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kpete

(71,900 posts)
Sun May 25, 2014, 10:55 PM May 2014

Veterans Groups Completely Unload On GOP Senator

Veterans Groups Rip Into Sen. Richard Burr For Questioning Their Priorities

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Burr accused the groups (with the exception of the American Legion) of being more invested in maintaining access to the secretary than with fixing a troubled health care system. He questioned why they haven't called for a leadership change at the VA, and pointedly charged the groups’ leaders with not caring about the health and well-being of their members.

Burr’s letter was in response to the testimony that Shinseki and seven of these veteran service organizations (VSO) had given before his committee the week prior, concerning revelations and allegations of long wait times, bureaucratic malfeasance and insufficient care at the VA.

Not surprisingly, leaders at the veterans groups Burr named were not pleased with the letter.

In their own letter, Veterans of Foreign Wars responded to Burr by calling his letter a “monumental cheap-shot” and labeling it “one of the most dishonorable and grossly inappropriate acts that we’ve witnessed in more than forty years of involvement with the veteran community.” If the tone wasn’t clear, the group added that Burr’s conduct and allegations were “ugly and mean-spirited in every sense of the words and profoundly wrong, both logically and morally,” in addition to breaching “the standards of the United States Senate.”



http://www.scribd.com/doc/226021691/VWF
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Veterans Groups Completely Unload On GOP Senator (Original Post) kpete May 2014 OP
As a Vet, that is a totally cool letter/start. Hand the bastard his balls. Katashi_itto May 2014 #1
Burr is skewered, cooking on the pit, Ilsa May 2014 #2
Burr, of course, is NOT a veteran KinMd May 2014 #3
They never are. That's a privilege of being of the 1%, never having to actually SERVE. They get away blkmusclmachine May 2014 #12
k&r thanks for posting. nm rhett o rick May 2014 #4
K&R! burrowowl May 2014 #5
Wow Egnever May 2014 #6
Are Republican politicians really that stupid? Stainless May 2014 #7
Don't underestimate the DC DEMS willingness to throw the GOP life preservers. After all, can't upset blkmusclmachine May 2014 #14
! DeSwiss May 2014 #17
Brilliant. I think I would have liked at least one "you can't handle the truth" lolz. Senator Burr okaawhatever May 2014 #8
Well written.... Wounded Bear May 2014 #9
Good for the VFW. Terra Alta May 2014 #10
Burr's comments rank right up there with the ass who confronted Tammy Duckworth... Hekate May 2014 #11
+1 freshwest May 2014 #15
A tear to my eye. Half-Century Man May 2014 #13
Although I would have been satisfied with a big, fat, sloppy, oozy, ugly one, too. calimary May 2014 #16
This line: bpollen May 2014 #18
Smackdown! Well done. Scuba May 2014 #19
and I bet Senator Burr is one of those phony people who thanks us vets for B Calm May 2014 #20
Awesome, great stuff. MannyGoldstein May 2014 #21
K&R white cloud May 2014 #22
Good. k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth May 2014 #23
 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
12. They never are. That's a privilege of being of the 1%, never having to actually SERVE. They get away
Mon May 26, 2014, 12:29 AM
May 2014

with just wearing flag pins in the lapels of their $2,500 Armani suits. And the Republican voters just lap it up!

Stainless

(717 posts)
7. Are Republican politicians really that stupid?
Mon May 26, 2014, 12:04 AM
May 2014

Do they seriously think that Veterans don't know that the Republican controlled congress has been cutting funding and undermining the VA for years now?

I sense that the wheels are starting to come off the Clown Car that is the Republican Party! I'm really enjoying watching Republican politicians step in their own shit.

 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
14. Don't underestimate the DC DEMS willingness to throw the GOP life preservers. After all, can't upset
Mon May 26, 2014, 12:34 AM
May 2014

the 1% Washington apple cart by inflicting any real change to the status quo, now, can we?!?!

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
17. !
Mon May 26, 2014, 01:35 AM
May 2014
"I know nothing that I may say can influence you," he said. "You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There is no Republican Party. There is no Democratic Party. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-spittlers and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy. You talk verbosely in antiquated terminology of your love of liberty, and all the while you wear the scarlet livery of the Iron Heel."

The Iron Heel by Jack London, 1908
Project Gutenberg

okaawhatever

(9,453 posts)
8. Brilliant. I think I would have liked at least one "you can't handle the truth" lolz. Senator Burr
Mon May 26, 2014, 12:08 AM
May 2014

that thing in the VFW's outstretched hands is your ass. You should probably take it and then apologize.

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
9. Well written....
Mon May 26, 2014, 12:13 AM
May 2014

Spread the word about any Congresscritter who uses this as a political football. Tell them to STFU and vote for Vets benefits if they want our votes.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
11. Burr's comments rank right up there with the ass who confronted Tammy Duckworth...
Mon May 26, 2014, 12:25 AM
May 2014

"I just don’t know where her loyalties lie": Allen West.
( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/allen-west-tammy-duckworth_n_5375138.html )

It's as despicable, in its way, as the way Max Cleland was treated by Saxby Chambliss. Loss of limb is no proof of heroism or loyalty to the US to that kind of GOPer.

How much is enough? I suspect that for them the only good veteran is a silent veteran. Even better if said veterans are actually dead -- they're no trouble then, they make no demands on the system, they need not trouble the conscience (such as it is) of the uber-patriots of the Right Wing.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
16. Although I would have been satisfied with a big, fat, sloppy, oozy, ugly one, too.
Mon May 26, 2014, 01:16 AM
May 2014

The GOP doesn't deserve beautiful. At least not til they reform their anti-social money-grubbing short-sighted behavior and their policies, that is.

bpollen

(110 posts)
18. This line:
Mon May 26, 2014, 02:27 AM
May 2014

"We don't act in hopes of grabbing a headline or securing an interview on cable news; our only agenda in this is to ensure the veterans of our nation receive timely and adequate healthcare."

After they kicked his ass, that line is when they bitch-slapped him.

Way to go, guys!

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