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Undaunted: Tammy Duckworth fights for America -- Jennifer Rubin
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-tammy-duckworth-fightsWe honor her for denouncing MAGA bullying, incompetence, and Democratic spinelessness--while exhibiting unceasing resilience and integrity
Few people in public life have given as much for her country as Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.).
Her Senate biography matter-of-factly states: “In 2004, Duckworth was deployed to Iraq as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot for the Illinois Army National Guard. On November 12, 2004, her helicopter was hit by an RPG and she lost her legs and partial use of her right arm.” She thereupon became an advocate for veterans, then Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, and in 2009, Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Currently in her second term, she exhibits a level voice of clarity in a cacophonous Senate, exhibiting a steel spine amidst a government body of wet noodles.
Unlike Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and her fellow Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, she refused to cave on the continuing resolution. This week she told a local TV station: “I was furious with Leader Schumer, and I told him we needed to go and fight. I could not disagree with Leader Schumer more.”
She continued: “We should have stood up to the Republicans. It was a minority of Democrats who voted for it. I am appalled that we basically gave Donald Trump permission to continue to raid government.” Now there is a leader.
At the time she posted on social media:
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Her Senate biography matter-of-factly states: “In 2004, Duckworth was deployed to Iraq as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot for the Illinois Army National Guard. On November 12, 2004, her helicopter was hit by an RPG and she lost her legs and partial use of her right arm.” She thereupon became an advocate for veterans, then Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, and in 2009, Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Currently in her second term, she exhibits a level voice of clarity in a cacophonous Senate, exhibiting a steel spine amidst a government body of wet noodles.
Unlike Minority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and her fellow Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, she refused to cave on the continuing resolution. This week she told a local TV station: “I was furious with Leader Schumer, and I told him we needed to go and fight. I could not disagree with Leader Schumer more.”
She continued: “We should have stood up to the Republicans. It was a minority of Democrats who voted for it. I am appalled that we basically gave Donald Trump permission to continue to raid government.” Now there is a leader.
At the time she posted on social media:
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