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Durbin lashes out at Bush
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin met with Macomb area residents Tuesday to discuss concerns about the Bush administration
Jason Nevel
Issue date: 7/5/07 Section: News
Durbin also acknowledged the need for better health care for Iraq War veterans and emphasized how much of a problem traumatic brain injury has become with the veterans. Durbin discussed the Senate's recently passed legislation on a bill that would raise the average fuel economy standards from 25 miles per gallon to 35 miles per gallon over the next 10 years and the country's need to look at alternative energy sources as a serious option.
Durbin fielded questions from the audience about the crisis in Darfur, which is located in Sudan. Bush declared genocide in Darfur in 2004, but Durbin said the administration has done nothing to counter it and compared it to Rwanda's genocide in 1994.
"About once every two weeks we had a meeting in the White House ... I used my chance to bring up Darfur and I told the president 'I congratulate you on declaring a genocide and you also said not on my watch," Durbin said. "I said, 'Mr. President, your watch is about to end and you've done nothing.'"
Durbin is up for re-election to the United States Senate in 2008. If he is elected it will be his third consecutive term.
Durbin fielded questions from the audience about the crisis in Darfur, which is located in Sudan. Bush declared genocide in Darfur in 2004, but Durbin said the administration has done nothing to counter it and compared it to Rwanda's genocide in 1994.
"About once every two weeks we had a meeting in the White House ... I used my chance to bring up Darfur and I told the president 'I congratulate you on declaring a genocide and you also said not on my watch," Durbin said. "I said, 'Mr. President, your watch is about to end and you've done nothing.'"
Durbin is up for re-election to the United States Senate in 2008. If he is elected it will be his third consecutive term.
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tslager85
Ted
posted 7/05/07 @ 12:39 PM CST
And where is Mr. Durbin's criticism of his master, Bill Clinton, who pardoned 147 - yes, 147 - people and commutated the sentences of a further 38?
And where does Mr. (Continued…)
MCR 3
x di
posted 7/06/07 @ 12:25 AM CST
slager 85,
Don't you know that you're in a Democratic backed forum here? Tim is probably the Democratic Party Chair for McDonough County and Bob Cook is a past Chair. (Continued…)
Otis Alum in FL
posted 7/06/07 @ 12:44 PM CST
Hey Durbin how about invasion USA? I see you voted not to secure our borders and to allow millions of illegal aliens the right to live amongst us while folks applying for a visa the legal way sit in their countries for years. (Continued…)
Mark Hartzer
posted 7/19/07 @ 8:52 PM CST
Go Durbin!
You really have to wonder who is stupid enough to be a Republican these days.
Drug rehab
posted 3/27/08 @ 4:03 PM CST
Thank you for the list, should I believe that Bush has a thing for drug dealers? I don't know about his judgment but it must be pretty hard to decide who's going out and who stays behind bars. (Continued…)
executive privilege
posted 3/27/08 @ 4:28 PM CST
None of this matters. You can argue the same thing between Clinton, Bush, and probably most other Presidents. It is a privilege reserved for the President. (Continued…)
x di
posted 3/28/08 @ 12:25 AM CST
Yes, Tim Frier has all the answers! He doesn't do anything but sit in his little retreat (west side of Macomb) and do nothing but political crap. I can't believe the local Democratic Party still allows him to be their chief after he spent time with a known Peoria hooker and she stole a credit card belonging to the McDonough County Democratic Party!! What an embarrassment!! At least to someone with some morals, anyway. (Continued…)
Private Drug Rehab
posted 8/13/08 @ 12:36 PM CST
"It turns out there are four: the executive, the legislative, the judicial and the Cheney branch"? Is he serious?
Frank Joopiter
posted 12/19/08 @ 5:46 PM CST
Ah, the GOP is paranoid as usual. Republicans think there's a Liberal behind every tree, stalking them ... ready to pounce on them. You have to feel sorry for the whole bunch, they live in such agonizing fear. (Continued…)
pat
posted 12/21/08 @ 10:09 PM CST
Durbin is an ass.
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