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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Washington Post<\/a> 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;<\/p>\n \u201cDoes he even know that there are service members who are in harm\u2019s way right now, watching him, looking for their commander in chief to show leadership, rather than to try to deflect blame?\u201d Duckworth said. \u201cOr 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?\u201d<\/p>\n The junior senator from Illinois said Trump\u2019s attempts to pin the shutdown on Democrats, especially by using the military, were examples of the president failing to take responsibility.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent my entire adult life looking out for the well-being, the training, the equipping of the troops for whom I was responsible,\u201d Duckworth continued. \u201cSadly, this is something the current occupant of the Oval Office does not seem to care to do \u2014 and I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger.\u201d<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I have a message for \u2018Cadet Bone Spurs,\u2019 \u201d Duckworth said. \u201cIf you cared about our military, you\u2019d stop baiting Kim Jong Un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops, and millions of innocent civilians, in danger.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n