Senator Durbin gets it! Points out the major flaw of the Senate's lobbying bill.

[flpoljunkie]

But Democratic Whip Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said the lobbying bill falls short of addressing the bigger question of the financing of political campaigns. The bill would ban a lobbyist from buying him lunch, he said, but "tomorrow that same lobbyist can have me over for lunch at his lobbying firm to provide campaign funds for my reelection campaign and its perfectly legal."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901201.html

Kudos to Senator Dick Durbin! What the Democrats have proposed and the House has recently passed is a start, but in no way keeps our Congress from being beholden to the same lobbyists who serve as their campaign fundraisers--and not the American people.

[Tinksrival]

1. Dick Durbin is the Clark Kent of the Senate

One of the best ever and he's mine! :loveya:
Wish they could all be like my Durbin!

[Mist]

2. I love and admire Durbin too--here's something for you, Tinksrival! :

[Tinksrival]

7. Ha!Ha! Too cool!

It's a bird....It's a plane....It's Dick Durbin!

[ellisonz]

6. True.

:rofl:

[ellisonz]

3. That's democracy.

And more ethics reform will come after other business gets handled.

[RB TexLa]

4. They only promised to propose this one, let's not get carried away

[ellisonz]

5. And we have 2 more years to go...

So let's not get carried away either.

:pals: