The Durbin who was elected to the House in the 80s is not the Durbin you see today. He was a fighter, especially for farmers and blue collar workers. He seemed to lose his edge after getting into the senate.
The Durbin who was elected to the House in the 80s is not the Durbin you see today. He was a fighter, especially for farmers and blue collar workers. He seemed to lose his edge after getting into the senate.
IDK i feel like some of these guys get lost in the minutiae of running the place and forget why they're there. I didn't help that he got old and that tends to slow people down.
Durbin is an institutionalist and a very decent human being. In less politically-polarized times he would have been excellent. But heтАЩs simply not the fighter that we need right now.
The last great principled thing Durbin did was being consistently against the Iraq War. He has a history more in common with Nancy Pelosi in this sense (Pelosi voted against the Iraq War).
The Durbin who was elected to the House in the 80s is not the Durbin you see today. He was a fighter, especially for farmers and blue collar workers. He seemed to lose his edge after getting into the senate.
I don't doubt it at all. I don't think he's been all THAT bad until the last 10 years when we needed something different from business as usual.
IDK i feel like some of these guys get lost in the minutiae of running the place and forget why they're there. I didn't help that he got old and that tends to slow people down.
Durbin is an institutionalist and a very decent human being. In less politically-polarized times he would have been excellent. But heтАЩs simply not the fighter that we need right now.
The last great principled thing Durbin did was being consistently against the Iraq War. He has a history more in common with Nancy Pelosi in this sense (Pelosi voted against the Iraq War).