Senate approves Obama pick for surgeon general

WSFA ^ | 12-15-2014 | MATTHEW DALY and LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press

[Citizen Zed]

The Senate on Monday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as U.S. surgeon general, despite opposition from Republicans and some Democrats over his support for gun control.

Murthy, 37, a physician at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, won confirmation on a vote of 51-43. He's a co-founder of Doctors for America, a group that has pushed for affordable health care and supports Obama's health care law.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said most of Murthy's career has been spent as an activist focused on gun control and other political issues, rather than on treating patients. "Americans don't want a surgeon general who might use this position of trust to promote his own personal campaign against the Second Amendment of the Constitution," Barrasso said.

[Citizen Zed]

I wonder what deal made this happen? Blackmail?

[Perdogg]

The filibuster non-rule.

[Veto!]

Let me guess…another muslim and/or person of color. Obama don’t do no steenkin white officials.

[old curmudgeon]

I hope someone wioll post the voting records.

[Citizen Zed]

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00356

[backwoods-engineer]

Murthy got in, huh? I guess tomorrow, owning a gun will be declared the same as owning concentrated, weaponized Ebola virus, and the Obamatron agents of the Almighty State will begin the confiscation process.

Molon Labe. I will take a few of the Obamatrons with me if they try.

[Citizen Zed]

Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Ayotte (R-NH), Nay
Baldwin (D-WI), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Nay
Booker (D-NJ), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Nay
Boxer (D-CA), Not Voting
Brown (D-OH), Not Voting
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Not Voting
Coats (R-IN), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Not Voting
Collins (R-ME), Nay
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Cruz (R-TX), Nay
Donnelly (D-IN), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Nay
Flake (R-AZ), Nay
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Heitkamp (D-ND), Nay
Heller (R-NV), Nay
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johanns (R-NE), Not Voting
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Nay
Kaine (D-VA), Yea
King (I-ME), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Nay
Markey (D-MA), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Nay
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Not Voting
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Scott (R-SC), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Toomey (R-PA), Nay
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Walsh (D-MT), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

[PROCON]

I will take a few of the Obamatrons with me if they try.

You and me too, Bro, lock and load!

[CivilWarBrewing]

This is VERY bad, people. Murthy is Obama’s back door to gun control.. Guns will be deemed a ‘health issue’ and prohibition on firearms will follow. Think that’s crazy? So was releasing 5 Taliban commanders in exchange for a defector to the Taliban!

[Lizavetta]

British-born Indian man.

[PROCON]

Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) was the only 'Pub for him. He's a Navy vet too.

Dumb@ss.

[jimfree]

Joycelyn Elders 2014

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Obama Regime’s newest freak. Another know nothing, freeloading ‘RAT activist. Just what America needs. BTW, what happened to the Ebola czar anyway?

[skeeter]

Just wait until January - the GOP will fix that problem.

[combat_boots]

I think this was the real reason for the ‘non-rule’

This guy started doctors for 0bama. Although a doctor since 2006, he has never practiced.

[CivilWarBrewing]

You forgot your ‘/s’ tag.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Looks like Kirk clinched it for this Murthy character.

This is how they'll do gun control -- surgeon general will make a series of declarations culminating with the assertion that owning guns, or wanting to own guns, or being interested in guns, is a mental health problem.

And, on the recommendation of the surgeon general (and doesn't that sound reasonable) Obama will "act on behalf of the American people" to "address this rampant mental health issue."

[txrefugee]

States are approving open carry right and left. There is nothing the Sturgeon General can do about that. If Clinton’s joke appointment, Joycelyn Elders, could hold the post, a chimp could handle that useless waste of tax money.

[Veto!]

I searched around and found no report of this guy having been married….so maybe he’s a rep of the LBTG branch of the Obama regime.

[Terry L Smith]

this Dr. vivek Murphy is an anti-gun nut!