not ...

Thoughts on the Gabrielle Giffords assassination attempt
By Michael J.W. Stickings I was out and about this afternoon when I heard a brief report on a local Radio Station about a shooting in Arizona. My first thought: Great, another shooting in the U.S. Another sad story from a violent, gun-crazy country. I pulled out my BlackBerry and quickly discovered what had happened -- and who the target was. My second thought: Well, we sort of knew this was coming, right, this sort of political violence, likely by someone steeped in right-wing ideology? It wa...

Gabrielle Giffords In Last Interiew: Deficit Is Greatest National Security Threat And Its Important We Maintain Our Superiority
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Photo gallery: Praying for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
“ Praying for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords “ Photos by AP & AFP ...

Gabrielle Giffords Shooting - Updates
I watched the medical team Press Conference at noon. I have to say, I remain so impressed with the professionalism and determination of the medical trauma teams at the University Medical Center in Tucson, and elsewhere. It is comforting to know that even in a mid-sized city such as Tucson, such trauma teams are available. Of course, the reason such teams exist and are so competent at dealing with gunshot wounds is the legacy of gang and other violence in cities. Robert Muller, FBI Director, als...

"I Can't Trust the Government" Gunman Shoots Arizona Congresswoman, Kills Federal Judge
At the moment, we don't know if gunman Jared Lee Loughner was motivated by Partisanship or ideology. But his shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents was a political attack nonetheless. John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated... The Tea Party congresswoman from Minnesota is headed for the first-caucus state of Iowa. She's openly discussing a presidential bid. But would she really run? Only "if I f...

Gunman Who Shot Congresswoman, Killed Judge, Declared: "I Can't Trust the Government"
At the moment, we don't know if gunman Jared Lee Loughner was motivated by Partisanship or ideology. But his shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her constituents was a political attack nonetheless. John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated... The Tea Party congresswoman from Minnesota is headed for the first-caucus state of Iowa. She's openly discussing a presidential bid. But would she really run? Only "if I f...

Arizona Authorities Search for Second Man in Jared Lee Loughner Tucson Mass Shooting
Arizona authorities as looking for a second individual who might be linked with the mass Murder shooting yesterday that left US Rep Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition after being shot in the head, 6 dead and 11 others injured.  At last night’s police Press Conference,  Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik stated that police are looking for a white male, dark hair, approximately 40-50 years old. However, last night Dupnik did not go into details, not release any pics. Now, authori

Flashback: Giffords Was One Of Two AZ Reps Who Protested Brewers Medicaid Cuts
As ThinkProgress previously reported, at least two Arizonans have died because they were denied funding for organ transplants that they were promised following Medicaid Budget cuts championed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R). The Governor called the transplants “optional.” Horrified by the fact that 98 Arizonans were unable to get organ transplants they desperately needed, last month Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) joined with Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) to be the only two members of t...