Good article. Now if only we had a better candidate to vote for than Mark Freakin’ Kirk. But it comes down to the Democrat rat bastard who will vote for every one of Obama’s toxic programs and jack it to the taxpayers, or Kirk, who will only vote for half of them (the social touchy-feely crap, antigun nonsense, and whatever is politically expedient for him at the time). But he will at least vote conservatively on fiscal issues and won’t just rubber stamp tax increases.
It’s clear what the best option is, but kinda like having to decide whether we want to get mugged or mugged AND robbed.
Only if you believe Kirk's campaign talking points. Meanwhile, in the real world :
- 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: http://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.