Richard Burr

Isn't it wonderful to have such a great senator looking out for our interests? Not.

Could there possibly be two members of Congress who are more irrelevant, vile, divisive, and generally fucked-up than Dick Burr and Renee Ellmers? Their ongoing crusade to name a federal office building after North Carolina's legendary racist Senator No continues to boggle the mind.

The Republican presidential wish list for 2016 includes all the usual suspects, and then some. But I have to confess to a certain bubbling excitement about the prospect of Bank Run Burr becoming the GOP's nominee. In the Des Moines Register article referenced above, Dick Burr is included in the auspicious category of "other," which exactly where he belongs.

Even though Burr wants to institute the exact same prohibitions against abortion that Akin is proposing.

All these sanctimonious crocodile tears from Republicans like Richard Burr would be hilarious if they weren't so pathetic. Akin's only problem was his lack of judgment in telling the truth about what most Republicans today believe. Fortunately, no one gives a flip what Burr thinks about anything. Akin's in this race for good ... the new poster child for Republican extremism.

Please read these sobering words from, Olympia Snowe, a rare Senate moderate. It must be observed that our own Richard "No one can get to the right of me" Burr is a big part of the problem.

From Daily Kos.

In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama highlighted one particular piece of legislation to restore the public's faith in their government:

“Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I will sign it tomorrow,” Obama said during his address to a joint session of Congress.

Today, the Senate voted to move forward with the STOCK Act, which will do precisely that. Today's vote was on cloture, the Senate agreeing to move the bill forward, and it passed 93-2 (Sens. Tom Coburn [R-OK] and Richard Burr [R-NC] voted against).

North Carolina has the second-longest federal judicial emergency in the nation.