As soon as Tammy Duckworth got out of rehab in 2006 or 2005, she was instantly glommed onto by Dick Durbin and Rahm Emmanuel. They ran her in a conservative GOP CD in Chicagoland in 2006, I think it was. She almost won. As consolation prize, Obama put her at the VA (good idea), and then Durbin the Turban and the boyz ran her again last fall in another district that had been gerrymandered to get rid of a Tea Party Republican, and she won. Now she's a prize heifer in the New Dem Party ..... which makes me think she's probably gay to boot. No husband, no guy in her life, she was an Illinois National Guard Blackhawk driver and a captain when she got hit near the end of 2004 in Iraq. She's a double amputee, super attitude, good trooper, and now she's in Congress.
Just sorry to see Durbin the Turbin and The Impostor doing better for Iraq War vets than the GOP's perfumed princes.
None of which, he quickly added, reflects so much as a mote of dust on Pres. George W. Bush, who has been tireless in his devotion to veterans, disabled veterans particularly, and veterans' affairs.
If Barky had a pair somewhere, he'd appoint Dubya to the VA.