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Durbin Amendment Would Erase New Hampshire from the Electoral Map

December 19, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Even after winning the popular vote, Democrats are hell-bent on the destruction of one of the last vestiges of our Republic. It is a Republic, not a Democracy, but absent the Electoral College, Presidential elections would be decided by popular vote, which, if you’re looking for a reason not to do that, I give you … Read more

SCOTUS on Senate Ethics Complaint Against Justice Clarence Thomas: A Unanimous “Up Yours!”

May 1, 2023 Skip

An Update: Well, perhaps not quite that direct but certainly, within the “politically polite” language used in DC (aka “my friends on the other side of the aisle” as they are shivving each other), a 9-0 unanimous vote against acceding to the whims of an (allegedly) co-equal Branch of government.

Senate Democrats Announce Plan to Amend the First Amendment ‘cuz Too Much Free Speech

August 1, 2019 Steve MacDonald

When the Supreme Court won’t back your unconstitutional Statist speech suppression antics what is a political party to do? Amend the First Amendment. That’s the plan according to US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Tom Udall (D- NM).

Democrats and Communists…

September 26, 2018May 3, 2013
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Chicago May Day march 2013, credit: marathon pundit

… usually begets the hyperbole induced eye-roll from many, but stick with me.

Breitbart headline: “Dick Durbin at May Day Immigration Rally: Communists? What Communists?”

Together again, deluded communist rubes and a Democrat, what a surprise.

Senator Dick Durbin attended a May Day march in Chicago the other day. It turns out that it was decorated with what you’d expect: Che Guevara’s shaded visage, hammer and sickle flags, painted anarchist A’s on placards etc. The usual bouquet of symbols representing the wilted leftist ideas that resulted in blood soaked suffering over the past few centuries. Gripping the bouquets were rubes too long on idle, too short on history, or (maybe and) just too dumb to care.

Why not the teachers?

September 26, 2018December 16, 2012 Skip

Fox News Sunday:

On the program earlier, Illinois Democrat senator Dick Durbin argued that arming school employees would be the wrong way to tackle the matter.

“I honestly think that that argument just doesn’t hold water,” Durbin said, “When you think about it, are we talking about arming teachers, arming principals? Is that going to make us a safer America? I don’t think so. Too many people are harmed by firearms, their own firearms, accidentally misused or turned on them.”

Well, we’ve armed pilots on planes, to good effect in the skies (along with air marshalls, and no one is complaining that they are armed). Sometimes, when I used to fly often, it was easy to pick out the A.M. as they joked and talked too much with the flight crew and if they stood just right, you could see they were carrying. If I could do it, so could the bad guys. Thus, the pilots are the last line of defense against evil.

Durbin has no basis to assert what he does – he doesn’t know that it wouldn’t make schools safer. In the first few moments of a tragedy like CT, people are going to get hurt and, unfortunately, die. But given some short amount of time (as the national average is about 23 minutes for law enforcement to arrive), those willing to be trained and willing to be that ‘go to” person could stop others from being involved in that tragedy.

Two Dick’s & Obama’s Vitamin Police

September 26, 2018October 10, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Long story short, if the regs went into place the vitamin shelf at the store would be emptied until supplement makers submitting test results to the FDA and the products were approved. And the added for battling the bureaucracy and testing regime? You’d be paying that when they products went back on the shelf, if they did.

Great Plan Dick

September 26, 2018April 24, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Dick Durbin, Richard, Rick, Ricky, Dicky, Dickard, The Dickster Durbin is suggesting an intervention for his state of Illinois. Apparently the tax and spender state implemented an internet sales tax on retailers. They were thinking that it might help them with their budget problem; I guess they left Terie “Billion Dollar Deficit” Norelli in charge of spending over there as well.

Hodespocrisy–The Tale of Dirty Dick

September 26, 2018August 18, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Dick Durbin, or Dirty Dick as we like to call him around the shop, is a prominent Senator from Illinois and another $10,000.00 donor to Paul Hodes. Durbin has all the standard conflicts with the "New and Improved Hodes–With extra Hypocritical Action!, and coming in at 685 million in earmark requests since fiscal year 2008 (117 million in 2010), dirty Dick should fit nicely into Paul’s stated mission to end earmark abuse in congress.

You’d think that soon to be private citizen Hodes would be concerned that all of his major donors are pork addicts. Simply taking money from them violates his earmark parole, but since when did integrity have anything to do with it. It’s clearly about saying whatever it takes to get re-elected.

So what else is so special about Durbin?