Tammy Duckworth feigns concern for the troops
The Washington Post reports that Senator Tammy Duckworth lit into the President this weekend when he blamed Democrat Senators for failing to fund the government and causing a shut down;
“Does he even know that there are service members who are in harm’s way right now, watching him, looking for their commander in chief to show leadership, rather than to try to deflect blame?” Duckworth said. “Or that his own Pentagon says that the short-term funding plans he seems intent on pushing is actually harmful to not just the military, but to our national security?”
The junior senator from Illinois said Trump’s attempts to pin the shutdown on Democrats, especially by using the military, were examples of the president failing to take responsibility.
“I spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible,” Duckworth continued. “Sadly, this is something the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do — and I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger.”
Duckworth saved her zinger for the end, a dig at the medical reason Trump has claimed was why he was able to avoid military service for the fifth time.
“And I have a message for ‘Cadet Bone Spurs,’ ” Duckworth said. “If you cared about our military, you’d stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops, and millions of innocent civilians, in danger.”
Senator Duckworth lost her legs in a 2004 helicopter crash in Iraq and I have no qualms with her military service – she certainly did her part and sacrificed more than most of us.
My problem is with the politician Tammy Duckworth. She was once the Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs where she was found to have misused Department funds and she personally fired and threatened employees who brought instances of veteran abuse in the State to her attention. She (or the State of Illinois taxpayers) settled in the resulting whistleblower lawsuits.
From Wiki;
Also in 2009, the Illinois Auditor General released an audit of the Veteran’s Affairs department. Some issues noted by the audit predated Duckworth’s tenure, while the majority of the audit covered Duckworth’s tenure. Findings of the audit included a fiscal year 2007 report that was not completed on time, failure to conduct annual reviews of benefits received by Illinois veterans, and failure to establish a task force to study the possible health effects of exposure to hazardous materials. The routine audit covered a two-year period, June 2006 to June 2008, and the findings were described by the auditor’s department as “typical” in its audits
In 2009, Duckworth was approved by the Senate to serve in the Shinseki Veterans’ Affairs Department as the Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. She bravely announced that she would be testing the VA system by attending college full time to complete her advanced degree while taking a fat SES paycheck from the VA. While the VA burned under Shinseki, while veterans lined up for their medical benefits to treat their injuries, Duckworth jumped to the head of the line of veterans’ college benefits, taking the post-9-11 GI Bill stipend along with a paycheck for a job she never did.
When the VA started taking flack for the ineptitude of Shinseki, Duckworth abandoned ship like a good rat.
The only veteran Tammy Duckworth cares about is Tammy Duckworth.
I don’t see her criticizing Chuck Schumer for his five deferments from the draft. Or Harry Reid. Does she consider them to be draft dodgers, too?
Thanks to Chief Tango for the Washington Post link.
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Expecting the “Good Senator” to criticize members of her own party on the same basis as she does the POTUS would be expecting intellectual honesty and consistency from her, Jonn.
Aren’t ye a wee bit auld t’be a believin’ in Leprechauns, laddie?
“Good Senator”….thats an oxymoron if i’ve ever heard one.
Well, there was a reason that particular phrase was in quotes . . . .
Bless her heart…
No kidding! I think she lost more than her legs, I think SHE LOST HER MIND! She must live in a box to not know schumer and pelosi are/were behind the shutdown! Vote the worthless slug out next election!
It also goes to the fact that no one really expects much of anything from a socialist democrat. Thus when they do fucked up shit, it is hardly unexpected. They do expect the conservatives and republicans (not always the same thing) to act like adults though.
Oh, just sit down and shut up, Senator. (Is it OK to call her Ma’am?)
Did you vote for or against the bill which would have extended funding? If you voted for it, you did what you could to keep things afloat temporarily. If you voted against it, then yes, indeed, you are to blame for this mess. Of course, you have some company in that regard.
All you are doing is making yourself sound like a lunatic, Tammy. Then again…
Sit down and shut up? I see what you did there.
I don’t think that self-serving cow deserves the honorarium ‘Ma’am’, OWB.
However, it is your choice to use it or not.
