It’s been a month of political departures for Tulsi Gabbard, the 34-year-old Congresswoman from Hawaii and a rising star within the Democratic Party. Gabbard, who serves on the Democratic National Committee, voted with Republican lawmakers earlier this month on tightening restrictions on Syrian immigrants and criticized President Obama’s strategy of removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power. The Army National Guard veteran told the Times she will stand for what she believes in regardless of party politics, including criticizing the head of the DNC for leaving her and other committee members out of discussions about presidential debate schedules. “I’d be dishonoring the memory of a lot of folks who I’ve served with who didn’t make it home if I didn’t stand up for what I believe is right and stand up and speak the truth,” Gabbard told the Times.

Republicans praised Gabbard’s ability to work on both sides of the aisle in the piece Markwayne Mullin, a Republican Congressman from Oklahoma, said Gabbard “has the ability to forge relationships on both sides” and “has a personality people just seem to want to work with.” Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat, said Gabbard is still considered a “solid Democrat,” but that she’s of a younger generation of lawmakers who are willing to develop their own positions on issues.

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To the best of my knowledge, Major Gabbard is still with the Hawaii National Guard.

uhhh... ok?...

anyway, sounds like the repubs have a good mindset, while the dems are up their usual pointing fingers at their own stupidity...

"Republicans praised Gabbard’s ability to work on both sides of the aisle in the piece Markwayne Mullin, a Republican Congressman from Oklahoma, said Gabbard “has the ability to forge relationships on both sides” and “has a personality people just seem to want to work with.” Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat, said Gabbard is still considered a “solid Democrat,” but that she’s of a younger generation of lawmakers who are willing to develop their own positions on issues."




i thought ALL congress people were supposed to have their own ideas and views on all topics... doesn't that sound like the libtards
are saying do as your told, not what you believe?

Well, what do you expect from a party that has this person for its leader?

White House press secretary Josh Earnest urged lawmakers to pass new legislation providing Obama with the explicit authority to counter ISIS. "This effort is serious, and should be the focus of serious debate," Earnest told reporters during his Tuesday briefing. "It will take more than three weeks to pass an AUMF, but Congress, in each of these cases, must stop using the fact that these issues are difficult as an excuse for doing nothing."

Defense Secretary Ash Carter got a hint of just how difficult it may be to sell Congress on such legislation when Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) suggested that Obama's decision to place American fighter jets equipped "to target Russian planes" on the border between Turkey and Syria, and his stated opposition to Russian-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, could lead the U.S. into a nuclear war with Vladimir Putin's regime.

"Russia's installation of their anti-aircraft missile-defense system increases that possibility of - whether it's intentional or even an accidental event - where one side may shoot down the other side's plane," Gabbard told Carter. "And that's really where the potential is for this devastating nuclear war."