allen west is so ignorant and so repulsive his comments about +Rep Tammy Duckworth D IL should be denounced by his employer, fox "news". He is a disgrace, even to fox, and if his supporters and the politicians allied with him (repiglicans & tea-baggers) do not denounce him for questioning Rep Duckworth's loyalty to our nation there is something very wrong with them too. This from +Daily Kos followed by part of Rep Duckworth's bio on +Wikipedia ....
Thu May 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM PDT
Professional dumbass.
When last we heard from Former Congressman Allen West (R-FL-OfCourse) he was hard at work being a horrible human being. I see
he is still at it.
Fox News contributor Allen West questioned the "loyalties"
of decorated veteran and Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth for serving with
her fellow Democrats on the Benghazi select committee. [...]
West remarked of Duckworth: "I just don't know where her loyalties
lie. You know, for her to have been a veteran, a wounded warrior for the
United States Army, she should know that this is not the right thing.
And hopefully, you know, she will remember the oath of office that she
took as an Army officer and not the allegiance I guess she believes she
has to the liberal progressives of the Democrat Party."
Apparently merely being assigned to the committee is all it takes for
combat veteran Tammy Duckworth to have her loyalties questioned by West;
a truly loyal American would shut up and let Republican conspiracy
peddlers say whatever they wanted about dead Americans.
He's all class, that one. I can see why Fox News couldn't bear to be without him.
Originally posted to Hunter on Thu May 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM PDT.
Also republished by
Daily Kos.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician who has been the
U.S. Representative for
Illinois's 8th congressional district since 2013. A
Democrat, she is the first
Asian American woman elected to Congress in
Illinois, the first disabled woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first member of Congress born in
Thailand.
Duckworth previously served as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the
United States Department of Veterans Affairs from April 24, 2009 to June 30, 2011, and as the Director of the
Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs from November 21, 2006 to February 8, 2009.
An
Iraq War veteran, Duckworth served as a
U.S. Army
helicopter pilot and suffered severe combat wounds, losing both of her
legs and damaging her right arm. She was the first female double amputee
from the war.
[1] Having received a medical waiver, she continues to serve as a
Lieutenant Colonel in the
Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey, a
signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran.
[2]