She voted against it. Five Democrats voted yes, including the new senator from Alabama, but they were offset by five Republicans who voted no. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/19/us/politics/live-senate-vote-government-shutdown.html
IMHO “Ma’am” is a title of respect which a greedy narcissistic self-centered ghoul like her does not deserve while “Senator” has been the title of many a soulless greedy corrupt ghoul over the years, a number of which have done prison time.
Screw her and the rest of the Dem cabal. They care more about illegals than they do veterans.
Indeed it’s hard to have any criticism of her service, but as with all things once our service is over we don’t a pass for the rest of our days.
She’s a liar, she’s proven to be corrupt, and she’s a vindictive rat bastard when caught.
Just like John Fucking Kerry her service no longer matters at this point, holding her up as above reproach because she lost her legs is a meaningless exercise in political drama. But the Democrats will always use the past to attempt to present an unimpeachable source as long as it favors them, you’ll notice they didn’t much use Ted Kennedy’s past so their hypocrisy is on ready display.
Just because you served honorably doesn’t mean you’ll continue to be honorable…she’s a great example of that reality.
That being said, would Flynn be in the same boat? He admitted he lied after his service.
I think yes, being a liar is being a liar right?
For me your service is one component of your life, it might be a really short chapter in the story of your life, or cover a couple of chapters, but it eventually ends and you enter the next stage of your life.
No one gets a free pass tomorrow for what you’ve done today. Save a kid from a fire today and beat your wife to death tomorrow and you’re just another murdering piece of shit deserving the electric chair.
I’m not a fucking Democrat, nobody gets a pass from me left or right.
The Lion of the Senate was shitbag murderer and I don’t fucking care what anyone says about him he should have served prison time and died hated in obscurity.
So yes, do good yesterday but be a liar today and you’re a fucking liar for now…
Especially when those lies or corruption hurt those you’re supposed to be serving.
*vigorously shaking polished wooden cane above head*
Amen and amen! Brother, to all you’ve said!
I see some of the respondents here perceive that Duckworth is a moron.
Having had the displeasure of having met the senator several times, I can attest the accuracy of said perception!
Truthfully speaking, it might be surpassingly generous to label her a moron. I’ve met ferns with more active mental machinery… except when anything presents that touches on the excessive sense of an all-encompassing entitled avarice, the fumes of which surround her like a loud odor.
The positive point to be drawn is that the foulness of her rapacious hunger for the taxpayers’ livelihood, eaten-out by taxation and a continuous defrauding of the Productive Citizens makes her a perfect member of the Uniparty.
*harrumphingly settles down*
*sighs*
My! It feels great to say that…it’s been troubling me a long while.
That’s why we’re here.
“eaten out” Dude….
YUK !!!!
Did you have to do that ???
I will not negate the pain, suffering and life-long price she paid in service, but I wonder about the honorable part. Why is it that we don’t hear from those who served with her, those who saved her life, about her honorable service? Could it be because the character traits she has displayed post service are traits she displayed pre-injury? Could it be her Blue Falconry began long before her catastrophic injuries? Could it be we don’t hear much from her former teammates, subordinates and leaders because they choose to say nothing because they have nothing nice to say? Doesn’t that say a whole lot?
Just because somebody got hurt while serving doesn’t mean they weren’t a shitbag…
Having retired from the Guard in a neighbouring state of hers and by necessity regularly working with the Guard in her state and her fellow Guardsmen in Illinois I have yet to find one Illinois Guardsman with a positive thing to say about her.
Not a single one
Let’s contrast this with the reputation of the current Director of the IDVA, Erica Jeffries. Blackhawk helicopter pilot. West Point. From all accounts, honorable service and people trip over themselves to say good things about having served with her.
its almost like the Republican governor said to the Dems..”Yeah? Well, here’s what an honorable, accomplished, dedicated and respected female helicopter pilot looks and acts like”.
Yeah being in the MOGUARD and in the 106th and a tech at AASF#2 Ft. Wood I worked with her crew chief and meet her co-pilot who landed the Blackhawk. They never said anything bad or good about her. Now the the other people in the 106th who deployed with her. They couldn’t stand her. Said she was a stuck up bitch who forced her way on to that deployment.
