Posted on 06/30/2011 8:30:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I never thought I’d long for the days of Robert Byrd and his “pocket Constitution,” but alas, Dick Durbin has managed to eke out that much nostalgia after his DREAM Act gaffe yesterday. Real Clear Politics and Doug Powers at the Boss Emeritus’ site caught this tender moment from Durbin as he addressed school-age “undocumented” aliens and promised that his DREAM Act would allow them to become tomorrow’s Congressmen, Senators, and … Presidents?
“When I look around this room, I see America’s future. Our doctors, our teachers, our nurses, our engineers, our scientists, our soldiers, our Congressman, our Senators and maybe our President.”
I know that reading the Constitution has fallen out of fashion on Capitol Hill; Democrats pitched a fit when the new Republican majority in the House wanted to start the 112th Session by reading it aloud. But Durbin might want to read Article II, Section 1 of the founding document, as it’s pretty clear on eligibility for the nation’s top executive position:
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”
Durbin’s Constitutional illiteracy explains a lot, including his DREAM Act.
Maybe he was basing his statement on the current president.
What Durbin needs is a crash course on current events, because we already have an illegal holding the office of President.
He knows they’re already voting.
These people are so damn stupid! I am soooo fed up, that I can’t stand these boneheads in DC any more! (Both parties!)
God help us all!
I am ashamed to say I am from a state that continually puts this nit-wit back in the senate.
Even if we downstaters could vote some of the corrupt leeches out of office they always seem to manufacture enough votes in the Chicago area to get them reelected
He has all the right qualifications -- first of all, he was declared brain dead at birth.
They all come out to a presser with the underlings following like little puppets. I think it's hilarious & sad at the same time.
Seems reasonable. Tick Durbin probably was basing his observation of the 0
A Kenyan residing in Illinois was already elected president so I guess little dick durbin knows what he’s talking about.
Dick from the usurper’s Illinios. Coincidence? I think not.
What makes you think that he has any knowledge to begin with in need of “refreshing”?
Little Dick Turban-Durbin doesn’t seem to understand much.
If he said this in 2007, he’d be right!
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