OP, where is her family? Guess what this couple is doing to exploit the tragedy doesn´t bother them. I hope nobody says they are probably scared. No excuse.

It´s the "Brady Paradigm".

She´s the poster child.

It´s all heartstrings and no logic for the left.

Were she to actually fully recover she would be of no value to them and they would dump her.

The left is shameless.

At last report, the Conservative Federal Judge that was killed in the same shooting is still dead.

And his family aren´t constantly in the news either!

A federal judge died in that parking lot. Why have we never heard anything about him? He must have been a conservative.

This person is disgusting! Using his wounded wife for personal advancement. I cannot express my repulsion.

Who really cares? I would rather this couple go away.

I also think he is a shameless individual. The look in her eyes is vacant, her expression is blank. How serious is the damage to her brain, does she understand what they expect of her? So very sad that he would use his wife in this way, for some agenda of his own or the influence of the Left. It is immoral.

Intimate photos? This sounds like too much information.

dem pols are shameless

A chunk of her brain was destroyed by the bullet. The surrounding brain tissue around the bullet hole would have been damaged. Go figure!

Their previous mascot, Brady has gotten too old, so now they need a new, better looking mascot - Giffords. Mascot handler Sarah has been replace by husband/handler Mark.

Mark Kelly reminds me of the original movie, "The Fly." A very tiny person with a high-pitched voice, screaming "Help me...!".

Her husband Mark is pathetic. I feel very sorry for Gabby, and her injury is a tragedy, but the way the media and Mark exploit this poor woman is appalling. Everything they are proposing in gun control would not have stopped her injury. Where is the common sense on this issue?

Gag me with a backhoe.

Wonder how many chicks Mark has on the side? Of course, that´s a badge of honor for Dems.

Slowly morphing into Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson territory.

A democrat president was shot and killed by a gun. Guns weren´t banned after that, and they´re not going to get banned now because a back-bencher Rep. got shot.

I´m not convinced that Gabby Giffords understands what she´s saying, although the words are very simple. I´ve just looked at her gun control speech again and it reminds me even more of a young child´s first important performance.

I´ve searched for any reference to what "age" she seems to be after her traumatic brain injury and cannot find anything current.

I did find in one neurosurgeon´s opinion that with such injuries, about a year to 18 months is the stopping point for progress. Perhaps the news of a companion dog joining the household last October signals the stopping point has been reached, I don´t know. A service dog from the organization providing the Giffords dog is described as follows:

America´s VetDogs provides service dogs that can help recipients by performing tasks such as opening and closing doors, cabinets and drawers, turning on and off light switches, providing counterbalance support as a person walks or climbs stairs, "calling for help" (barking) if the person falls and can´t get up, retrieving items, alerting to seizures and also reacting to high or low blood sugar levels for those with diabetes.

The lack of an expert update on Giffords´ condition signals to me that her current state and prognosis is not that good. If anyone has a source such an update, please post same.

I noticed last night that he is always looking for the camera, and he took her hand after realizing it was on her.

He´s having the time of his life, isn´t he? Loving the limelight. POS.

Enough of them. No more please.

There´s a point beyond which tragedy can´t be exploited without becoming crass.

Doing a glossy, "intimate" photo spread in Vogue magazine is a barf-worthy bridge too far.

"Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, has constantly been by his wife´s side since she was targeted by gunman Jared Lee Loughner on January 8, 2011."

The most cursory of fact checking would have revealed that Kelly spent some time in space monitoring the computers that fly the Space Shuttle. Quota-NASA´s flight doctors thought he was okay to fly. I still do not, and think it was foolish to risk others´ lives on Kelly´s mental stability.

Her husband is scum. The vacant look on her face answers a lot of questions. She in just a puppet now.