“Just because you served honorably doesn’t mean you’ll continue to be honorable…”
Alas,how true …
It us a complete mystery to me why creeps like Shumer ,Leahy , Durbin etc. get reelected over and over again.
Not really. Remember: 53 . . . 47.
Many people are members of the FSA. They vote for whomever promises them the most free stuff – long-term consequences be damned.
IL is obviously a huge problem, as both of its Senators are zeroes. Overall I think this has to do with population centers in IL, NY, and CA. Population in less urban, more rural areas are more conservative, even in CA.
Chicago and Cook County have chosen Senators and decided the Presidential Electoral Votes for IL for the longest just like LA, San Foo-foo and Sacrudmento have done so with CA for at least decades. NY State is the same, go upstate and it’s Red State America but NYC makes all the Senatorial and Gubernatorial results go D-rat.
Very true. I became aware of that when I attended Wabash Valley College in southern Illinois. I was surprised how conservative southern Illinois is compared to the areas around Chicago and Springfield. Even the professors and other instructors were conservative. The school president actually came to us to build a gun for him, one of those dreaded “assault rifles.”
This is the phony garbage that is allowed here now.
She did more, gave more than 90 percent of the so called “vets” on this site.
You sir are a perfect example of a phony..Wabash College is and always has been in West Central Indiana..
Now we are telling vets if you are not right wing your scum..Well fuck you and your treasonous ass. She earned her shit, did you.
Huh. Apparently someone went through the trouble to create a website showing the college in MT Carmel IL. Weird.
http://wvcwarriorathletics.com/landing/index
Your point appears to be that if you don’t agree with a lefty you are a phony? Or something equally irrational.
No one has denigrated her military service here, although the simple fact that no one who served with her has publicly extoled her honor while serving does make one wonder just how honorable that service might have been. Odd, to say the least.
It is valid to judge one’s behavior today as a stand alone item. For anyone. Calling her a liar is simply an accurate description of her current behavior.
See, this is what happens when you’re drunk and posting at 0345 hrs when everybody else is asleep.
Two entirely different colleges.
Wabash College – Crawfordsville, IN.
Wabash Valley College – Mt. Carmel, IL.
If you’re trying to use something as a baseline to slur the “vets” here at TAH, at least get your facts correct.
Dumbass.
This made me laugh out loud, beside the obvious fact that no one here denigrated her service or the fact she lost far more than most will ever lose serving their nation.
But again the simple fact that just because you were combat wounded you don’t get a fucking pass to lie, bully, and cheat others for the rest of your life seems to escape this individual.
Ms. Duckworth’s actions after her service don’t speak well of her character as she is now, regardless of whether or not anyone likes that. There are significant concerns about corruption and punishment of whistleblowers with evidence backing those claims to suggest she is no longer acting in the service of her nation but has instead decided to act in her own self-interest.
She did more than I ever did as a cold war infantryman, no doubt about it. I make a point all the time of talking about the load these younger vets are carrying compared to my own minor contribution. I can’t even imagine going through what she has experienced in service to her nation. But again none of that excuses current corrupt activities.
Everyone is good until they commit their first crime. Then after that, not so much.
I wonder if Nevadaboi here would apply the same standard to Randy Cunningham. He did some pretty amazing shit with his F-4 in Vietnam. He still turned out to be a shitbag in DC.
Go back to your whorehouse, Nevada39, you’re drunk.
Duckworth got her legs fucked up while in service. She was a helo pilot who mostly flew resupply missions and routine shit like that. Too bad it happened, but she is still a piece of shit. Ask any veteran who got hit and they didn’t do it willingly. Shit happens. And she chose to be a fucked up piece of shit socialist democrat who puts her party first ahead of her country. That nullifies everything she ever did in her life. Fuck your 90 percent shit. You don’t know us.
BTW turd burglar, Wabash College is at 2200 College Drive Mt Carmel, IL. That ain’t in fucking Indiana.
Remember, 50% of the population has below average intelligence. I think they live in “blue” states.
Get so damn tired of any deferment being called draft dodging from the party who glorified it.
Piss on her, IMHO she’s gone the same route as the likes of John “Lurch” Kerry, John McCain, Chuck Hagel and John Murtha. She and the D-rat Party decided to make DACA the reason for voting “No” thus making illegal aliens a higher priority than taxpaying American Citizens. It’s obvious that the D-rat party WANTS all the illegal aliens they can get into the USA because once here they’ll do all they can to make them D-rat voters.
