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Voice of The Southern: Illinois will pay for Mark Kirk's nonsense
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 20, 2015 10:01am |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | Southern Illinoisan Editorial Board |
| News Date | Sunday, July 19, 2015 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mark Kirk suddenly has more in common with your unhinged uncle than a deliberative member of the U.S. Senate.
There was last month's "bro with no ho" snafu. He claimed Democrats were defending slavery during Loretta Lynch's vetting for attorney general. He told one newspaper earlier this year that people drive faster through black neighborhoods.
But this past week, the Illinois Republican outdid even himself. And, in so doing, took one more step toward national irrelevance.
President "Barack Hussein Obama" aspires "to get nukes to Iran," he told WRKO radio. The president will be responsible for "tens of thousands" of deaths in the Middle East, apparently, because in Kirk's twisted reality, Obama is Iran's pro-nuke agent. He even likened U.S. negotiators to 1930s European leaders who appeased Adolf Hitler.
This, folks, is what Illinois has sent to the U.S. Senate. Illinoisans thought they elected a center-right fiscal conservative. They instead got the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz, a man more concerned with making a name within his party's fringe than representing his constituents. And Kirk's erratic, self-isolating behavior only hurts the state he's supposed to represent. |
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