The House of Representatives, in which Gabrielle Giffords sat since 2007, has suspended the meetings planned for this week, waiting to reassess the situation and assume the impact caused by the tragedy on Saturday. In a way, the killing of Tucson has already had the effect of stopping, albeit temporarily, the revolutionary impulse with which the new Republican majority came to the Capitol.Among the events is suspended on the vote to reject health care reform advocated by Barack Obama and passed last year by Congress. The vote, which Republicans surely would come out victorious, it was purely symbolic, since there were very few chances that were backed by the Senate, controlled by Democrats, and even less that was ratified by the president.
But it was a gesture of utmost importance with which the new majority wanted to make the innovative spirit in coming to Washington. The events in Arizona will require, probably, to moderate the spirit and condition the agenda of changes to the new sentiment against political radicalism, at least for now, has spread throughout the country.
The new Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, told reporters yesterday appeared to warn against the threat of a criminal episode ends up with immediate political consequences. "This inhuman act will not deter us," he said. "We can not allow any act, however heinous, we stop." It will not be easy to achieve.
The Republican majority leader, Eric Cantor, confirmed the suspension of the operations of the House without making clear how and when to be resumed: "All the legislation scheduled for next week has been postponed, so that we can take those actions necessary in the light of this tragedy.
" It is very likely to vote on health reform to move to another date, but confirmed that Cantor is in contact with Democratic congressional leaders to discuss joint initiatives in relation to the attack Giffords and reschedule the agenda of the House. In the current climate, Republicans can not afford to sound extremist or reject the bipartisan hand forced by its resounding defeat in November, they help the Democrats.
Giffords herself, soon to be a national hero, he practiced bipartisanship throughout his political career. It was one of the few Democrats who joined the reading of the Constitution with which the Republicans decided to start on Thursday, the legislature. "I think a bipartisan act like this is a great way to start this Congress," said the parliamentary time is in critical condition at a hospital in Tucson.
Now betraying the will of this woman with the promotion of an agenda designed to completely undo the work of Obama would be politically very risky. Even though the Republicans, very pressured by the commitments made during the campaign to a base controlled by the Tea Party, decided to go ahead with the project fully, it has lost the freshness, the momentum that any policy initiative is in its early weeks life.
Tucson's episode forced to reconsider everything that was said during the election campaign. As much as there is no real connection between a violent event in a remote Arizona shopping center and the expressed will at the polls by the millions of Americans, the truth is that a democracy like this every day is affected by the changing mood of their citizens and reflect, more or less distorted, making it the media.
Today, the nation is in tears by a horrific event, and tears have so much power and votes.
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