(Via Hot Air Headlines) Avoiding boggling gets harder and harder every day:
Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin admitted Friday that he is “in the dark” about the national health care bill currently under construction by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In an exchange on the Senate floor, Republican Sen. John McCain asked Durbin, “Should we not at least be informed as to what the proposal is that the Senate Majority Leader is going to propose to the entire Senate?” Durbin’s answer: “I would say to the senator from Arizona that I am in the dark almost as much as he is, and I am in the leadership.” Durbin explained that during a Democratic caucus, Reid and the small group of senators involved in crafting the bill turned to their fellow Democrats and “basically stood and said, ‘We are sorry, we can’t tell you in detail what was involved.’”
Transcript here.
I can say nothing else except that while this is not enough to persuade me to show some sympathy to Dick Durbin (whom I despise for his attacks on minority students), this is still no way to run a railroad. Or a Congress.
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Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Horrible Harry should brief Biden
SteveLA (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 6:12PM EST (link)Moe
Maybe Horrible Harry should just go ahead and brief VP Biden in on the plan, that couldn’t hurt now could it?
12, 24 or 48 hours later…who knows.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
When the RINOs and other Republicans
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 6:38PM EST (link)allow the Dems to get their way most of the time, in or out of power, and act like they run the show when out of power why is it a surprise to see them finally being treated like servants by the elite Dems when the Dems have a nearly, and only nearly, lock on power?
Perhaps the current leadership needs to either change party affiliation so they can be “in” on things or perhaps they should EXPLAIN to America what needs to done to stop our being bankrupted and actually go about doing it instead of allowing the Dems to set the pace for destroying America…
Just a thought.
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
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Omnibus Spending Bill FIASCO....
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 7:18PM EST (link)Yet another example of why any/all “official” Republican Committees/Organizations should NOT receive a single penny from any of us UNTIL THEY GET A GRIP ON ITS CAUCUS….. Cochran (R–MS), Collins (R-ME), and Shelby (R-AL), voted for the fiasco AND PROVIDED COVER FOR WEAK DEMOCRATS of Bayh (D-IN), Feingold (D-WI), McCackle (D-MO), to vote NO to allow them to go back and be CCINO during their next campaigns!!!…. WTF? (please pardon my outrage and pushing the bounds) is wrong with these folks?!?!?!
Daily Dimes Dichotomy – creating an NRSC: Daily Dimes Dichotomy
+Monthly 2 cent checks – I’m sending MONTHLY 2 cent checks with MEMO:RESIGN
+RNC called – RNC called, I hung up!
+Party of kNOw – Republicans must be the Party of NO [to Bigger Govt.] not the Party of SLOW[er Liberal Incremental-ism]
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
I agree!
chbroussard (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 7:36PM EST (link)It appears to me that the ONLY way these guys are going to get the message is if we turn off the money faucet and send our money directly to deserving candidates. I have called, faxed, and written legislators over and over and over again about health care, deficit spending, and other onerous legislation…to no avail. So, I say cut off the funds. Money talks, and you know what walks.
Conservative PACs with recent track records...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 7:41PM EST (link)as well as those consistantly good/positive Candidates, are indeed where are funds, time, energy, belongs……
Conservative Candidates (the Diary) #PACs
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
The national media find this entire story line utterly uninteresting
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 8:27PM EST (link)And it’s not like they’d have to actually WORK to find out all this stuff. They have not the least bit of curiosity when it comes to Democrats and shenanigans.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Imagine this.....................
bobbymike (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 9:48PM EST (link)“Republicans Senate leaders met behind closed doors to rewrite and partially priviatize Social Security that may result in benefit cuts and eligibilty age increases and no one knows what is in the bill”……….There would be riots in the street
There will be riots in the streets either way....
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 10:43PM EST (link)The socialists are pushing everyone to the max in hopes they can fester social unrest. BOOM, POW, ZAP… here it comes…..
just as the Brownshirts seized power for Hitler.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
"Social Unrest" Would Work in Our Favor, Not Theirs (nt)
IJB Saturday, December 12th at 10:52PM EST (link)I'd love some opinions and answers to this........
