Well, you may be right - I think I know what Mark Kirk is, and what he is NOT. His record on fiscal issues is pretty good, he may as well be Barney Frank when it comes to social issues. But he’s not Alexi, and he does have an R behind his name (the first letter in RINO). So like many I will hold my nose and vote for him, because even the longest journey begins with a single step, and taking “the Obama seat” from the Democrat party will weaken them in IL and Kirk is at least no worse than Alexi.
Do I wish Jack Ryan had kept it zipped? Yeah. I wish we had a better candidate now, too.
“His record on fiscal issues is pretty good,”
His cap and tax vote says otherwise.
Well I early voted and I hold my nose and voted for Kirk..
Yeah, but if you vote for Kirk, you can do no better than him in six years. Plus:
* That lying, snivelling, back-stabber will represent the REPUBLICAN party.
* He’ll be the go-to guy for all Sunday morning shows.
* He’ll have the authority to credibly attack any real conservative (”Even Republicans think so-and-so is just beyond the pale!”)
I keep telling people that voting for a liberal just because he’s got an “R” after his name makes as much sense as giving classified information, weapons, and field position to a Nazi spy, just because he’s stolen a GI’s uniform.
"Fiscal Conservative" Mark Kirk's REAL record:
- Kirk voted with Taxpayers for Common Sense 33% of the time
- Kirk voted with The Club for Growth 19% of the time (9 / 48 votes)
- Kirk voted with Citizens for Tax Justice 17% of the time
- Kirk voted NO to H.J. Res. 3-Releasing Funds for Economic Stabilization Act (this act was sponsored by Republicans after the first 300 billion dollars went unaccounted for to block the remaining funds from being released without oversight)
- Kirk voted YES on Cap-n-Trade, the BIGGEST tax increase in U.S. history ( the ONLY Republican member of the Illinois congressional delegation that voted yes!) (HR 2454)
- Kirk voted YES on Democrat Charlie Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax (H.R. 1586)
- Kirk voted YES on Overseas Military Facilities Abortion funding (H.R.708)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R.2 - the Democrat's SCHIP Program-basically an expansion of welfare (includes $1 tax on cigarettes to "fund" the program)
- Kirk voted YES on H.R. 3997-First Economic Bailout Package (this is the one that failed the first time through), then voted YES on HR-1424:Second Economic Bailout Package (this one was bigger than the first!)
- Kirk SUPPORTED HR 2, Nancy Pelosi's minimum wage hike that exempted businesses in her own district (Kirk excuse is that he didn't read the bill)
- Mark Kirk voted to approve nearly $200 million for the Air Force to purchase three luxury aircraft for ferrying top government office and Members of Congress.
- Mark Kirk claims that he opposes all congressional earmarks, yet sponsored $74,766,000 worth of earmarks from 2008-2010, including $4,725,000 worth of SOLE earmarks requests for himself. See all of "fiscal conservative" Mark Kirk's earmarks here:
www.legistorm.com/earmarks/details/member/320/Rep_Mark_Kirk/page/1/sort/amount/type/desc.html
- Mark Kirk was ONE of only two Republicans NOT to co-sponsor auditing the Federal Reserve.
- Mark Kirk voted to approve a $140,000 earmark for ACORN's New York office.
- Mark Kirk OPPOSED Republican Senator Jim Bunning's (R-KY) stand to use existing Stimlus funds for the extension of unemployment benefits, and supported the Democrat legislation to pay for it using a new $10 billion expansion to budget deficit.
Vote for "fiscal conservative" Mark Kirk, he'll do for Illinois what "fiscal conservative" Ahnuld Schwarzkennedy did for California.