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  • Dick Durbin’s Senate Gun Trial to Feature Ghost of Trayvon Martin

    10/29/2013 8:07:29 AM PDT · by rktman · 15 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 10/28/2013 | J. Christian Adams
    After a government semi-shutdown, the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov and the looming budget crisis coming again in January, you’d think the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate would reserve his limited time and resources to focus on fixing these critical issues the federal government has already messed up. You’d be wrong. Senator Richard Durbin, the second most powerful man in the Senate, will hold a special hearing this week on state self-defense laws and the death of Trayvon Martin. (PJ Media has extensively covered the Trayvon Martin incident. See, “Justice for Trayvon, Race Hustler Style,” or Bill Whittle’s fantastic revelation about...
  • Trayvon Martin’s Mom Calls for Amending ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws

    10/29/2013 12:31:02 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 59 replies
    WABC77 ^ | 10/29/13
    Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday that “stand your ground” laws must be reviewed and amended. “It’s unfortunate what has happened with Trayvon, and that’s why I feel like it’s so important for me to be here so that you all can at least put a face with what has happened with this tragedy,” Fulton said at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing. “I just wanted to come here to talk to you for a moment to let you know how important it is that we amend this ‘stand your ground’ because it did not,...
  • Durbin pulls Facebook post

    10/29/2013 7:06:47 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 21 replies
    The Hill ^ | October 29, 2913 | Mario Trujillo
    Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) removed a Facebook post Monday that alleged a House GOP leader told President Obama “I cannot even stand to look at you” at a private meeting. Durbin said he did not immediately take down the post after it was proven false last week because he wanted to leave it in the proper context. "If I'd have raced to take it off, [the media] would have done that story too: `Durbin races to take this off.' I wanted to put into context how I got into this situation," he told the Associated Press. After Durbin...
  • White House Bungles Leak About GOP Leader Trashing Obama

    10/25/2013 7:00:10 AM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 28 replies
    ABC News ^ | 10-24-2015 | Arlette Saenz
    The White House and Senate Democrats may need a refresher course on how to leak a juicy story. The White House today was forced to backtrack on a rumor Obama administration officials started about a Republican House leader who purportedly insulted President Obama to his face, telling the president, “I cannot even stand to look at you.” Turns out, it never happened. How do we know? The same White House that was responsible for starting the buzz now says there was a “miscommunication” and a “misunderstanding.” Here’s how it went down: (Read the timeline at linked source)
  • DICK DURBIN RAISING MONEY ON STATEMENT WHITE HOUSE SAYS IS A LIE

    10/24/2013 5:44:53 PM PDT · by smoothsailing · 10 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | 10-24-2013
    October 24, 2013 DICK DURBIN RAISING MONEY ON STATEMENT WHITE HOUSE SAYS IS A LIE DOWNERS GROVE — The Truax campaign is outraged that U.S. Senator Dick Durbin launched a fund-raising effort over derogatory comments Durbin's Facebook page alleges an unidentified Republican GOP House member said to the President during government shutdown negotiations. "Dick Durbin needs to return every cent he's raised off this dubious claim until he can verify it is true," said Doug Truax, who is running for U.S. Senate against Durbin. "The White House has unequivocally stated Durbin's claim is untrue."Durbin retells what the White House says "didn't...
  • Durbin stands by slam on GOP

    10/24/2013 10:34:20 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 9 replies
    http://www.chicagotribune.com ^ | october 24, 2013 | Katherine Skiba
    The White House on Wednesday disputed Sen. Dick Durbin's assertion that a House Republican leader insulted President Barack Obama while negotiating with the president over the partial government shutdown. But Durbin, an Illinoisan who is a friend and ally of the president, stood by his story, according to numerous media reports. In a Facebook post Sunday that remained up Wednesday night, Durbin wrote: "Many Republicans searching for something to say in defense of the disastrous shutdown strategy will say President Obama just doesn't try hard enough to communicate with Republicans. But in a 'negotiation' meeting with the president, one GOP...
  • [Chicago] Mayor calls federal prosecutors’ efforts on gun crime ‘horrible’

