Backstabbin' Burr

Uh, Richard Burr? Your party is background noise now. Go away.

Burr - the Republican senator from North Carolina - is now delaying the confirmation of injured Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth for an important VA post.

Why? Just because Burr feels like it. He's mad that things haven't been going his way as much lately, so by golly, he's going to make sure the entire VA gets mired in the mismanagement that's defined the past 8 years. Just for political reasons.

Did Richard Burr ever serve in the military? Nothing in his biography says he did. So why does he think he knows more about the needs of veterans than Tammy Duckworth? Burr should be thanking Duckworth for her service.

Burr's obstructionism also continues a pattern of right-wing big shots intentionally trying to gut public services just to find an excuse to let private, for-profit companies pick up all their business. This is what led to problems in the VA under Bush. The VA had long been known for providing better medical service than for-profit providers, but the Bush regime deliberately neglected the VA - again because of politics.

Ideologues like those who compose the Republican Right today conceal a knife behind their backs with which they stab America's brave veterans. Richard Burr is disgusting.

(Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1470194.html)