Tammy Duckworth for US Senate [View All]

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Obama has just resigned his Senate seat (thought I wish he had kept it
for a few weeks longer in case of critical votes), which means the
Democratic governor of Illinois appoints a successor to serve out his term.

I heard that Tammy Duckworth might be interested. Although there has been
some negative press about her, I still liked her and was impressed by her
guts to stick in there after losing her legs when her helicopter crashed
after being shot down in Iraq. Her appointment would also be an in-your-face
appointment to some of the chicken-hawk Republicans in COngress, such as
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia (if he survives the runoff) and John Cornyn, the
shame of my own Texas. Let them tell her to her face on the Senate floor about
"cut-and-run" Democrats when both of them shirked military service and she left
her lower body on the battlefield.

She incidentally also happens to be quite a bright lady.