    10/24/2013 2:49:56 PM PDT · by Q-ManRN · 15 replies
    The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 23, 2013 | Frank Main
    Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday called federal prosecutors’ efforts to crack down on gun crime “horrible” in Chicago when compared to other cities like New York or Los Angeles. “But that does not absolve us from our responsibility. It doesn’t absolve Springfield. There is a lot that needs to be fixed specifically on guns, both on the prosecutorial side, the gun prevention side and other aspects,” [Chicago Mayor Rahm] Emanuel said. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) have been encouraging the [federal prosecutor] to take on street crime, too.
  • Pete Sessions is the Republican who told Obama he can’t stand to look at him (Reid)

    10/24/2013 6:42:55 PM PDT · by chessplayer · 39 replies
    A follow-up to yesterday’s post. Turns out Reid wasn’t at the meeting where Sessions allegedly said this, of course, and neither were the two Democratic senators who relayed what he said to HuffPo. Go figure. Sessions was indeed one of the House Republicans who met with Obama on October 10, but both he (“We’re all working together now”) and the White House (which described the meeting as “good”) seemed pleased afterward with the result. If Sessions said what he’s accused of saying, it’s awfully strange that Team Hopenchange didn’t leak that themselves, after negotiations between O and the GOP fell...
  • White House admits it was behind rumor that GOP leader told Obama I cannot even stand to look at you

    10/24/2013 6:23:27 PM PDT · by NCjim · 55 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | October 25, 2013
    The White House admitted Thursday that it was the source of a phony quote attributed to a top House Republican, who had allegedly told President Obama during a tense Oct. 10 meeting that 'I cannot even stand to look at you.' Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate Majority Whip, claimed in a Facebook post on Sunday that an unnamed GOP lawmaker had delivered the verbal slap in Obama's face, but everyone involved with the story now says it never happened. Eighteen Republicans from Congress attended that meeting with the president during a 16-day partial shutdown of the federal government, with the...
  • White House says it was behind Durbin ‘miscommunication’

    10/24/2013 10:25:17 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 35 replies
    The Hill ^ | October 24, 2013 | Russell Berman and Amie Parnes
    The White House on Thursday said it was behind a miscommunication that caused Senate Democrats to think a Republican lawmaker told President Obama at a private budget meeting, “I can’t even stand to look at you.” For a second day in a row, the White House said the incident did not happen, but Thursday it also apologized for the confusion and accepted blame. “While the quote attributed to a Republican lawmaker in the House GOP meeting with the president is not accurate, there was a miscommunication when the White House read out that meeting to Senate Democrats, and we regret...
  • Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 20 October 2013

    10/20/2013 5:22:37 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 144 replies
    Various driveby media television networks ^ | 20 October 2013 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
    The Talk Shows October 20th, 2013 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew; Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Mark Warner, D-Va. THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas; former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Cruz; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
  • Durbin: Republican Strategy On Shutdown Was ‘A Complete Disaster’

    10/17/2013 8:43:49 PM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 36 replies
    cbslocal.com ^ | October 17, 2013
    After helping negotiate a bipartisan deal to end the partial federal government shutdown, and extend the debt limit, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he hopes House Republicans learned a lesson: “this is unacceptable.” “We have got to sit down in a mature, bipartisan way, and solve our problems,” he said. “I hope that Speaker [John] Boehner and the House Republicans have learned a valuable lesson: this is unacceptable. And we need to come together to solve our problems.” Durbin said there were no winners in the battle over shutting down the federal government, but reporters in Chicago asked whether...
  • Senate plots House GOP squeeze

    10/13/2013 1:24:09 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 22 replies
    The Hill ^ | October 12, 2013 | Alexander Bolton with Peter Schroeder and Erik Wasson
    The White House and the Senate are working to squeeze House Republicans into accepting a bipartisan compromise from the upper chamber to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. Any emerging deal, however, will leave ObamaCare largely intact, angering conservatives who have demanded defunding or delaying President Obama’s signature achievement. House Republicans are fuming over the prospect that Senate Democrats and Republicans are working on a plan to jam them with a last-minute deal they would have to accept or risk triggering a federal default. “They are trying to jam us with the Senate and we are not going...
  • Top Dem: Tea Party acting like ‘spoiled’ children

