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Durbin's Remarks to the Center for National Policy: "No More Blank Checks for Iraq"
United States Senator,Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin ^ | September 7, 2007 | United States Senator,Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin

Posted on 09/08/2007 2:29:12 PM PDT by mdittmar

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To: mdittmar

You get get much lower than Dickhead Durbin.


21 posted on 09/08/2007 3:11:37 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Freedumb

We have two equal morons Feinstein and Boxer and I’ll throw in Pelosi as well and don’t forget Arnold. Talk about disgusting traitors and disgraces.


22 posted on 09/08/2007 3:22:08 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Freedumb

We have two equal morons Feinstein and Boxer and I’ll throw in Pelosi as well and don’t forget Arnold. Talk about disgusting traitors and disgraces.


23 posted on 09/08/2007 3:22:53 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: mdittmar
This brainiac is my senior senator. The weenie IL-GOP better get its act together and soon. The Illinois “combine” needs to be dismantled, and GOP leadership needs to be resuscitated. This guy has to go, but we can’t repeat the Amb Keyes circus that handed Obama the Senate seat in a cakewalk. Those of us who pay attention and are involved are more than a little frustrated.
24 posted on 09/08/2007 3:23:21 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Wil H

Our elected thieves have no problem wasting the tax payers money on themselves or useless hearing so that they get face time ( To look as foolish as they seem)and special perks that are applicable to only themselves.


25 posted on 09/08/2007 3:46:06 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: river rat

While in Vietnam - I thought our own politicians were are most effective enemy..
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So Durbin born in 1944, the same year as my hubby who served in Nam, 1st infantry division.

So why didn’t little Dickie do do get drafted.
Oh, here is the answer:
He graduated from Assumption High School in East St. Louis in 1962. During his high school years he worked at a meat packing plant. He earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1966, where he graduated two years ahead of another famous Democratic politician, future President Bill Clinton. He served as an intern in the office of Illinois Senator Paul Douglas during his senior year in college.
Must have had a little help from Paul Douglas.
He has no balls to talk about anything and he should illegals..... really makes me mad.
He better shut the frick up.
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Durbin harboring illegals, he is a coward and a traitor.
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From the Libray of Congress, June 28, 2007, Durbin talking on the Senate floor about amnesty.
Congressional Record article 29 of 71

Among the people now whose lives are going to be left in uncertainty is a mother I know and know very well. Her husband was one of those lucky ones. He was a citizen from Mexico. In 1986, he was given amnesty by President Reagan. He works 14-hour days in a club in Chicago as a maitre’d, greeting people, bringing them to their tables. He and his wife have four children who are all American citizens. They were all born here. But his wife is undocumented. Several years ago, she was deported, 3 days before Mother’s Day, back to Mexico. She was pregnant at the time and wanted to stay in the United States with her doctor until the baby was born but wasn’t allowed. Eventually, I called the State Department. They gave her a humanitarian visa to come back to the United States. Now once each year I make a phone call to ask if she can stay with her family for another year. Luckily, she has been able to stay on what they call a humanitarian waiver. But she and her children never know from year to year whether mom is going to be deported to Mexico. Will it make America better if she leaves? Will it make that family better? I don’t think so. This is clearly a case where this great Nation can certainly absorb a loving mother who wants to make sure her kids have a good life.

There is another girl—she is now a young woman—I know from Chicago. She is Korean. She was an amazing young lady who had great musical talent. She was accepted at Juilliard School of Music, but when she applied she learned from her mother that when she was brought from Korea to the United States at the age of 2, no papers were filed. She had no status. She wasn’t a citizen of anyplace. She called our office and said: ``What should I do?’’ We checked, and we were told she had to go back to Korea. She had not been there since she was 2 years old. Her life is a life of uncertainty now. Where is she going to go? This is the only country she has ever known. She wants to use her musical talents right here in America, a place she calls home.

Then there is an attorney in the Loop in Chicago, a nice, attractive, young woman who graduated from law school. I met her at a gathering. She asked if I could talk to her afterward. She came up to me and said: ``I have to talk to you in private. It is about my mom. My mom is Polish. She came to Chicago to visit some relatives years ago, overstayed her visa. She is not here legally. She got married, had a family. She lives in constant fear that she is going to be deported away from her children and grandchildren. What are we going to do, Senator?’’

