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No Town Halls For You! - TIME FOR THE COWARD DICK DURBIN TO RESIGN HIS SENATE SEAT
NBC - Chicago ^ | 8/14/09 | Steve Rhodes

Posted on 08/14/2009 9:39:13 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

Dick Durbin, you spoilsport.

The state's senior U.S. senator may (or may not) have made a wise decision to forego hosting health care town halls in his home state, but in any case he's denying us of a spectacle we deserve.

After all, who isn't dying to see how a relatively close, personal friend of the president (and the No. 2 man in the Senate as Harry Reid's assistant majority leader) would handle the (planted or not) mobs that would turn out to shout him down?

Some of those mobs may even be made up of liberals, now that Durbin has backed away from the public option portion of a health care reform bill that some leading Democrats say is worthless without it.

Dick Durbin would prefer to answer your questions in a more controlled environment. Given the blueness of Illinois, Durbin would likely be pelted from both sides.

What fun!

But there's a more serious dimension to Durbin's decision: Is he doing his constituents a disservice?

He's appears to have alredy lost one vote over the matter.

"I am sorry that I ever voted for you," T. Morgan comments at the State Journal-Register. "You owe me and every other voter out there a town hall; I supported you every time your name has appeared on the ballot, but that will not happen again."

And Morgan's the least vitriolic of the dissenters.

Durbin seems to claim he doesn't need a town hall to connect with voters on this topic.

“I am prepared to answer any honest question from anyone in this state about this issue," Durbin says.

Okay. What's your number?

Oh, here it is: (312) 353-4952.

I'll pass it on to Mr. Morgan.

Steve Rhodes is the proprietor of The Beachwood Reporter, a Chicago-centric news and culture review.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: dickdurbin; healthcare; lefties; obama; senatordickhead; toenhells; townhall; townhalls; townhells
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If this so-called senator can't face the the voters, it's time for him to move over and let a man in - Dick, it's time to resign!!
1 posted on 08/14/2009 9:39:16 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

OBAMA CARE BY THE NUMBERS


OBAMA'S BRIDGE TOO FAR

2 posted on 08/14/2009 9:40:10 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: AbsoluteJustice; Augie76; Barnacle; BeAllYouCanBe; BillyBoy; Bismarck; bourbon; ...

Illinois Ping


3 posted on 08/14/2009 9:40:40 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Jeff Head

I would like to see Biden do a town hall meeting as well that would be rich.


4 posted on 08/14/2009 9:41:33 AM PDT by mickidawn1969
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To: Jeff Head

5 posted on 08/14/2009 9:43:29 AM PDT by 444Flyer (FReepers and freedom lovers, we are in a gigantic TUG-OF-WAR for our nation and our Constitution.)
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To: Chi-townChief

I heard on Cisco Cotto’s show this morning that there might be an effort to bring the town hall to Durbin — organizing a demonstration outside his downtown office.


6 posted on 08/14/2009 9:44:25 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
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To: mickidawn1969

Yeah. We would probably ‘inadvertently’ get the truth.

:)


7 posted on 08/14/2009 9:45:32 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Chi-townChief

Why don’t you giuys do the same thing as that other group and call a TownHall Meeting for him, invite him and if he doesn’t show up have an empty chair for him. Take lots of You Tube clips.


8 posted on 08/14/2009 9:45:40 AM PDT by kempster
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To: Jeff Head
You are awesome, Jeff!! Great graphics.
9 posted on 08/14/2009 9:49:13 AM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: kempster

A great idea.


10 posted on 08/14/2009 9:49:19 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

A group with sufficient funds could stage a mock townhall meeting with an empty stage asking Durbin questions.


11 posted on 08/14/2009 9:53:07 AM PDT by monocle
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To: mickidawn1969

That is what I have been waiting for!


12 posted on 08/14/2009 9:53:50 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (An oath to a liar is no oath at all)
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To: Chi-townChief
Dick Durbin isn't the only COWARD either. We have a few of them HIDING OUT from Arkansans. I was going to say IN ARKANSAS but since Blanche Lincoln lives in VA with her doctor husband she is rarely IN ARKANSAS (except for the fundraiser she held this week)!

Mike Ross held a 'town hall' meeting ON THE PHONE. Mark Pryor doesn't think he needs to hold one at all. Vic Snyder hid behind a bunch of sick kids at the Arkansas children's hospital and pretended to discuss health care.

These COWARDS just may get a shock of a lifetime come next election. I hope so anyway!

13 posted on 08/14/2009 9:54:56 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Chi-townChief

Chicago politics. He doesn’t need any townhalls when he’s got a fellow thug in the White House.


14 posted on 08/14/2009 9:57:28 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: Chi-townChief

Dick has no balls.


15 posted on 08/14/2009 10:02:51 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Forget going Galt. Its time to go Braveheart.)
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To: Chi-townChief

It is Illinois. Their politicians don’t care what the general electorate says. So long as the machine is behind then they win.


16 posted on 08/14/2009 10:02:57 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

You know Dick would be far away from that.


17 posted on 08/14/2009 10:05:23 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
This article is wrong.
Durbin's had many townhall meetings, they were all with "The Combine".

don' need no stinkin' voters when youze got Da Combine behind youze. (chicagospeak -- off)

18 posted on 08/14/2009 10:06:56 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: monocle

A group with sufficient funds could stage a mock townhall meeting with an empty stage asking Durbin questions.


I suggested this earlier—on the IL Location comments site—would be great to have a radio talk show host MC it—ask the questions & have a Durbin cardboard cut-out...


19 posted on 08/14/2009 10:10:55 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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To: Chi-townChief

Oh, sure. But it might be a good way to underscore Durbin’s chickening out on meeting with his constituents. Now, of course, he could always cover himself by arranging for some fact-finding mission in some far corner of the world.


20 posted on 08/14/2009 10:12:42 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
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