Worst voting record in the house, this is heinous

BobTheCoward

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I was thinking today about the representatives and voting. I thought about who abstains from voting and how often. Is voting on legislation a fundamental role? Can a representative transcend that requirement?

I submit to you, representative Giffords's 2011 voting record.


Time Period Number of Votes Missed Votes Missed Percent
2011-Q1 212 201 94.8%
2011-Q2 281 281 100%
2011-Q3 247 246 99.6%
2011-Q4 208 208 100%

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412188&tab=votes
 
Isn't she the one that was shot in the head?

I assume that rather puts her political career on the backburner, no?
 
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If this is not a sick joke then I think this chart better represents her voting record from the time before she was shot in the head.
 
It sounds like everyone here feels that it is possible for a member of the house to transcend the expectation of voting and still serve his or her constituents.

I do not.

I am a firm believer that a good representative in her position should have resigned.
 
varwoche said:
Yes and this is the one year anniversary of the event.

Not very classy, BobTheCoward.
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Oh ****....

...I do live in Arizona. The local paper was covering it all week and that is why I thought about it. I did not realize this was the day.

Regardless of her personal tragedy, she is a public servant. Her ability to perform her job is a perfectly appropriate thing to discuss this day.
 
BobTheCoward said:
It sounds like everyone here feels that it is possible for a member of the house to transcend the expectation of voting and still serve his or her constituents.
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Are you one of her constituents?
 
BobTheCoward said:
Oh ****....

...I do live in Arizona. The local paper was covering it all week and that is why I thought about it. I did not realize this was the day.

Regardless of her personal tragedy, she is a public servant. Her ability to perform her job is a perfectly appropriate thing to discuss this day.
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Bob,

This is no way to get ahead. Don't lose your head over this.
 
BobTheCoward said:
It sounds like everyone here feels that it is possible for a member of the house to transcend the expectation of voting and still serve his or her constituents.

I do not.

I am a firm believer that a good representative in her position should have resigned.
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Will you quit your Job when you have an accident and cannot work for a while?
 
The OP could be the sickest thing I've ever read at JREF forums.

And I've read all the Truther comments in the 9-11 Conspiracy Theories subforum.
 
Classic, first the "second amendment remedy" type gives this person a near-mortal injury, and then we have another person showing the most utterly disgusting ethics and trying to take advantage of the actions of the "second amendment remedy" felon.

Disgusting. Utterly disgusting.

Mene mene tekel upharsin.
 
I'm not sure what the process would be for appointing a temporary fill-in, but I suspect that the far-right, which has controlling power in Arizona right now, would find a way to get someone in office that opposes everything she stands for. In a case like this, she is better serving her people as an absentee.
 
jj said:
Classic, first the "second amendment remedy" type gives this person a near-mortal injury, and then we have another person showing the most utterly disgusting ethics and trying to take advantage of the actions of the "second amendment remedy" felon.

Disgusting. Utterly disgusting.

Mene mene tekel upharsin.
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Jared Lee Loughner is a schizophrenic Free-Man-On-The-Land who is so loony-tunes that even the posters on AboveTopSecret think he is bat **** *********** loco.

Loughner's actions have nothing to do with anyone's politics, and it cannot be tied to anyone elses political rhetoric.
 
Tricky said:
I'm not sure what the process would be for appointing a temporary fill-in, but I suspect that the far-right, which has controlling power in Arizona right now, would find a way to get someone in office that opposes everything she stands for. In a case like this, she is better serving her people as an absentee.
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And, without spending any time looking into it, I'm reasonably certain this is customary (or at least not without precedent) in Congress.

What comes immediately to mind is the fact that when that one vote really mattered, Sen. Ted Kennedy essentially made it in from his deathbed to vote. And after his death, losing that one seat to the Republicans was a major problem for Senate Democrats trying to get the health insurance reform law passed. But I suspect other than that one vote, Kennedy's voting record looked a lot like Rep. Giffords' for a time period.
 
Newtons Bit said:
Jared Lee Loughner is a schizophrenic Free-Man-On-The-Land who is so loony-tunes that even the posters on AboveTopSecret think he is bat **** *********** loco.

Loughner's actions have nothing to do with anyone's politics, and it cannot be tied to anyone elses political rhetoric.
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I agree that he's so insane that he transcends politics. But if anything, that increases the chances that he was triggered by the irresponsible, incendiary 2008 rhetoric. See link in my sig.
 
varwoche said:
I agree that he's so insane that he transcends politics. But if anything, that increases the chances that he was triggered by the irresponsible, incendiary 2008 rhetoric. See link in my sig.
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Uh, no. Loughner didn't ascribe to any mainstream political belief, didn't watch tv or listen to talk radio, and started hating Giffords immediately after he met her in 2007.

His hate for Giffords was born out of a weird personal vendetta after she dismissed his crazy little idea that government must be meaningless because the words used to create government are also meaningless.
 
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