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Posts tagged "Dick Durbin"

Dick Durbin, hack that he is, thought he could get away with this dirty trick...

but thanks to the blogosphere he won’t. Sen Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) tried to dump a $140 million Illinois white elephant, the Thomson Correctional Center, on federal taxpayers with a bizarre but revealing political trick: He’s holding up the reauthorization of an obscure federal agency that is designed to protect religious liberty around the globe. Until... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
December 9, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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Sen. Durbin's "betrayal"

The left wing is raising money to run this ad about Sen. Dick Durbin’s betrayal on health care. Uh oh. Sen. Dick Durbin has deeply angered his base by reneging on his promise to vote for a “public option” in the health bill. Here’s the Roll Call story explaining why his betrayal of his left... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 13, 2010 at 6:03 pm
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Gay men can't give blood?

I didn’t know that until reading that a bunch of senators, including our own Dick Durbin and  Roland Burris, have asked the Food and Drug Administration to lift the ban. We’ll now have an outbreak of rhetoric like we years ago when we debated the right of privacy versus the common good.  According to the Philadelphia... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 11, 2010 at 12:56 pm
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RICO ACORN

Dear Senator Durbin, I didn’t expect your Democratic Senate colleague, Roland Burris, to understand why voting against the federal defunding of ACORN was contemptible. That’s because he is a demonstrable twit. But you, sir, from your exalted position as your party’s second highest official in the Senate, should have been able to locate and read... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 21, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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