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Chris Knight's avatar

Longtime readers of this blog know that I don’t play the partisan game.  And I haven’t bought into the “conservative/liberal” mentality for a very long time.  Regardless of affiliation, we should expect all of our elected officials to put the Constitution and liberty of the American people ahead of their political agendas.

Richard Burr, North Carolina, Senate, Senator, ObamaCare
Senator Richard Burr
(North Carolina): Part
of the problem in D.C.

That being said, North Carolina’s Senator Richard Burr is now shown be a bitter disappointment.  Burr is choosing capitulation over leadership, and what is easy over what is right.

From the article at The Hill…

Blocking a government funding bill over ObamaCare is “the dumbest
idea I’ve ever heard,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Thursday.

Burr
argued stopping ObamaCare’s funding is not going to be achievable as
long as President Obama is in the White House, and that Republicans
risked taking the blame if they

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Chris Knight's avatar

“Leaders at all levels seek power ahead of justice”.

I won’t quote the entire letter here but this part of it warrants special mention:

I live in Rockingham County. For months I’ve watched elected officials in my own backyard trample on the Constitution: from a school board member suing citizens for practicing the right to petition, to a city council banning new churches.

I’ll give you three guesses who is being referred to here 😛...

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