Durbin Shines as a Rep Of Illinois and Justice (MORE COMEDY FROM RAY HANNANIA)

Southwest News-Herald - Chicago City & Suburban ^ | October 19, 2007 | Ray Hannania

[Chi-townChief]

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) laid it out pretty clear this week on why the Democrats, who were empowered in 2006 to take “control” of the U.S. Senate and Congress and bring our soldiers home, haven’t been able to do that.

Durbin explained that the Senate, for example, needs 67 members to override a presidential veto and that there are now only 51 Democratic Senators in the Senate. That gives Democrats enough votes to “control” key positions in the Senate but not enough to “end the war.”

“We have about five Republicans who will join us but that still is far short of what we need to override one of President Bush’s vetoes,” Durbin said. “I believe the people spoke in the last election and they want to bring our soldiers home and we continue to work toward that goal.”

Durbin acknowledged during his appearance on my radio show, Radio Chicagoland (www.RadioChicagoland.com) that many Republicans are afraid to challenge Bush.

“I think they are waiting until there is a change in the administration after this election,” Durbin said, pretty much explaining why Republicans continue to ignore the wishes of the American people.

I argued that Democrats should put the ball in Bush’s court and not let him off the hook. When the Congress proposed setting a timetable for withdrawal that was tied to the military funding bill, Republicans immediately played demagogue and asserted that doing so “jeopardized our American soldiers.”

Our American soldiers are already being jeopardized just being in Iraq. We are losing three to four American lives there every day and the casualty totals continue to increase. In opposing Democratic proposals to set a timetable for withdrawal, Bush has issued a death sentence for another 1,000 to 1,500 American soldiers. They will die as we wait for Bush to finally leave office.

My suggestion is Democrats push through another timetable for withdrawal and tie it to the funding bill. If Bush vetos the bill then Democrats should stand firm and let Bush be the one denying funds to our American soldiers, not Democrats by vetoing the bill.

But the fear of being labeled “unpatriotic” seems to impact Democrats more than it does Republicans. But that says a lot about the Democrats who have a conscience and are more concerned about the safety of our troops than Republicans, who fear losing more seats in upcoming elections.

Durbin spent time in Iraq recently meeting and listening to our soldiers, returning determined to do all he could to give them the proper equipment they need to be safe, even though the military’s toughest humvee still falls prey to the IEDs placed by the Iraqi insurgents.

He also said our soldiers need better health services and that many families of soldiers are suffering.

Until the American people all wake up and see that this war is a tragedy for our nation, there really isn’t anything the Democrats can do.

Durbin is a good political role model. He has spoken out honestly against torture, although he came under unfair attack from right wing extremists who insist that torture is justified — I wonder what those Republican fanatics will say when the same torture Americans use against Iraqi prisoners is used on our own soldiers?

Durbin said that was “an important point,” that America is a nation of principle. In principle, Americans are supposed to be better than the terrorists we fight.

He’s right!

rayhanania@comcast.net

[Chi-townChief]

If this spiel about the wonderful Senator Dickhead isn't in Hannania's stand-up routine, it should be!!

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGOLAND PING LIST

[traditional1]

Senator Turban Durbin is a worthless piece of dung. (see below pic).

If he and his fellow BDS sufferers in the Senate would spend less time bashing Rush Limbaugh on the Senate Floor, or wasting time passing worthless "Sense of the Senate" non-binding anti-Bush Resolutions, or trying to attach worthless tax increases such as socialized medicine amendments to military funding bills, they could get their approval ratings back up to double digits.

Dingy Hairy and Turbin Durbin are two jokes that are the "best and the brightest" of the Democrat heirarchy........which tells you where the Democratic Party has bottomed out, with the moonbat fringes and Soros-funded wacko's dictating what they are allowed to say, do, or think.

[stylin19a]

I wonder what those Republican fanatics will say when the same torture Americans use against Iraqi prisoners is used on our own soldiers?

testing...testing...1,2,3..is this thing on ?

*ahem*

Moron !

[toddlintown]

Ole Rag-Head Ray. This boy went down hill after it came out that he was boinking some local fem politician.

What was her name?

[penowa]

Turban Durban needs to worry about getting past the 60 votes to stop a filibuster so they can pass something, anything, before he bothers to rub his two brain cells together to figure out how they are going to get 67 votes so they can override a veto. What a moron. Lucky for him there are idiots dumber than he is who vote for him.

[Mike Bates]

Miriam Santos

[toddlintown]

Ah yes, Miriam.

[X-FID]

If this spiel about the wonderful Senator Dickhead isn't in Hannania's stand-up routine, it should be!!

Was it Jackie Mason who wouldn't let Hannania open for him at a comedy club?

I remember Hannania from the eighties, I think he had a suntimes column.

He was and is truly a nobody.

[Barnacle]

Barf

[Chi-townChief]

Hannania wrote for the Southtown and then kind of fell off the map. I remember he had some kind of incidence with Mason but can’t remember what it was.

[sheik yerbouty]

Mason refused to allow a jihadist to open for him..