Richard Burr

From Daily Kos.

In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama highlighted one particular piece of legislation to restore the public's faith in their government:

“Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I will sign it tomorrow,” Obama said during his address to a joint session of Congress.

Today, the Senate voted to move forward with the STOCK Act, which will do precisely that. Today's vote was on cloture, the Senate agreeing to move the bill forward, and it passed 93-2 (Sens. Tom Coburn [R-OK] and Richard Burr [R-NC] voted against).

North Carolina has the second-longest federal judicial emergency in the nation.

Still a dumbass frat boy.

Burr, 55, acknowledged that his 2010 re-election victory liberated him to more aggressively pursue policy and political goals.

TRANSLATION: I was a political coward, afraid to really stand up for what I believe in, until I got re-elected.

Sen. Richard Burr last week co-sponsored a bill to overhaul the Medicaid program, overturn the federal health care plan and give states new flexibility to design their own health insurance program for the poor. [snip]
The Medicaid Improvement and State Empowerment Act would repeal the national health care law passed last year by Congress with the backing of President Barack Obama. It would provide money to the states to run their own programs.

Ah yes. Nothing like the smell of chickenshit in the morning. Burr doesn't have the backbone to take a principled stand on anything. If he's against entitlement programs and all in favor of states having more freedom, why not just cut states off completely?

This post brought to you via Under the Dome at the Charlotte Observer.

Eager to fabricate some tough-guy credentials, Senator Richard Burr couldn't stop himself from rushing into the breach, exclaiming to the media that torture was an essential ingredient in killing Osama bin Laden. A few days later, John McCain called bullshit, declaring that torture played no role in finding bin Laden. Today, Leon Panetta lays out the facts even more clearly, explaining that torture actually led to false information that delayed finding bin Laden.

Senator Burr is either a grandstanding opportunist, a simple liar, or so badly misinformed as to be criminally negligent in doing his job.

I vote for all three.

Last Friday’s Statesville Record covered Senator Burr’s speech at country club where he discussed his plan to balance the Federal budget by taking an axe to Social Security and Medicare.

“Reforming Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is essential to eliminating the massive debt in this country.”

Senator Burr couldn’t be more wrong.

Two dozen immigration scholars from across the state and working at several North Carolina colleges universities -- UNC, Duke, NC State, ECU, App State, UNCG and UNCA -- have released a letter imploring Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr to support the DREAM Act.

They write: "These are not students looking for a handout. These are hardworking students, many of whom are graduating with honors and as valedictorians of their classes. They want the opportunity to work. Someday, if the DREAM Act passes, these children will be your electoral constituents, as will be their parents. Certainly, their future children will be your constituents, and will be able to run for office themselves. What legacy would you like to leave for your future constituents?"

Read the whole letter and see the signatories at ncequals.org/323 or after the jump...

Senator Richard Burr:
Still a chickenhawk, still a dumb bell.