A lot of people in the press and around the country like to remark about how they don't like my Representative, the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Unlike kind, caring Sarah Palin, they like to make Nancy into a cold, ruthless, uncaring figure. Well, while Sarah was hiding after "blood libel" and the current Speaker was opening a DC cocktail party, the former Speaker was in the hospital room when Gabby opened her eyes.
Surrounded in her hospital room by her husband, her parents, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Arizona Democrat lifted her lids for the first time since a would-be assassin fired a bullet into through her brain Saturday during a rampage that killed six people in her native Tucson.
“We had been telling her that she was inspiring the country with her courage and that we couldn’t wait to take her out to pizza and a weekend away,” Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, said. “Then after she heard our voices and the encouragement of [her husband] Mark [Kelly] and her parents, she struggled briefly and opened her eyes for the very first time. It was a miracle to witness.”
The three women are not only colleagues, but close personal friends of Gabby's. But it is during times like these that you learn who truly cares about whom, and who takes time out that "busy shcedule" to stand by a friend in need.