    10/02/2013 1:37:36 PM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 20 replies
    msnbc.com ^ | October 02, 2013 | Jessica Taylor
    “Every parent knows that if you give into a spoiled child today, it’s going to be worse tomorrow,” Durbin said on Wednesday’s The Daily Rundown. ”If we reach some sort of temporary accord with Tea Party Republicans and Speaker Boehner, two weeks from now we’re in the soup again with the debt ceiling.” .... “Why don’t the Tea Party Republicans open their eyes and see that they are inflicting on this country a pain that is totally unnecessary?” Durbin said. “Don’t take out these political temper tantrums on the economy and the workers of America.
  • Reid Calls House Plan for Separate Funding Bills a 'Wacky Idea'

    10/01/2013 7:58:25 PM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 31 replies
    kmbz.com ^ | October 01, 2013 | BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shot down the House proposal to pass three small funding measures, calling it a “wacky idea” from the House Republicans. “It’s just another wacky idea from the Tea Party-driven Republicans,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “You can tell the Tea Party Republicans still want to keep the government shutdown.” “This is not serious. The government is shut down and if they think they’re going to nitpick us on this, it won’t work. It won’t work,” Reid said. Reid did not say how he would handle the narrow funding measures when they reach the Senate,...
  • Dick Durbin and Poor, Poor Judy

    09/25/2013 11:11:46 AM PDT · by rightwingerpatriot · 18 replies
    RightWingPatriot.com ^ | September 25, 2013 | RightWingPatriot
    I love letting progressive liberals speak freely as they will eventually let their true thoughts slip out. Such was the case yesterday when Senator Dick Durbin (Illinois) had an exchange with Ted Cruz during Cruz's marathon 21 hour speech. As is the case with liberals, they never argue facts but just attempt to use emotion to bolster their already weak arguments. Dick Durbin spun the story of a housekeeper "Judy" who works at a motel and has become friends with Durbin. This occurred when Dick Durbin couldn't answer Ted Cruz's question of whether or not Durbin had actually read the...
  • Defense contractors donate a ton to pro-war Senators

    09/16/2013 8:56:35 AM PDT · by Oldpuppymax · 8 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 9/16/13 | George Spelvin
    Senator John McCain raked in a staggering $176,300.00 to win the gold in the defense contract lobby dollars Olympics, the most of any other senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee according to a print outlet in Great Britain. (1) Is this mind blowing amount reverberating in his brain as he tells Congress and the American people, “It would be catastrophic if Congress doesn’t go along” with Barack’s Syria “policy?” Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) who is up for re election next year won the silver with a $127,350 purse, and VA Democrat Tim Kaine pulled in $101,025 to wear the...
  • Freedom Foundation to U.S. Senator: “No one will make us renounce freedom”

    08/16/2013 5:35:31 PM PDT · by Baynative · 45 replies
    Freedom Foundation ^ | 8/15/13 | Trent England
    U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is a statist and a bully. The Senator, known for comparing U.S. soldiers to Nazis, recently used his senatorial letterhead to demand answers from us here at the Freedom Foundation. Sen. Durbin wants to know whether the Freedom Foundation is, or ever has been, a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
  • Smart-ALEC Durbin Targets Another Conservative Group

    08/12/2013 5:44:36 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 15 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | August 12, 2013 | IBD EDITORIAL PING
    Stand Your Ground: A big hypocrite in the IRS scandal targeting Tea Party groups sets his sights on a conservative think tank, asking its suspected supporters: "Are you now or have you ever been a conservative?" Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is on a witch hunt that threatens anew the free speech rights of Americans who don't hold his views or those of the Obama administration. This time he has targeted the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group of state legislators who promote free markets, limited government and federalism, ahead of a "stand your ground" hearing Durbin announced after George...
  • Durbin under fire for ‘Stand Your Ground’ inquiries

    08/10/2013 7:54:38 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 20 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | August 10, 2013 | Chuck Ross
    Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin is facing a firestorm of criticism after sending letters to hundreds of organizations trying to find out the depth of their relationship with the American Legislative Exchange Council. The senator’s interest in ALEC is based on the stand your ground legislation that has become a focal point for liberal activists and lawmakers after the George Zimmerman trial in Florida. But his hometown newspaper, The Chicago Tribune, editorialized that the inquiries looked like “Durbin’s enemies list.” In the August 6 letter sent to think tanks and corporations, Durbin wrote, “I am seeking clarification whether organizations that...