{"id":56509,"date":"2014-11-17T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T22:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56509"},"modified":"2014-11-17T17:49:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T22:49:20","slug":"pelosis-war-on-duckworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56509","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi’s war on Duckworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me begin by saying that I’m no fan of Tammy Duckworth. Although I respect her for her service and sacrifice for this country, she’s done nothing that benefits veterans, despite the fact that she worked in positions of leadership at the Veterans’ Affairs Departments of both Illinois and in DC. She has been better at feathering her own nest than making veterans’ lives more comfortable. <\/p>\n

Having said that, she’s getting caught up in the actual war against women that the Democrat party is waging. Ms. Duckworth is an amputee and simultaneously she happens to be eight months pregnant and her doctor has recommended that she doesn’t travel back to DC in time for the Congressional leadership votes this Fall. So she applied for approval from her party leadership to submit proxy votes. Unfortunately for her, her party leadership is Nancy Pelosi;<\/p>\n

Duckworth wrote a letter to the Democratic Caucus, but her request was denied by Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.).<\/p>\n

“Congresswoman DeLauro does not want to set a precedent. There are many meritorious situations where the argument could be made for a waiver, including Congresswoman Duckworth’s. The question is, how do you choose?” said DeLauro’s spokeswoman Sara Lonardo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Fox News<\/a>, the dispute stems from the appointment for the Ranking member seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee. Pelosi wants Anna Eshoo of California in the position and Duckworth is supporting Frank Pallone of New Jersey, so Pelosi and DeLauro decided that Duckworth can’t vote against their guy or gal or whatever people from California consider themselves.<\/p>\n

Can you even imagine the stink if it was the Republican Party who did this to a pregnant woman who is also a disabled Iraq veteran? When I broke my ankle, my office in the Federal government made changes so that I could work from home. When I got the ALS, they did the same thing when it became difficult for me to get to the office. But, I guess the Democrat Party doesn’t adhere to the practices that they force on the rest of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me begin by saying that I’m no fan of Tammy Duckworth. Although I respect her … Pelosi’s war on Duckworth<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}