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Home Front: Politix

Tammy Duckworth is a Weinerhead

2023-09-03

[RedState] Sen. Tammy Duckworth

...the Chinese-American child of a military family, she lost both legs when the helicopter she was in the right seat of in Iraq was shot down by jihadis, making her the first female double amputee of the second Iraq war. She then served in the Illinois National Guard as a Lieutenant Colonel while working for the state and federal governments until she ran for Congress in 2012, where she has been (first as Representative, then as junior Senator from Illinois) ever since,. She was interested to be Joe Biden’s woman-of-colour VP for the 2020 campaign, but apparently Asian wasn’t the new Black — still, she’s now on his re-election team, which has to be good for something....

let it be now that she would block a plan put forth by Sen. Rick Scott to provide aid for the Maui fires and Hurricane Idalia because it doesn't include Joe Biden's demand for another $23 billion for Ukraine.

No matter how one may feel about continuing to fund Ukraine's war effort against Russia, this is completely asinine. There is no reason to have aid for a foreign country tied to a bill funding disaster relief for suffering Americans. Those two things are not remotely related, and it is simply an attempt to blackmail Republicans who might oppose sending more money to Ukraine into doing so.

You scratch the Big Guy’s back, we’ll scratch yours. Oddly enough, Hawaii is a deep blue state, unlike Florida.

By joining the two issues in one bill, it forces Senators and House members into a dichotomy whereby if they vote to help Americans, they must also vote to fund Ukraine lest no aid be rendered domestically at all. These are the kinds of inside-the-beltway games that people are sick and tired of. It is not controversial to let a vote on aid for Americans simply be a vote on aid for Americans.

That is how things should be. That's what "regular order" looks like. Trying to shoehorn Ukrainian aid into the same bill is a transparent ploy, and it's yet another abuse of the system.

Here's how Scott responded to Duckworth's threat.

"It’s unbelievable that anyone in Washington would try to delay the delivery of disaster aid to American families fighting to get back on their feet," he said. "This helps Florida, Hawaii, California ... ALL AMERICANS. Americans should ALWAYS come first."

Posted by:Deacon Blues

#2 re ^^^^ Nah, sounds too much like MAGA. /sarc

Posted by: AlanC 2023-09-03 10:57

#1 Americans should ALWAYS come first

Yes.

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-03 07:57

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