Brian4Liberty
01-06-2016, 05:49 PM
Richard Burr Is a Walking (Dead) Billboard For Term Limits (http://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/richard-burr-is-a-walking-dead-billboard-for-term-limits)
By: Matt Kibbe | January 6th, 2016
In each of the past five years of his second term as a U.S. Senator, Richard Burr has seen his FreedomWorks rating fall, going from a respectable 86% in 2010 to a failing grade of 53% in 2015. Burr’s lifetime Liberty Score at Conservative Review is worse still: an “F” or 43%.
How is this possible? The answer, of course, is that Richard Burr has been in Washington too long. Burr has held federal office since 1995, having been elected to the House of Representatives in the first wave of the Republican revolution. He is currently serving the 5th year of his second term.
Senator Richard Burr is a walking, talking, Washington has him now, public service announcement for the dire need for term limits on members of Congress. He has “grown in office,” as they say. He has become a creature of Washington, a member of the club, and a reliable advocate for inside-the-Beltway interests that feed at the trough of big government.
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Burr has been a reliable opponent of any effort to use the constitutionally-provided “power of the purse” to slow President Obama’s numerous Executive power grabs.
There is plenty of evidence that Richard Burr has been “infected” by the Beltway disease. Let me give you just a few recent bites:
- Burr sided with crony capitalists and D.C. lobbyists in protecting the Export-Import Bank from a broad effort by fiscal conservatives in the House to defund it. ...
- Burr aggressively opposed efforts to defund Obamacare, calling Senator Mike Lee’s proposal to pass a CR that would continue funding government functions except for monies used to implement the president’s disastrous healthcare redesign “…the dumbest idea I've ever heard of." Indeed, Burr has been a reliable opponent of any effort to use the constitutionally-provided “power of the purse” to slow President Obama’s numerous Executive power grabs. ...
- Burr conspired with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bury the controversial CISA cyber spying legislation in December’s massive $1.1 trillion omnibus, a monstrosity that no member of congress could possibly have read. ...
Dr. Greg Brannon, an OBGYN from Cary, North Carolina, recently announced that he would challenge sitting Senator Richard Burr in the 2016 Republican primary. ...
In 2014, Brannon ran a spirited campaign against now-Senator Thom Tillis. Among others, Senator Mike Lee, Glenn Beck, Senator Rand Paul, Mark Levin, and Congressman Thomas Massie all endorsed Brannon. (Full disclosure: FreedomWorks also endorsed Brannon in 2014 when I still served as the organization’s president.)
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Why would Dr. Brannon be willing to stand in the line of fire once again? I asked him the question directly, and here’s what he told me:
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But if we don’t stand up and fight to defend the principles that made this country great, we will watch as the American Dream vanishes for future generations. I care deeply about the America we will leave behind for my seven children – and the 9,000 babies I’ve been blessed to deliver.
I’m going to win. The voters in North Carolina are fed up with establishment Republicans like Richard Burr, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham. They're looking for courageous conservatives who will stand up and fight for conservative values. We've received a tremendous amount of support since the launch of this campaign and have received more than 800 grassroots donations in the first week alone. I'm confident that 2016 will be the year North Carolina sends a conservative fighter to the US Senate.
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More: http://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/richard-burr-is-a-walking-dead-billboard-for-term-limits
By: Matt Kibbe | January 6th, 2016
In each of the past five years of his second term as a U.S. Senator, Richard Burr has seen his FreedomWorks rating fall, going from a respectable 86% in 2010 to a failing grade of 53% in 2015. Burr’s lifetime Liberty Score at Conservative Review is worse still: an “F” or 43%.
How is this possible? The answer, of course, is that Richard Burr has been in Washington too long. Burr has held federal office since 1995, having been elected to the House of Representatives in the first wave of the Republican revolution. He is currently serving the 5th year of his second term.
Senator Richard Burr is a walking, talking, Washington has him now, public service announcement for the dire need for term limits on members of Congress. He has “grown in office,” as they say. He has become a creature of Washington, a member of the club, and a reliable advocate for inside-the-Beltway interests that feed at the trough of big government.
...
Burr has been a reliable opponent of any effort to use the constitutionally-provided “power of the purse” to slow President Obama’s numerous Executive power grabs.
There is plenty of evidence that Richard Burr has been “infected” by the Beltway disease. Let me give you just a few recent bites:
- Burr sided with crony capitalists and D.C. lobbyists in protecting the Export-Import Bank from a broad effort by fiscal conservatives in the House to defund it. ...
- Burr aggressively opposed efforts to defund Obamacare, calling Senator Mike Lee’s proposal to pass a CR that would continue funding government functions except for monies used to implement the president’s disastrous healthcare redesign “…the dumbest idea I've ever heard of." Indeed, Burr has been a reliable opponent of any effort to use the constitutionally-provided “power of the purse” to slow President Obama’s numerous Executive power grabs. ...
- Burr conspired with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bury the controversial CISA cyber spying legislation in December’s massive $1.1 trillion omnibus, a monstrosity that no member of congress could possibly have read. ...
Dr. Greg Brannon, an OBGYN from Cary, North Carolina, recently announced that he would challenge sitting Senator Richard Burr in the 2016 Republican primary. ...
In 2014, Brannon ran a spirited campaign against now-Senator Thom Tillis. Among others, Senator Mike Lee, Glenn Beck, Senator Rand Paul, Mark Levin, and Congressman Thomas Massie all endorsed Brannon. (Full disclosure: FreedomWorks also endorsed Brannon in 2014 when I still served as the organization’s president.)
...
Why would Dr. Brannon be willing to stand in the line of fire once again? I asked him the question directly, and here’s what he told me:
...
...
But if we don’t stand up and fight to defend the principles that made this country great, we will watch as the American Dream vanishes for future generations. I care deeply about the America we will leave behind for my seven children – and the 9,000 babies I’ve been blessed to deliver.
I’m going to win. The voters in North Carolina are fed up with establishment Republicans like Richard Burr, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham. They're looking for courageous conservatives who will stand up and fight for conservative values. We've received a tremendous amount of support since the launch of this campaign and have received more than 800 grassroots donations in the first week alone. I'm confident that 2016 will be the year North Carolina sends a conservative fighter to the US Senate.
...
More: http://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/01/richard-burr-is-a-walking-dead-billboard-for-term-limits