Mark Kirk

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• Il-SEN: More Kirk Scare Tactics (UPDATED w/Hoffman, Giannoulias responses)

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 648
  While railing against the Democrats health care reform bills this year, GOP Rep. Mark Kirk has repeatedly played fast and loose with some key facts. But in an email to supporters of his U.S. Senatecampaign today, he takes his truthiness to a whole new level. The subject of the email is "Could the Government Deny ...
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• Miller: Kirk "Abandons His Principles"

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 648
  In his Sun-Times column last week, Rich Miller revisited Rep. Mark Kirks various flip-flops since entering the race for U.S. Senate.  He noted that all this maneuvering has resulted in something that would have seemed unthinkable a few months ago: In recent weeks, the Chicago media has turned against the North ...
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• Weekend News Round-Up (Thanksgiving Edition)

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 648
  Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  Heres the latest from the Illinois political scene: Cross Attempts To Slow Down Thomson Deal Illinois House Republican Leader Tom Cross is attempting to stall a proposed deal in which the state will lease Thomson Correctional Center to the federal government to house ...
  3 days ago

• Obamacare Omen from the U.K.

  
  Malignant Liberal Idiocy — Authority: 113
  The FFT (Feckless Fifty-Two point seven percent of those who voted in the 2008 election) have set the car on fire, cut the brake lines, and pushed it off the plateau and it is barreling down a steep slope. There is an occasional explosion as the flame reaches certain areas. Some of the explosions are set off with the ...
  4 days ago

• iePolitics: The Story No One Knows

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 449
  For those of you who hate it when I discuss personal issues on the blog, well, get over it and it’s probably not a good idea to read this post.  Tomorrow we will get back to politics.  But tonight I feel like I owe an explanation or two. It’s been no secret that I suffer from major depression.  It was a secret ...
  5 days ago

• A Must-Read on China and the Deficit

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  Chris Hayes had a  great column in The Nation last week about the totemic status of our debt to China: But if domestic Chinese concerns about the countrys monetary codependence with the United States explain some of the statements of the countrys leaders, they dont explain why the US media and commentators seem ...
  6 days ago

• Ill. GOP: Four key questions for Alexi Giannoulias

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 578
  The Illinois Republican Party has an inquiring mind today. Four Key Questions for Alexi Giannoulias 1) Alexi, were you briefed by the National Security Council on the Thomson/Gitmo plan or did you exaggerate? Background: On Friday, Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias told WLS 890’s Don Wade and ...
  1 week ago

• White House worried about Giannoulias Senate candidacy

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 578
  As the New York Times reports, the White House is worried about keeping the Senate seat currently held by Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich) in the hands of the Democratic Party. David Axelrod admits it. Mr. Axelrod concedes that he and Mr. Obama failed to persuade Attorney General Lisa Madigan to run for the Senate ...
  1 week ago

• Following His Freak-Out, Kirk Opts For "Dispassionate" Approach

  
  Progress Illinois - — Authority: 648
  What a difference a week makes. Last Thursday, the Illinois Republican delegation issued a series of questions for Gov. Pat Quinn regarding his plan to allow the federal governmentto incarcerate former Guantanamo Bay detainees at the ThomsonCorrectional Center. The letters opening sentence called for a"dignified and ...
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• Pressure From the Right: GOP Candidates Bet On Obama Fatigue

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Senate , Republicans , Primaries , 2010 Elections , Conservatives John McCain rails against a bipartisan global warming bill two years after sponsoring one himself? He says hes "dear friends" with Sarah Palin and enjoyed her book? The one that trashes his 2008 presidential campaign? Strange, I ...
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• Illinois 2010 Elections: Dan Seals, Ann Williams and Jacob Meister Have a Tip for Dan Hynes–Psst–”It’s Jobs”

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 501
  Dan Seals (Chicago, IL) — November 20, 2009 . “I was walking last week in Arlington Heights, and the first three homes I visited had at least one family member unemployed.  At one home, both the husband and wife were unemployed and couldn’t find work.  She was so upset that she could barely talk about their ...
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• Terror fears scarier than Guantanamo Bay suspects in the Heartland

  
  "600 words by Esther J. Cepeda" — Authority: 115
  "600 Words by Esther J. Cepeda" What’s far scarier than the thought of Guantanamo Bay terrorist suspects cooling their heels behind maximum security bars in Thomson, Illinois? Fear-mongered people – already stretched to the limits due to the ravages the economy has inflicted – acting out against anyone who ...
  1 week ago

• SBSun: County supervisors plan meeting on filling top county post

  
  iePolitics.com — Authority: 449
  Discussion planned December 1 Joe Nelson, Staff Writer Posted: 11/18/2009 09:50:40 PM PST > >Board of Supervisors Chairman Gary Ovitt will call for a closed-door meeting Dec. 1 to discuss the selection process for a new San Bernardino County chief administrative officer, his top aide said ...
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• From Kabul to Colorado

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 136
  We realize that the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to American soil is a complex problem and that people can object in good faith. But some of the rhetoric from the right on the issue has gone from NIMBY to just plain DSM-IV . Here are four of the stranger quotes from public officials: --In light of this ...
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• Congressional Republicans Continue Brave Anti-Terrorist Stance

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  Illinois Rep. Mark Kirk, and his dog, are tough on terrorism The Washington Post’s Perry Bacon reports on an encouraging Senate vote for the Obama administration: a vote yesterday failed to deny the Obama administration funds to modify U.S. prisons so they can hold re-settled Guantanamo detainees.  This means ...
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• Mark Kirk deservedly blasted for alarmist stance on Thomson prison proposal

  
  Applesauce — Authority: 146
  U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, a candidate for the Republican nomination to succeed Roland Burris in the U.S. Senate, is getting A LOT OF HEAT for his craven fearmongering in the controversy over the proposed transfer of Gitmo detainees to an underutilized state prison in northwestern Illinois.
  2 weeks ago

• Where Do You Put 100 Terrorist Prisoners?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  The news this weekend that the administration is considering moving up to 100 Guantanamo prisoners to a little-used facility in northwest Illinois makes you wonder about the political calculation involved in the decision. As regular readers of TNR will recall, local politics has basically killed the idea of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Move To The Right, Suffer At The Polls (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 431
  That’s what we’re learning from Delaware’s 2010 GOP Senate candidate, Mike Castle:This is one of the more surprising polls I’ve seen recently: Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of the vice president, is leading Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) in a hypothetical 2010 U.S. Senate matchup. The Susquehanna ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) flunks geography

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff From the Department of I Are a Colluj Grad-U-Ut: This morning, while appearing on Chicagos FOX32, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) who is running for the Republican nomination for US Senate in Illinois, referred to the proposal to move terror suspects to the Thomson Correctional Center as the "Great Lakes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alexi Giannoulis--still cant make up his mind about Gitmo North

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 578
  In many ways, Alexi Giannoulias is channeling Barack Obama as he runs for the US Senate. He mentioned Obama five times during his when he declared his intention to run for the presidents old seat, one of his earliest supporters was Obamas favorite union, SEIU, he even copies mannerisms. And he is apparently just as ...
  2 weeks ago

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