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 11:32PM EST (link)At last sum up and with the current “surge”, approximately 83 million Americans legally own approximately 225 million firearms.
How’s the administration gonna try and take ‘em away or say “no you can’t” without tens of millions of bodies on the streets ?
…………..or is that what they want ?………. Civil unrest with things that go bang and boom in the night.
Wanna make a bet Obama/Holder/Napolitano move to Federalize all L.E.O’s before November 2010 ?
What about the IBPO ?
What’s that…. You don’t know The IBPO ?
The International Brotherhood Of Police Officers……. An S.E.I.U. Affiliate.
I’ll stop now….. The black helicopters are coming back over the house again.
Reid is jerking them around
countessolenska Saturday, December 12th at 10:48PM EST (link)Dana Milbank in the Washington Post says it’s all about Reid getting reelected. That’s what’s driving his peculiar behavior. I too almost feel sorry for Durbin.
Milbank’s solution though is to have Schumer or Durbin become majority leader because their states aren’t so difficult to manage. Strange solution!
Why should anybody be briefed-in on anything ?
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, December 12th at 11:24PM EST (link)After all, the “health care” bill has nothing to do with “health” or “care” and is just a simple expansion of Medicare that will end up with mandated coverage of every American within a few years… and you’ll go to prison – or those non-existent FEMA camps – if you refuse to drink the kool-aid,
FY 2010 Budget……. Half-a-Trillion Dollars in earmarks ? Feh….. That’s nothin’… Watch how fast the printing presses at The US Mint work with the new anhydrous lubrication systems we got for $100 at a boat shop.
Sure all of us in Congress are becoming completely irrelevant and when we realize it and try to act it’ll be way too late, because Cass Sunstein “nudged” completely unconstitutional regulations into every aspect of everything in our nation.
Forget that there’s hundreds of thousands of our armed forces men and women being hung out to dry by the current administration with R.O.E.’s that would make Mr. Ghandi say “Y’all are crazy…. Get out there and fight ‘em !”
We have Winter Solstice sales to get to and buy stuff for our mistresses….. er…… assistants and staff. Who has time to read something as mundane as legislation that will completely neuter the Constitution and Bill Of Rights ?
"...and I am in the leadership..."
Steven (Diary) Sunday, December 13th at 2:22AM EST (link)Really?
Something about that passive construct says to me that when it comes to leadership, Durbin doesn’t know his butt from a hot rock.
He’s hardly alone.
Whatever happened to take-charge leaders? Now every statement that procedes from the mouths of “leaders” begins with “I think” or “I feel” or “I believe,” or some lame prevarication that allows room for retreat. Not a single unequivocal statement of fact. Everybody has to have wiggle room. Everybody is “in the leadership” but nobody is a leader.
Compare and contrast: “The buck stops here.” and “I am in the buck stoppage department.”
There’s nothing quite so exhilerating as being shot at… and missed. Winston Churchill
My grandson and Dickie Durbin
RedBeard Sunday, December 13th at 8:13AM EST (link)My three-year-old grandson recently admitted to pushing his one-year-old brother into the coffee table and giving him a bruised cheek.
Dick Durbin just admitted to being a leader of the disreputable political party trying to work an enormous con on America.
The one thing Durbin has in common with the three-year-old is the inability to properly judge right from wrong before acting.
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
Do you think Harry really knows or
johnt Sunday, December 13th at 10:27AM EST (link)understands what’s in the bill? I wouldn’t want anyone to bet their life on it.
Now the stafffers, that’s another story. So Harry, dumb as a paperweight, momentarily grasps what he is told by them.
But even here there’s a problem, because the staffers know and can only know select portions of the monstrosity.
At some time this thing will be sewn and glued together for conference and voting. If it passes it will then fall into the hands of the civil servants. With all the time in the world on their hands and unhindered powers of interpretation that’s when the fun begins.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Maybe the Senate Democrats should learn some lessonsf
GCBWI (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 6:47PM EST (link)from those transparent and accountable folks working for President O..
Never mind.