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   From: impeach.the.kenyan.traitor@barackobama.com   
      
   After a facing a bruising defeat over President Obama's pick for   
   a key Justice Department post this month, the White House is   
   carefully weighing how to move forward with the president's pick   
   for surgeon general.   
      
   The nomination has drawn heckles from gun rights advocates.   
      
   A senior administration official, who requested anonymity to   
   talk about White House strategy on the nomination, stressed that   
   the White House hasn't given up on confirming Vivek Murthy, who   
   is perhaps best known for founding Doctors for America, a group   
   that campaigned for Obama's health care law.   
      
   But after Obama's nominee to oversee the Justice Department's   
   Civil Rights Division, Debo Adegbile, was blocked from Senate   
   confirmation because of objections to the role he played in the   
   defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the White House   
   decided to slow down its push for Murthy.   
      
   "After the Debo vote, we are recalibrating the strategy around   
   his floor vote," the senior administration official said.   
      
   Murthy, 36, was approved in a Senate Health, Education, Labor   
   and Pensions committee vote last month with the support of all   
   Democrats and one Republican. And he has received the   
   endorsements of several prominent groups and individuals in the   
   health and wellness community.   
      
   But his nomination has faced growing opposition from gun rights   
   advocates, including the National Rifle Association, which has   
   raised objections to Murthy advocating for tougher gun laws in   
   the aftermath of the 2012 Newtown, Conn., school shooting that   
   left 20 children and six adults dead.   
      
   Among the reforms that Murthy backed in a 2013 letter to   
   President Obama and Vice President Biden were mandatory   
   licensing for anyone purchasing a firearm or ammunition and a   
   federal ban on assault weapons.   
      
   "Just as troublesome as these positions are Dr. Murthy's calls   
   for the federal government to use its involvement in health and   
   medicine to further a gun control agenda," NRA Executive   
   Director Chris Cox wrote in a letter last month to Senate   
   Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader   
   Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.   
      
   Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, who has a track record of   
   supporting gun ownership rights, told constituents in a letter   
   that he was unlikely to support Murthy if the vote comes to the   
   full Senate for a vote.   
      
   "While the Senate has not yet scheduled a vote on Dr. Murthy, I   
   have already told the White House I will very likely vote no on   
   his nomination if it comes to the floor," Begich said in the   
   letter, the Associated Press reports.   
      
   Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has said he will try to block   
   Murthy's confirmation, said he is also concerned about Murthy's   
   political agenda and that Murthy will use the position to   
   promote gun control.   
      
   Earlier this week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who has been   
   among the most outspoken critics of the pick, expressed   
   confidence that several Senate Democrats facing tough re-   
   election battles will join Republicans in voting against Murthy.   
      
   "I know there are a number of senators who are up for re-   
   election who are probably not going to want to vote for somebody   
   who is this committed to taking away our Second Amendment   
   rights," Barrasso told Fox News.   
      
   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/15/obama-   
   surgeon-general-nominee-trouble/6457575/   
      
   Murthy is a predisposed traitor and will not take his oath of   
   office seriously.   
      
       
      
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