[BillyBoy]

Gee, all that endless talk during the campaign about we "had to" elect Kirk because he would "stop Obama" during the lame-duck session, and now it turns out he won't even be in the Senate for most of it. And funny how lukewarm the GOP was about helping the other two Republicans running in special elections -- Christine O'Donnell of DE, and John Raese of WV, if it was such a "huge priority" to ensure the RATs wouldn't pass any bad stuff before January.

Another Kirk campaign talking point that got us nowhere. Like all the stuff about how he'd "oppose activist judges" and "lead the fight against Obamacare". Which one will be next? I bet Kirk helps draft a "new" version of cap n' trade and uses the excuse that he would have voted against the "original bill" from the House but this "new" version is "thoughtful and bipartisan" so he's not breaking his campaign promise.

My guess is this little arragement to keep Roland Burris in for the lame-duck session to vote the "right" way was decided during Kirk's little closed-door "beer summit" with his pal Alexi. Kirk had to make some concessions since Alexi "took one for the team"

And some freepers still don't get it. "Kirk might not be such of a RINO in the Senate, let's wait and see and give him a chance" "Brady lost and Kirk won because Brady was too socially conservative and Quinn painted him as anti-woman".

The polling numbers for months are completely at odds with the election results. There's no way Kirk got more votes in suburban Crook when he didn't even campaign there while Brady stumped here endlessly. The numbers in Crook county were fixed. Kirk is in the Senate because the Chicago machine WANTED him there. He takes his marching orders from them.

Any of the Kirk apologists out there who want to prove me wrong, go ahead. Let me know when Obama starts quaking in his boots that the big bad "fiscal conservative" has arrived to "stop him"

[Inyokern]

There's no way Kirk got more votes in suburban Crook when he didn't even campaign there while Brady stumped here endlessly.

Huh? Are you even from Illinois? Kirk is FROM suburban Cook. Brady was unknown in Cook County. Literally unknown. 90% of the people in the Chicago area never heard of him.

[Graybeard58]

In short, Kirk is the same ultra liberal a-hole he's always been - if not worse.

[Inyokern]

My guess is this little arragement to keep Roland Burris in for the lame-duck session to vote the "right" way was decided during Kirk's little closed-door "beer summit" with his pal Alexi.

This is so stupid, I don't know where to begin. If they were going to make a deal like that, why would they do it at the "beer summit" in front of every reporter in town? And, in any case, Kirk has no say in when he gets seated so how could he make a deal about it?

[Dengar01]

The polling numbers for months are completely at odds with the election results. There's no way Kirk got more votes in suburban Crook when he didn't even campaign there while Brady stumped here endlessly. The numbers in Crook county were fixed. Kirk is in the Senate because the Chicago machine WANTED him there. He takes his marching orders from them.

DING DING DING!!!

I went over these numbers like you did there is no doubt Quinn was shoved in by the combine since Brady isn't part of it. The "Beer Summit" made me ill.

We knocked off four dems in the house and had huge conservative output, the city put the fix in as usual.