Richard Burr Blocks Nomination of Disabled Iraq War Vet, Major Tammy Duckworth

Submitted by Christian Dem in NC on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 7:42am

Just when we thought that Richard Burr couldn't outdo himself, jimstaro at dKos lets us know that he's holding up Tammy Duckworth's nomination to a key post at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

According to the AP, Burr, the ranking Republican on the Veterans Affairs Committee, asked the committee to hold off on sending her nomination to the full Senate until he can ask more questions. Um, Richard? Unless you were sleeping through the hearings, you should have had time to ask your precious questions.

I look at this and I wonder--why in the world do Repub Senators from our state seem to lack any sort of decency? First Liddy's disgusting ads, now this.

You guys know what to do--pester Burr. Now.

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Thanks Christian Dem

Submitted by Betsy Muse on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 8:15am.

I hope you don't mind I changed your headline a bit and added contact information for Burr's office before I front paged this. I was getting ready to write this exact piece and you have saved me time so I can get out in my garden. Thank you, thank you.

The Republicans have done everything in their power to obstruct the appointments made in about every department of the Obama administration. I guess they figure if they can't block legislation, they'll do what they can to make it harder for the government to operate by blocking personnel. Geithner has been on his own for a while, but I believe some of his department is finally beefing up.

We need to out the Republicans for obstructing the smooth operation of our government agencies by blocking the appointees and preventing them from hiring staff.



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Rachel Maddow's commentary on this:

Submitted by Linda on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 9:22am.

Damn that's good, Linda

Submitted by Betsy Muse on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 10:24am.

Thanks for posting. I watch Rachel almost every night. Missed that one.



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Good to see Burr getting a little national exposure

Submitted by James on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 10:30am.

Good stuff

I wrote to Burr yesterday.

Submitted by plembo on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 8:03am.

Dear Senator Burr:

Your delaying of Tammy Duckworth's appointment is an embarrassment.

Phil Lembo

Think he'll get the message?

Gee....I don't know, Phil

Submitted by Betsy Muse on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 8:10am.

You were kinda beating around the bush, don't you think? Next time take a more direct approach. :)

Welcome to BlueNC. Hope you'll hang around to continue sending Burr the message on into 2010.



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Brrrrrrr

Submitted by James on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 9:07am.

I don't think he'll get the message. Burr manages to interpret everything around him as a sign that he's the Chosen One to fill the stinky shoes of Jesse Helms.

"If standin' up fer fambly values against the likes of that communist Duckworth means some people think I'm an embarr'sment, then so be it. God knows where I stand and that's all that matters to me."