Someone please stop this man: Durbin wants second stimulus

My brain might be fried by the Cancun sun...but let's see if I remember this right. While shoving the the $787 economic stimulus boondoggle down our throats--with all of the subtlety of a 19th century patent medicine salesman--the Democrats said unemployment would not exceed 8 percent. It's now at 10 percent.

The Senate's second ranking Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, who nominally represents me, now wants a second stimulus, according to Greg Hinz of Crain's Chicago Business.

The man who was the first politician to call for a special election to select Barack Obama's Senate replacement--something he almost immediately back off of--wants to use $30 or $40 billion unused Troubled Asset Relief Program for infrasture spending on job creation credits.

Here's a novel idea--for Democrats, that is: Give the money back to the taxpayers so the people, not the federal government, can spend their way out of this nasty recession.

As for Durbin, don't blame me--I voted for Steve Sauerberg in 2008.

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