Bam! Tammy Duckworth Goes To Town!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

Please watch all 8 minutes, but if you want to really get juicy, at least go to the 4:30 mark. Whoa!

http://www.upworthy.com/whats-the-worst-thing-you-could-say-to-a-congresswoman-who-lost-her-legs-in-battle-found-it?c=la3

Abstract:

An IRS contractor named Braulio Castillo hurt his foot playing football in military prep school. He never served in the actual military. Then one day, decades later, he used it to get preferred treatment in government contracts. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who lost both her legs and still could lose her arm from combat injuries, felt that this might just be a touch inappropriate. It gets amazing around 4:30.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. I guess this will get drowned out by the million or so Zimmerman threads.

Oh, well.

[DURHAM D]

6. This has been posted multiple times already.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. Didn't realize that.

[postulater]

2. We need a couple hundred like her.

Issa's response at the end is classic.

"Time well spent."

[Fantastic Anarchist]

4. Yeah, Issa really couldn't have said anything else, eh?

If I were the guy being grilled by Ms. Duckworth, I would have asked if I could just excuse myself to go pee, and never returned.

That was brutal.

[RudynJack]

25. I think I would've

peed my pants right there.

[NV Whino]

3. That guy looked like he wanted crawl under the table

Good for Tammy!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. He might very well need Vet Benefits after that!

He was virtually destroyed.

[NV Whino]

8. Oh yeah

[DreamGypsy]

7. Eviscerates. Yup...

e·vis·cer·ate

[v. ih-vis-uh-reyt; adj. ih-vis-er-it, -uh-reyt] Show IPA verb, e·vis·cer·at·ed, e·vis·cer·at·ing, adjective
verb (used with object)
1. to remove the entrails from; disembowel: to eviscerate a chicken.

A detail from the Huff Post article: Tammy Duckworth Eviscerates Contractor Who Claimed Veterans Disability :

Castillo cited his foot injury, suffered at a military prep school, as the basis for his IT company's application for special status as a "service-disabled veteran-owned small business." The application was granted, and his company, Strong Castle, was given preferential treatment in federal contract bids.

<snip>

"I'm sorry that twisting your ankle in high school has now come back to hurt you in such a painful way, if also opportune for you to gain this status for your business," she (Tammy) added.

Over a six-month period in 2012, Strong Castle won contracts with the Internal Revenue Service worth as much as $500 million. Wednesday's hearing followed a damning report that detailed how a senior IRS agent helped Castillo win the government business. The IRS agent in question, Greg Roseman, was dismissed from the hearing after he exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

I am loving the dynamic that our new Congresswomen bring to the debate. Go ladies!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

10. With respect to Grayson and Sanders ...

... the women are really kicking some fucking ass.

Need more like them.

[Scuba]

11. K&R

[OneGrassRoot]

12. By the looks of his twitter feed, he's religious.

https://twitter.com/braulimcastillo

Lots of bible study posts.

What a friggin hypocrite.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. I don't understand that.

If he's truly religious, doesn't he know he's going to hell? That would be a huge deterrent to me.

[OneGrassRoot]

17. Evidently lying within a capitalist construct is okay.

That's the only thing I can figure. If you're lying to get money and take advantage of the system, it seems to be okay.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

18. If I believed in pits that will make me hot eternally ...

... I wouldn't even take a chance.

[OneGrassRoot]

19. word n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

21. Actually...

What I have observed with thumper types is that they feel they can do or say anything -- even if it's a sin -- because so long as they have "accepted Jesus Christ" as their savior, they feel all is well.

They freely and proudly admit that "we're all sinners." With that attitude, they don't have much incentive to stop sinning as I see it.

It's really fucked up, to be perfectly blunt. IMHO, that is.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

28. So, are they unbelievers or believers?

That's what confuses me.

[KharmaTrain]

14. That's My Congresswoman!!!

...a far cry from the asshat Joe Walsh...

[Fantastic Anarchist]

16. You'd think he'd have a sense of shame, right?

I don't get it with these people.

[KharmaTrain]

20. The Irony...

...these scumbags are the first to scream about those in need "living off the government teat".

Tammy just exposed a little corner of the corporate welfare system...people who find ways to suck off the government. Military contracting is rife with grifters...

Cheers...

[Fantastic Anarchist]

22. I thought that was a great point, by the way.

It's a microcosm of government in general. When corporations grift the system, not a word is uttered, but if one person does, let's throw the baby out with the bath water.

I always make this point in discussion.

"Both are bad. Hundreds of dollars, or billions of dollars? Which one we goin' after?"

[KharmaTrain]

23. And How Oversight Should Be Done...

...far better than a Joe Barton apologizing to the oil companies or a bunch of congresscritters fawning over the Apple CEO. The corruption of our political system has given a free pass to a lot of connected grifters who kick back money to their bought-off congresscritters.

This poor schmuck didn't expect this or know what truck hit him

This does point out the serious need to get the rushpublicans out of control of the House...let's focus on cutting the corporate welfare system, not the social safety net...

[Fantastic Anarchist]

24. Absolutely down for that.

And yeah, you almost want to pity the fucker, eh?

[KharmaTrain]

26. I Forgot This...

I'm hoping this scumbag has the decency to give back the money he's grifted...and that his activities get a good lookover by the DOJ...I have zero tolerance for chickenhawks and chickenshits. This dude qualifies for both...

[Fantastic Anarchist]

27. He's going to get his.

He's not too big to fail.

[lonestarnot]

15. That was delicious!

[Are_grits_groceries]

29. Now that was

a Come To Jesus moment for the ages.