Posted on 01/14/2006 9:05:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Sen. Durbin: U.S. Deserves Honest Leaders
50 minutes ago
America deserves honest leadership in Washington to replace the current Republican-dominated government, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address.
The concentrated power of the current GOP-controlled Congress and executive branch has produced "a culture of corruption that is preventing government from dealing with the real needs of our nation," Durbin said.
In his broadcast, Durbin made several references to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who was slain in 1968 and would have turned 77 on Sunday.
Durbin said that in his last book, King wrote: "'There is nothing wrong with power. The problem is that, in America, the power is unequally divided.'"
That's true in Washington today, Durbin said.
"Powerful corporate special interests control the agenda and people who don't have paid lobbyists really don't have much of a voice," he said. "To these power players, the challenges facing America are not problems to solve, but opportunities to exploit."
Those challenges include the lack of affordable health insurance, dwindling pension plans and rising energy costs, Durbin said.
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This from a scumbag that described our war fighters as terrorists. Keep talking dim wit, keep talking.
Senator Durbin is a slimy charlatan.
He with forked tongue best to keep mouth shut.
Durbin is just horrible. He just doesn't know when to quit.
We will accept your resignation first thing Monday morning Sinator Turbin
MN, according to the likes Durbin et al, Abramoff money is only dirty in the hands of Republicans..
He is a lot worse than that.
Celebrate THAT date in your Martin Luther King Day speeches, Senator Dick (half a word) Durbin!
That's the day your buddy Ted Kennedy's (D-Chappaquiddick) big brother,
that noted legal scholar, Attorney General Robert "No-Nepotism-Here" Kennedy, Jr.
authorized the FBI to begin wiretapping Martin Luther King, Jr.'s phones!
Make sure you invite your other buddy, the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson (and any secretaries he's impregnated lately) to join you.
Culture of Corruption Indeed!
Anyone wanna take a guess what would happen if George W. Bush pulled a JFK and appointed Jeb as Attorney General?
(1) Mr Durbin, is part of that honesty lying about flying missions in Vietnam?
(2) When can we expect your resignation?
I think that what 'pubs know but dims don't realize is that ALL Americans know our politicians are corrupt to varying degrees. But the only the dims come out and say, 'No, not us. Weeeeeeee're not the ones.'
Can you see the 10-foot neon HYPOCRITE sign flashing at midnight above his head?
Kerry will never come clean on his war record and Kennedy will never come clean about his dead secretary!
If we really wanted honest "leaders", the first to go would be Dickhead Durbin followed by his obnoxious little sidekick Obama.
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Durbin has no shame....
He should be ducking, everytime he shows his face in public..
For Durbin to speak against a "culture of corruption", is like thinking of the "Rev." Jesse Jackson and "Rev." Al Sharpton as "men of God"....
Semper Fi
Dick Turban? Sounds like some kinda condom!
Major case of "the pot calling the kettle black." RNC should publish the list of Liberal sleazeballs that took Abramoff money. Print it in every major newspaper in the country and buy television ads and let the credits roll. Always being on the defense sucks. That's not the way to win the current political war.
Dittos - from the other end of the state.
It seems that this is the current attempt to make things happen. Reid, Pelosi and now Durbin singing from the same
old tired voice. Reid is writing in Houston, Delays turf.
Durbin and Pelosi are safe but I don't know about Reid. Perhaps he can be Dacheled.
Justice Alito.
(snicker)
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