I watched him discussing amendments he offered to the Bankruptcy Reform bill last week. At the time he offered it his was amendment 49 - and surely not the last as Democrats seek to stop the reform legislation. He spoke of Enron and Adelphia to conjure an image of fraud and embezzlement, although he incorrectly attributed the infamous $7,000 shower curtain to Adelphia, rather than to the Tyco scandals. He then mentioned Bethlehem Steel as an example of a firm that went bankrupt and left retirees without pension or health benefits. Well - first of all the PGBC will back up at least some part of the pensions. Secondly - the handful of major corporate bankruptcies he mentions (Enron, MCI, etc.) are not the point of bankruptcy reform - some of the 1.6M annual personal bankruptcies are. Durbin spoke of Enron as if amending the bankruptcy code today (which will go into effect in 180 days after signing) would do something to affect a change in Enron's disposition. He also spoke apparently in ignorance of the plethora of federal criminal statutes that already respond to the fraud in the Enron situation.
The thing that galls me most about Durbin is not his ignorance - it's the delivery. He slips the knife between the ribs with a smile and with a radio announcer's vocal delivery. He is a POS.
The dems are all senile or just plain lunatic.
They all need to be retired from office.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6799409/
http://www.teriobrien.com/articleread.asp?u_log=23
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0307/hentoff.php
http://www.ilgop.org/demwatch/demwatchview.asp?c=2628