As I read on a post somewhere on Algore’s intertubes, does anyone think for one second that Dems would give a shit about DREAMERS if it was known that they would vote Republican?
If “Dreamers” were likely to vote Republican the D-rats would have had a double-reinforced, electrified DMZ-like fence with manned Guard Towers built on the Border decades ago.
Maybe, we should start a rumor about such voting. 8 – )
Actually, that is why they want the never ending supply of low-end hard-to-assimilate newcomers. By generation #3, many are successful and moving up, and see what patronizing exploiters were milking papa and granpapa for votes. Thus they perpetually need the influx of folks to “rescue”.
Thank you for your military service, currently you are a turd!
Duckworth needs something to do that doesn’t involve a government job or taxpayers’ cash.
Didn’t vote for her, never will. She is a waste of time, serves only herself, and leeches onto whatever she thinks will get her on top.
Just to put it in perspective, someone running in the next election left a message on my voicemail that he’s a GOPer and is in promoting term limits for members of Congress. That’s something that is left to the states, but it might do some good in this ridiculous state. If it doesn’t, I may have to move to Wyoming. It’s prettier there, anyway.
Following in Murtha’s footsteps. Paid a price for his service, then was a complete ass as a politician.
Yes. We really have to dispel the notion and fight the inclination to think that a good soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine necessarily means a good anything else.
“I spent my entire adult life….”
Either she’s a tad premature on that, she’s dead, she’s lying, or she has resumed childhood.
All of the above, 2/17 Air Cav.
” she’s dead, she’s lying”
Well she is a Democrat. And once she is dead, she’ll keep voting Democrat
Being fair, what’s the story regarding the ‘deferrments? I did not know about them. Was it really five?
Yes five, college and bone spurs as I recall…some say the bone spurs were rather convenient as there are plenty of photos of him playing sports right up to the moment of the diagnosis….
My bone spurs came after service not before…but I guess when you have a few million you could get them before…like Limbaugh’s ass pimple there are some outspoken righties with rather convenient health issues at draft time…
I don’t even care that Trump never served, I do find it rather funny though that now (same with Ted Nugent) he likes to talk shit about what a great soldier he would have been….we’ve all met those assholes (like Clinton) who “almost joined” or would have been a great addition to the military had they the time to serve…
I am not a Clinton supporter either, one can dislike both the current party in power and the party that lost.
Yeah it’s interesting how politicians simply know what’s best for the military even though they can’t make it into a MEPS.. goes with that mighter than thou attitude…this lady has my respect as a wounded vet. Not biting on the political aspect, but she does have a point there.
Both Trump’s appointment of Mattis, and his actions so far indicate Duckworth’s comment amounts to a non sequitur. The following, at least it seems to me, speaks volumes about how Trump likely views the military. Which is ultimately what matters.
Schumer didn’t receive any deferments. A quick google search will show he signed up for the draft but his lottery number 182 was never called.
Yeah, that was his 1971 number according to an article that doesn’t provide a link to their source. He graduated from High School in 1967 and by 1971, he was in law school. So, he needed draft deferments to stay in college in the interceding years.
Do you have any source showing he actually received the deferments? I looked for a citation on the NYmag website listing all of the ny politicians service during Vietnam and didn’t see one.
Well, back in the day, you couldn’t attend college without applying for a deferment, so….
Schumer was born in 1950 so he was eligible for the draft in 1968, the first lottery was done in 1969, for people born 1945-1950 (the 1970 lottery). Schumer’s number was 201 – only numbers up to 195 were called, so he barely made it.
But actually, he needed deferments for 1968 & 1969.
Ya, I had those student deferments in 68 and 69. Then came the 1970 lottery. My number was 13! Poof, like a fart in the wind, I’m drafted.
2-S student deferrments were practically automatic in the 1960-1972 period. No male who was sane wanted to be drafted out of college after spending time, money and effort to be there. I think I was handed the form along with the rest of my enrollment forms. The only requirement was that you were enrolled as a full-time student.