There will be no answer to these cases until we have a law that creates a mechanism, a formula, and a process that is reasonable. We tried to do that today without success. We can’t give up. We can’t give up on these cases, and we can’t give up on this issue.


26 posted on 09/08/2007 4:03:11 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Do not lick envelopes from China.........)
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To: Freedumb
I realize that Kennedy and Kerry are quite a pair and that New York must suffer with Hillary and Chucky but does any state have a worse pair of Senators as Illinois does with Durbin and Obama?

My state of Caleftfornia, with Boxer and Feinstein. However I am willing to concede a four way tie.

27 posted on 09/08/2007 4:19:22 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." Hold a hearing on that.)
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To: mdittmar

Treason!


28 posted on 09/08/2007 4:33:13 PM PDT by pankot
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To: pankot

Sounds like he is parroting bin Laden.


29 posted on 09/08/2007 4:49:57 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: mdittmar

Yes! dick is a dick!


30 posted on 09/08/2007 4:51:56 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I'd rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
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To: mdittmar

This just has to be the very first thing ever that Durbin wasn’t tripping over himself to spend other people’s money on.


31 posted on 09/08/2007 4:52:11 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: mdittmar

One of Bin Ladens butt boys, Turban Durbin, takes UBLs criticism to heart, and goes on the attack.


32 posted on 09/08/2007 4:57:59 PM PDT by DGHoodini
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

That’s because most DimoPerverts have less breeding and manners than barn animals.


33 posted on 09/08/2007 4:59:43 PM PDT by DGHoodini
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To: mdittmar

Durbin the Turban is under the delusion that he’s going to have some say over US war policy.

I suspect that it’s become much harder now for nervous GOP senators to vote against the president.


34 posted on 09/08/2007 5:01:53 PM PDT by wolfinator
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To: jonrick46

“War damages Army equipment”.

Wow. Who woulda thunk that? I guess we should have run up the white flag on 12/8/41 because a lot of our equipment got damaged the day before.


35 posted on 09/08/2007 5:19:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: sweetiepiezer

I would like to think that it Sen Douglas did not knowingly assist Durban in receiving a deferment. Often the staff has more juice then the name.

http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-douglas?method=26&initiator=CANS

Military service
The day after losing the primary, Douglas resigned from the Chicago City Council and signed up with the United States Marine Corps as a private. Wanting to see front line duty, Douglas accepted a commission as a captain. Although he was then fifty years old, Douglas was in good physical shape and had some pull with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, the former publisher of the Chicago Daily News, who arranged for Douglas to see duty in the Pacific Theater of Operations.
On the second day of the Battle of Peleliu, Douglas finally saw action when his unit waded into the fray. He earned a Bronze Star Medal for carrying ammunition to the front lines under enemy fire and earned his first Purple Heart when he was grazed by shrapnel.
A few months later, during the Battle of Okinawa, Douglas earned his second Purple Heart. A volunteer rifleman in an infantry platoon, he was advancing on the Naha-Shuri line when a burst of machine gun fire tore through his left arm, severing the main nerve and leaving it effectively useless.
After a thirteen-month stay in the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland, Douglas was given an honorable discharge as a Lieutenant Colonel with full disability pay.


36 posted on 09/08/2007 6:10:27 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Life is Good!)
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To: mdittmar

How does this traitor believe that he is going to achieve what he is saying? Even when the situation in Iraq was much worse than now the President crushed these traitors and got all what he wanted. Now after the Surge has been working great these treasonous delusional idiots have no chance in hell to stop the President from doing whatever that he wants on Iraq and gets whatever money he requires.


37 posted on 09/08/2007 6:21:35 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sounds like a heads up guy, one we are proud of. Maybe not him.
Durbin got an except from the draft from someone.


38 posted on 09/08/2007 6:46:34 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Do not lick envelopes from China.........)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Arnold is shameful but he is not even close to Gov. Blagojevich in Illinois. Blogo is easily the 2nd worst governor in the country (no one can take the title from Granholm in Michigan).

Earlier this year Blogo proposed a gross receipts tax on all Illinois business to fund his education and universal healthcare schemes. The Illinois House (which is DemoRAT-controlled) voted down his proposal 107-0.


39 posted on 09/08/2007 6:50:55 PM PDT by Freedumb
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To: Nailbiter

ping for later read


40 posted on 09/09/2007 2:33:20 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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