He’s right to be a Burr under Trump’s saddle

By Quin Hillyer

Published May 10, 2019 6:15pm ET

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He’s right to be a Burr under Trump’s saddle — Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, right, listen to witnesses during a committee's hearing on foreign influence operations and their use of social media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. As alarms blare about Russian interference in U.S. elections, the Trump administration is facing criticism that it has no clear national strategy to protect the country during the upcoming midterms and beyond. | (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is a hero. Or at least, he’s the one guy actually doing his job, while fellow Republican officeholders attacking him are party hacks.

They are hacks in the same way House Judiciary Committee Democrats wrongly holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress are hacks. Both sides — indeed, almost all members of Congress these days — repeatedly put party over country and politics over principle.

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