Durbin has no sense

Well, one of my senators is Richard Durbin. Best known, if known at all, outside of Illinois as an obstructionist.

When he came to the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board in 2002 seeking the Trib's endorsement, they questioned the Springfield Democrat on his role in blocking the approval of President Bush's judicial nominees. His answer to the Trib was something along the lines of, "Well, that's what the Republicans did under Clinton." Some leader, the Tribune sarcastically retorted in it's op-ed endorsing his challenger, Republican Jim Durkin.

Some of those judicial nominees are just now getting getting approved by the senate.

Well, Durbin---what does he stand for, by the way? -- has joined the anti-Gitmo catcallers, by coughing up this quote, which the White House called "reprehensible."

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime _ Pol Pot or others _ that had no concern for human beings," Durbin said.

On Fox & Friends this morning, E.D. Hill commented that she's shocked about the "lack of intelligence this man (Durbin) possesses. He has no sense of history."

I'd like to take a bit past that, and add, Durbin has no sense.