Duh, What Did I Say?

dick durbin tries to buy a clue

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Thursday, Dick Durbin took a few precious minutes out from comparing US troops to Nazis and guards in a Soviet gulag to make a world class ass of himself.


Read on.

The exchange goes like this:

SEN. DURBIN: “Finally … a friend of mine and colleague, Senator Ensign of Nevada, came to the floor just yesterday and quoted me. Unfortunately – I’m sure his staff is responsible for this – but Senator Ensign’s quotation was not accurate. …

Unfortunately, Senator Ensign’s staff did not give him the entire quote, and in fairness to him I want to put it in the record so that he gets a chance to read exactly what I said. … I urge his staff to be on their toes.”

[MINUTES LATER] I misread my notes for that statement. I want to clarify that Senator Ensign did, in fact, quote me accurately … I apologize if my earlier statement suggested that Senator Ensign had said something different. He did accurately quote me”

Two observations here. First, either Durbin says so much stuff that he can't keep track of what he says to whom without notes or the man simply reads whatever staff sticks in his hands. Second, maybe I'm just out of date or something, but my Dad taught me to be damned sure before I call someone out (of course, he came from a part of the country where the governing philosopy was "an armed society is a polite society.")

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If it says in the video, forgive me, the sound on our computer is broken, and we haven't fixed it.

But Durbin suffers severely from foot in mouth desease.

The people of Illinois must be very proud to have such a towering intellect representing them as their senior senator.

BTW, Obama invokes Durbin as an authority on things like the Iraq war. I wonder if he should check his notes?

"I'm kind of old-fashioned. I like to engage my brain before my mouth." Donald Rumsfeld

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. -John Adams

First you have to hit them on the nose with a stick to get their attention ...

John
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Liberals: Alchemists who have mastered the ability to transmute Lead into a denser form of Lead

They just take what staff writes and try to make themselves sound important. Doubly so if it is designed to hurt the President or his administration.

I agree with the "call out" part. There was a day when your word meant something, and lying elicited the highest form of disdain.

The left has truly gone berserk. How else do you explain their "throw the Iraqi people to the terrorists policy?"

The 17th Amendment is a stain on the Constitution.

Run like Reagan!

Amen to that. Zell Miller was exactly right. Until the 17th amendment is repealed we will continue to have these moronic senators grandstanding for themselves instead of representing the states as they were intended to do!

The 17th amendment is the biggest abomination in the U.S. Constitution. It gave us the permanent Senate of nut-jobs we have today. The Governors and States interest lost big time when this populist idiocy was put in the Constitution.

than they love America. Let them join Optimist, Lions and Kiwanis in the private sector.

Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

"Two observations here. First, either Durbin says so much stuff that he can't keep track of what he says to whom without notes or the man simply reads whatever staff sticks in his hands.

This foolishness is to get rid of staff. Why do these people need all these unelected, unsupervised people telling them what to do. My suggestion would be have the taxpayers pay for two; one for the Washington office, and one for the home office. If the Senator or Representive wants more, let them pay for them.
We've had reports of staff, babysitting, home watching, and now we've got a Congresswoman saying she needs a bigger airplane to fly her staff home and back, all paid for by US taxpayers.

Who does teach these politicians how to speak and make world class asses out of themselves....Bush?

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

is a freebie on me.

The next is on you.

It's up to you to decide how you want this to play out.

in making the junior Senator look fresh, smart and exciting.

Obama, you owe this tiresome windbag one.

Now that your gasbag is filled, why don't you blow away - the Honeymooners

Someone tapped him on the shoulder and said he better retract or else. His staff should have thought up a better excuse, but they couldn't read it for him. Clucks and clowns, the hope of little liberals everywhere, the people supposed to get America moving again. One group of fools hoping for and supporting a smaller group of fools, both grounded in Reality[?].

"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

But where´s the apology to Ensign´s staff??

I think we should be cautiously optimistic. Success for us is defined by Democrats seeing the light and correcting their erroneous ways.
Shoot on Cashin' In this morning the "cute Democratic Strategist blondie talking head" was advocating free market strategies in the tradition of Bill Clinton (please...) and Blue Dog Democrats. All Brenda Butner could say in reply was something to the effect of, "you're a Democrat, right?"

I don't care who's in power, just implement the correct policies and I'm happy.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

 
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