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Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin has reached the age and tenure at which he might fancy himself a Lion of the Senate, but what a joke after his grubby power play Thursday in the Judiciary Committee. In a rush of rule-breaking at the end of a meeting, Mr. Durbin moved to bluster through subpoenas for two friends of Supreme Court Justices on a partisan vote.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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And there it is – Durbin is finally revealing their grand plan Flood the country with illegal aliens, enlist them in the military, and make them citizens The part he isn’t disclosing is who the Marxists will use the alien soldiers against..
I’ve seen this movie before, just with different actors….Barbarians in the army, feckless roman emperors, the sack of Rome…Imagine if 70 years from now if several rogue army divisions sack DC and burn the declaration of independence…
Lion of the Senate, no. Hyena, or Jackal, arguably.
In the Senate Durbin’s nickname is Turd
Dickie continues to be a major disappointment and embarrassment to all fair-minded and ethical citizens.
“Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!” My hatred of the social democrats was so great that I finally left the Land of Lincoln 2 years ago. Heil Hitler Herr Durban to the New World Odor!