Posted on 12/15/2014 10:12:18 PM PST by entropy12
Murthy, 37, a physician at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, won confirmation on a 51-43 vote. He's a co-founder of Doctors for America, a group that has pushed for affordable health care and supports Obama's health care law.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said most of Murthy's career has been spent as an activist focused on gun control and other political issues, rather than on treating patients. "Americans don't want a surgeon general who might use this position of trust to promote his own personal campaign against the Second Amendment of the Constitution," Barrasso said.
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Indian (as in Indja) wins lottery. Docs against Glocks gains major foothold in war on guns. This assclown could do a lot of damage in the next two years.
wimps!
Barely won nomination with 51 votes. WOuld have failed with the new senate coming in January. 3 democrat senators voted NO!
The Surgeon General only has so much power. He has a most grand looking bully pulpit, that being as a White House appointee, but the country still has to be ready to move along with any pushy suggestions.
In contrast to Jocelyn Elders, who encouraged shooting.
Frankly I have no idea why so many people care what doctors think. A huge percentage of them are incompetent. Their opinions on anything outside of how to set broken bones have no more validity than that of a fry cook. If anything they make troubled people worse than ever via pharmacology. The SG office should be shut down.
Isn’t the Indian lottery when you scratch off 3 dots and win a 7-11.
Is it 3? I coulda sworn it was only 1. Yeah, we’re bein’ bad. Sorry folks. Sometimes it just happens. :>}
Another moonbat, and this one a snot-nosed kid to boot.
Another activist, foreign-born ‘person of color’ in the Obola ranks. It’s like watching maggots feasting on putrid meat. Nothing to see here, folks, move along.......
Until you realize the democrat party is going to force gun control on the masses in perpetuity. I and others fought gun control in my state in the early 80’s. Sarah Brady still wishes she didn’t come to my hometown talking her bs.
My boys gave her a grand experience. I don’t think she ever showed her face in public again. That was before the age of fluoride in the water system though, the last holdouts.
Oh and I'm sure some of you will slam me for bring up that fact....but that stunt gave them a opening....and all they need was a slight one.
I know this will mark me....but hey I couldn't bite my tongue any longer.
Opening the floodgates to 3rd world "primary care providers" who have a limited command of English and even less knowledge of medicine? Willing instruments of implementation, whose definitions and perceptions of health care are in line with the regime.
Ethical, competent doctors will not be able to abide by "treatment plans" dictated by an anonymous, clueless, capricious, stupid, and unaccountable system. Obamadocs won't have that sort of problem.
Educate yourself. Cruz had nothing to do with this.
Bad chess move. Can’t damn his intentions. A learning experience for a great young senator who puts it out there. Not like a young senator Bamma who voted “present” Cruz will get it out of his system BEFORE his election to the Oval Office.
LOL, well said.
Reid killed the Nuclear Option this tear to RAM Thru Every Single Crazy Radical the Far Left Demanded!
You Have Some Nerve Pushing This Lie Here!
You should be removed from this site this Lie ! Troll somewhere else.
Concerned Paulbot Frauds posting !
You frauds .
The Nuclear option been killed off for awhile.
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