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What's The Dumbest Thing You Could Say To A Congresswoman Who Lost Her Legs In Battle? Um, THIS.
Adam Mordecai Adam Mordecai
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.
http://www.upworthy.com/whats-the-worst-thing-you-could-say-to-a-congresswoman-who-lost-her-legs-in-battle-found-it
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)OK. Tammy Duckworth for President!
Probably the best direct smack-down I've ever seen. VERY much worth watching until the end.
Demonaut
(8,953 posts)elleng
(131,758 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)He actually sounded sincere. I believe Darrell Issa belongs in prison, but what he said to Rep. Duckworth was appropriate and respectful.
I agree, Tammy Duckworth has the right stuff.
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,949 posts)He "served our country"
People like that make be sick - I love Rep. Duckworth - good questions!!!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Raven
(13,920 posts)as restrained as she was. Class act, that woman!
Skittles
(153,523 posts)hey, it's RAVEN! How you been, girl?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)of the law." "I apologize for going over my time."
To which Issa The Inquisitor blustered his reply: "Well, I thank you, I think the time was well used....hrrmmmph....BENGAHZI!"
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)She is one of my heroes.
jsr
(7,712 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I have a lot of Deaf friends who would want to know what's being said.
If I knew how to post an embedded vid of myself interpreting, I would.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Instruct your friends to go to the YouTube page and click the CC icon. They'll be instructed to turn it on and voila! you have a transcript at the bottom of the video.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I tried the CC first
.no captions.
rats. Will have to do that when I get time
.maybe this evening.
don't let me forget!!
on point
(2,506 posts)ybbor
(1,560 posts)She still does a great job of showing him what a "W" he is.
It made me think of a joke posted the other day by coyotl:
George H. W. Bush walks into a bar and says, "Son, pour me your best scotch."
Bartender replies, "No way."
Pissed off, Bush finds the manager and bitches.
Manager confronts the bartender in private and returns,
"Sorry, Mr. President, but you called him 'Son' didn't you?"
Exasperated, Bush shouts, "What the fuck does that have to do with anything?"
Manager replies, "Everybody knows that any son of yours don't have to serve."
ashling
(25,771 posts)nobody said this was breaking news ... and just because it is "old" does not mean that it is not noteworthy.
It might have been nice - and certainly more helpful - to indicate that this happened at a hearing last year and that it was lauded widely at the time here on DU.
Simply saying "old news" comes across as rather pompous
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)apologizers and deflectors in the mass media.
ashling
(25,771 posts)I was saying that the fact that it happened last year does not make it any less noteworthy.
I think it is disrespectful to merely pass an incident of this nature off as "old news"
If you want to give it some context, fine, but otherwise . . .
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)on point
(2,506 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)but it's the first time I've seen it. This isn't LBN.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)The points she raised at that hearing are pretty much current.
mopinko
(70,533 posts)yeah, she represents a purple district. she takes that seriously.
but i would be a afraid to have a drink with her. she does not really fuck around.
Ilsa
(61,722 posts)talked about filing for disability sees this, though I doubt she will. She never was overseas, but working a desk job, when she got into it with her CO. It was ugly enough, (she was pushed) but she said she could get disability for it. She's such a hypocrite because she Deplores the 47% she says are takers (remember Rmoney's 2012 comment).
I'm not going to send it to her. I don't want any contact with her for other reasons.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Tammy Duckworth's wonderfully brutal takedown of this monster and Issa actually acting human.
brooklynite
(95,308 posts)amb123
(1,581 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)a glass of ice water and a cigarette!
2naSalit
(87,234 posts)I truly love about this woman!!!
I wish that a majority of our Congress people were as honest and forthright as she is!!
packman
(16,296 posts)BUT - full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Looked up on Google to see what came of it, and sadly nothing as far as I can see. Guy probably still is raking in the money with his twisted ankle disability and Vets are still suffering from the backlog of disability claims.
madokie
(51,076 posts)She is so right. Not once did she even mention the loss of her legs only the phantom pains she endures.
If she did I missed it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Plus the fact that he is rated 30% for his prep school football injury while Tammy Duckworth is rated 20% for her arm that was blown off in combat and reattached.
madokie
(51,076 posts)and stick it square up his sorry ass
Tammy makes me proud
bro'
another thing that makes me proud is us Democrats align ourselves with quality people.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The guy isn't worth Tammy's little fingernail, to use an old Vietnamese expression.
Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)That has to do with who ran the deal thew.