[BillyBoy]

SOME MEMORIAL QUOTES FROM THE ARTICLE:

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"The congressman has never been one to minimize his talents. Once, in a candidate debate, he responded to a question about immigration reform by announcing grandly, "I could answer that question in Spanish, since I attended Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico." Kirk finds himself amazing and expects you to agree."

"Republican Peter Fitzgerald. He was so honest and capable — I'm not joking here — that the Illinois Republican Party found him impossible to bear, inducing his retirement after one term."

"The office will fall to either Giannoulias or Kirk, who seem to be determined to raise our opinion of Burris."

"By this point, the average Illinoisan, ordered at gunpoint to choose between [Kirk and Giannoulias] the two, would reply, "Shoot." It's a familiar dilemma in a place where state government has four branches: executive, legislative, judicial and correctional."

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I can't believe it. A Chicago Tribune editoral that makes sense and one that I whole-heartedly agree with. Someone pinch me.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

He’ll be fired very soon, if he isn’t fired already.

[stars & stripes forever]

I was given a rare gift of a second life," he confided. "And to be given a second chance means it has to mean something

Is this the same Mark Kirk who voted for partial-birth abortion?

[VeniVidiVici]

"I could answer that question in Spanish, since I attended Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico."

Well, that explains alot

[fieldmarshaldj]

Time for Kirk to step down. Enough is enough.