Posted on 12/15/2009 7:24:59 AM PST by SonnyBubba
WASHINGTON, D.C (WSFA) - A U.S. Senator from Washington state is drawing heat from numerous Alabama representatives after a morning radio interview took aim at Alabama's workforce.
Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) was interviewed Monday morning on NPR's "All Things Considered" program in regards to the contentious Pentagon contract for a new fleet of refueling tankers.
"I have stood on the line in Everett, Washington," she told NPR," where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody build anything."
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“What a nitwit she must be.”
Nailed it!! She believes the economy benefits more from people standing on a picket line than on a production line.
We here in the Peoples’ Republic of Washington are a sort of California-lite. Instead of Boxer-Feinstein, we have Cantwell-Murray.
This Gator would love to go up to Patty and tell her “Roll Tide”. (Or for you Auburn fans, “War Damn Eagle!”)
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