Maybe it was a regional thing, but it did not work that way everywhere by 1969, maybe even earlier. Didn’t always matter who you knew either.
National law. Only reason to get drafted out of school was failing out of school or failing to apply for the deferment.
She is an idiot.
Fat squint.
Blue falcons can rise to amazing heights.
Where was this concern when her “buddy” the JEF was running the show? Or when she was working for Shitstaineki?
Just more political kabuki from the D-rats… the party that fucks the military over every chance they get.
Haven’t seen -that- riff in quite a while.
I don’t think I’ve posted that since Lars got himself banned.
Wait, I missed Lars finally getting himself banned? When did that happen?
About the tenth time I warned him about calling us an Alt-Right website.
Bitch.
I’m frigging tired of this shit. He got deferments, he gamed the system. So did tens of thousands of others. We all know that, thousands of poor men that couldn’t get into college died in Vietnam. Did that stop people from electing Clinton? GWB, because he supposedly went AWOL?
This is nothing more than a deflection from the real issue, that there are Democrats and some Republicans that put the ‘needs’ of the few before the needs of the many. This ‘need’ of the few is pure pandering to illegals, and their supporters. Honestly, i don’t give a shit if you were brought here as a child illegally. I don’t care if you were here under some kind of cheezy refugee program that requires you to pay to stay. If you are not here as a legal resident actively pursuing citizenship…get out. How much money is sent back to these shithole countries from the USA? To have our state, local, and Congressional delegations actively support illegals over legal residents and especially citizens is tantamount to Sedition in my eyes.
Atkron, beautifully put!
My older brother— who was expected, and eager to follow family tradition of service— was turned away b|c of bone spurs.
He even tried to bribe the doctor rather than (in his mind) have the shame of being the first eldest male in our family since before the Revolutionary War that did not serve our country nor saw combat.
The bribe offer did not go over well… not at the time with the doctor, nor later when Dad came home on leave and found out.
GWB “went AWOL” (absent without leave). I see you have been drinkin’ the proggie Kool-ade. Anyone who actually served in the reserve components knows that is a lie. When a reservist is not on active duty you do not need to go on “leave.” In fact people in reserve components not on AD don’t even accrue leave, period. Missing a unit training/drill weekend is not being AWOL, moron. I wish I had a dollar for every time someone in one of my reserve or national guard units missed a weekend drill for some reason. And no we didn’t report them as AWOL, which was an actual impossibility. In Bush’s case, he did not attend drills because he was participating in a political campaign and had already completed his required service obligation anyway. Technically, he had accumulated all the points required. I guess you have been reading the proven fraudulent documents that got Dan Blather fired from CBS News.
Add to that that his unit was transitioning to a new aircraft which they could not, by law, train him to fly because his enlistment was almost up – you cannot spend $$ to train someone when those training $$ can never be recovered by future service using that training.
Since GWB was an officer he did not have a term of enlistment. He had an obligation to serve up to six months (I believe on AD) and four and a half years thereafter in the reserve or guard(I could be wrong about the total obligation). Because of his flight training he served more than a year on AD, maybe two. Then he returned to his TANG unit to drill on weekends, etc. Pilots can fly on other than weekend drills to maintain proficiency. He had more time than needed to fully serve is obligation. You are correct that before the end of his service obligation GWB’s unit had no use for him as a pilot because it was transitioning to the F-106 and the unit and USAF would not pay to train him to fly an airplane he would not be flying because his obligation was almost complete.
Yes, of course, on the use of “obligation” vs “enlistment.” Don’t remember the length of the obligation at that time – was thinking it was 6 years total for pilots but could easily be misremembering that detail.
The AD for ANG members back then was entirely too complicated to try to briefly describe it.
No, I haven’t been drinking any Kool-Aid…just bringing the Left’s argument to the table. Regardless if they were wrong or not, they made the argument.
I am merely pointing out this whole he dodged, he didn’t is a bullshit argument, being used as a deflection.
Point taken.
Duckworth’s first priority is herself. Everything else is secondary.
There, fixed that for you.
