Comments on: GOP Rep Gets Loudly Booed By Right, Performs Creative Flip-Flop

By: Bob Armour

Bob Armour — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:13:16 +0000

This won’t be the last time a candidate in this Senate race changes positions. Keep track of all the candidates’ activities on this timeline-

http://timelines.com/topics/us-senate-race-illinois-2010

By: Ellen Edelman

Ellen Edelman — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:55:33 +0000

You have to stop mining, drilling, endless waste. Pull it together’folks.

By: sbj

sbj — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:47:15 +0000

Exactly the same as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on guns.

By: Baby Hugo

Baby Hugo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:35:38 +0000

This guy sounds like a d-bag, but I will say it is still better politics to go ahead and do the flipflop when your feet end up pointing where 70% of the public opinion is pointing. Cap and trade is only popular with the same partisan Democrats that Obamacare is; that is why it is not moving in the Senate either.

And even if you worry about carbon emissions, why go about it in this Rube-Goldberg-style “market” where you give away 85% of the “carbon offset” credits before the game even starts? It can’t lower CO2, it will only grow the government. No one favors this plan unless they are getting their beak wet.

If you believe CO2 is a problem, then you should push for a carbon tax. But you won’t because then people see what the governing clique’s carbonophobia are costing them.

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:57:59 +0000

I liked that when the boos started he immediately invoked a dead serviceman.

By: Sam Simple

Sam Simple — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:26:52 +0000

Yeah, come on! What red-blooded Republican wants to protect the environment? Let’s all swim in our own sewage! Whoopee!

By: Tena

Tena — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:10:32 +0000

“Like in most other states, the extreme right of the Republican base controls the primaries, so he is pandering to them, just like Grassley is doing in neighboring Iowa.”

And Fluffy Hutchison in Texas. She talks out of both sides of her mouth – first she came on in an interview in the Dallas Morning News like the old Moderate Fluffy. Then she must have heard about it, cause she immediately turned around and started talking crazy.

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:06:41 +0000

Well, the thing about Kirk is he has been a fairly moderate Congressman, and that is the nature of his constituency.

Like in most other states, the extreme right of the Republican base controls the primaries, so he is pandering to them, just like Grassley is doing in neighboring Iowa.

Remember the Republican operatives in Illinois are the ones who imported that Alan Keyes crackpot, to run against Barack Obama. That should tell about what Kirk has to deal with in his own party, and he would rather be Senator, than be courageous, and stand by his principles.

By: Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:03:29 +0000

lmsinca, you haven’t been able to access the site? what happens?

By: Tena

Tena — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:51:44 +0000

‘I’m genuinely unclear on what this means. Does his district’s “narrow” interests run counter to those of his state, and will they be forgotten if he makes it into the Senate?”:

I’m with you on this – makes no sense. But then, the Right quit making sense sometime around 1974 or so.

By: Tena

Tena — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:50:15 +0000

O my god – I’m actually here. For now.

I hope it lasts. Thanks Greg.

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:49:41 +0000

He bragged about it in his district. He got heckled about it as he was starting his speech, and when he said that he had voted for cap and trade, he got booed, so he then windsocked immediately.

Look at how he claims that he wants to controls the government spending, and then go take a look at how he voted on President Bush’s budgets, which squandered the budget surplus situation he inherited, and ran up huge deficits.

After that pandering speech, to the extremists in his own party, he has no chance of winning in Illinois.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:39:51 +0000

I didn’t hear him bragging. The people in the crowd wanted him to address cap and trade so he did.

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:37:05 +0000

Except Kirk did not listen and change his mind. He bragged about his vote, and when he got booed, he immediately capitulated to mob rule.

He is just a double talking, windsock. The booes were just the slight gust of hot air that was required to blow him around.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:31:09 +0000

I don’t see how this is a bad thing.

What would you rather have: a senator who makes up his mind and won’t change it, no matter what you say? Or a Senator who is willing to listen and change his mind if he’s wrong?

I prefer the latter, which is why I support Kirk.