Respect for her service and what she went through as a wounded warrior. Respect for her berating Braulio Castillo who was gaming the VA disability system. BUT, that’s where it ends. The day she joined the Lurch Kerry/John Murtha Semper I program is the day I lost any respect for her as a person. Ms. Duckworth, you took a steaming dump on your brothers and sisters still in uniform the instant you put the interests of illegals ahead of Americans and those who are here legally. You need to get your head right, because right now you are a politician and a politician ranks below the piano player in a bordello – at least the piano player can be entertaining.
Preach it, Brother!
Since we’re discussing blue falcon twatwaffles, I’ll leave this bit of happy news.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/21/chelsea-manning-senate-run-illegal/
As much as I’d like to see Bradley prosecuted for this. I don’t think they will, but I wish they would…
“Manning’s main political positions include closing down all prisons, providing free health care and opening U.S. borders to all immigrants.”
That is one mixed up dude.
Well, he technically isn’t a TWATwaffle yet. Don’t think he has had his pecker bobbed yet. Sure makes a humble looking broad.
Wannabe twatwaffle then.
Good catch. For those not wanting to read the article, Manning remains on active duty while his appeal is pending. Thus, it has run afoul of the prohibition regarding political office and the military. Mattis is reported to alone have the power to grant it an exception. Vegas posts 1-9 he won’t.
Pronoun error. In line two, “his” should have been “its.”
City-state of Chicago (aka Illinois) senator. Where Republicans politicians can be mistaken for NY or MA Leftists and the Democratic politicians would fit well in the Politburo.
Hell, Chicongo D-rats are at least six steps to the left of Lenin and Stalin!
is that loudmouthed liberal unaccountable whore cow still talking?
stfu, backwarts, and do your fucking job. what shit do they have on you, senator birdshit? what party did you attend and get pictures taken of you in a compromising position? please, tell me that’s what happened. i want to know what made you go from losing your legs to serve your fellow comrades and protect your fellow americans to lying, stealing, cheating from us then bailing on your duties.
you are a sorry excuse for a sister veteran. i don’t know what the fuck they taught you in ocs (or whatever the hell you went thru) but, they sure as fuck didn’t teach you THIS SHIT. you are appearing to be nothing but a party loyal typical biased political con artist slinging horseshit at someone not in the democratic party.
as my dear departed mother use to say,” fuck you and the horse you rode in on.”
Gee whiz, don’t hold back!
Just take a deep breath and tell us how you really feel!
LOL!!
Fire for Effect, Sister! 😛
Sing it loud!
Don’t mince words … what do you REALLY think?
I still recall how she sneered at the concept of outside care for vets as though it was a ploy by the other party.
She has her care, so IMO she is the epitome of
“I got mine, and you? Not so much but who cares” attitude of so many of Congressional members.
I am not saying she should not have care, I am saying they forget.
There was a story on Frontline of a disabled Iraq vet, w/c, who was having to drive 2 hours, one way, for care……and he was also taking care of his Vietnam vet father, also disabled.
I guess for Duckworth
(respect begets respect so I will call her Duckworth not senator)
feels they need to just suck it up.
Finally, shutting down the government to kowtow to ILLEGALS is a Schumer thing. The dimwits want Trump to do same as Reagan did when dimwits handed him the same sob story about ‘undocumented’.
They are unable to differentiate between LEGAL and ILLEGAL immigration.
I’d hit it.
I bet you wouldn’t even use a paper bag when you did!
nope
Don’t bother. She’s pregnant again. Announced it on the news last night.
I think it’s time she stayed home and took the Mom role, but that’s asking too much of her fer sure, isn’t it?
preggers, lol…wouldn’t be a first for meh
Brother … you need counseling.
DIBS ON sloppy seconds if you do!
one more and we can make her airtight 🙂
I wouldn’t be a true Squid if i didn’t throw my hat in the ring.
Gentlemen, we have an accord. I’ll go get the industrial magnet, stand by.
Only if you are a Boatswain’s Mate…
IME…a Sailor or Marine will pretty much fukk anything, but a Soldier will marry it.:)
I wish for Tammy Duckworth to simultaneously have a case of the shits and sneezing fits the next time she holds a press conference.
Only if none of us is in the room…
I once managed to fart and belch at the same time. Massive decompression. That was bad enough. API’s suggestion would be tremunguously messy and smelly.