Daily Dolt: Mark Kirk
Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) apparently isn’t a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. That, or he just thinks House resolutions are stupid. And they’re especially stupid right now, he says.
The House was going on with its usual Super Bowl resolution Thursday when Kirk took the floor to say he’d had enough.
“It’s a fairly serious point that it’s tremendously distracting to try and get everyone to talk about their favorite football team — and useful if you don’t want people to pay attention to what’s going on behind the scenes,” Kirk told Politico.
House resolutions, he added, are “not serious” and “they demean the reputation of the Congress and give us an image of being people who can’t focus on the issues of the day.”
Kirk wasn’t done.
“If we have many more resolutions, I’ll be encouraging other members to do the same thing. So the speaker may think twice before putting completely irrelevelant distractions on the floor other than business at hand, which is to borrow 2 trillion bucks tomorrow.”
The best is the Andre Aggasi resolution
111th Congress:
4 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2105 East Cook Street in Springfield, Illinois, as the `Colonel John H. Wilson, Jr. Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.516.IH]
33 . Expressing support for designation of September 2009 as `Gospel Music Heritage Month’ and honoring gospel music for its valuable and longstanding contributions to the culture of the… (Introduced in House)[H.J.RES.12.IH]
110th Congress
4 . Whereas 20,000,000 Americans suffer from chronic kidney disease; (Introduced in House)[H.RES.439.IH]
5 . Make Our Veterans Smile Act of 2008 (Introduced in House)[H.R.5595.IH]
9 . Whereas Illinois State University marks its sesquicentennial with a year-long celebration, beginning with Founder’s Day on February 15, 2007; (Introduced in House)[H.RES.57.IH]
10 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the `Lane Evans Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.521.IH]
11 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Vine Street in New Lenox, Illinois, as the `Jacob M. Lowell Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.6681.IH]
12 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the `Owen Lovejoy Princeton Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.2825.IH]
13 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 127 East Locust Street in Fairbury, Illinois, as the `Dr. Francis Townsend Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.2300.IH]
14 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11033 South State Street in Chicago, Illinois, as the `Willye B. White Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.2025.IH]
16 . Expressing support for a National Foster Parents Day. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.179.IH]
17 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 219 East Main Street in West Frankfort, Illinois, as the `Kenneth James Gray Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.6061.IH]
24 . Honoring and supporting the Hadley School for the Blind. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.875.IH]
27 . Expressing the sense of the Congress that there should be established a National Pet Week. (Introduced in House)[H.CON.RES.142.IH]
33 . Recognizing 2008 as the International Year of the Reef. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.1112.IH]
46 . Recognizing and honoring Prevent Blindness America for its 100 years of dedication to preventing blindness and preserving eyesight. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.848.IH]
52 . Whereas in 1946, the George One was a Navy patrol plane involved in Operation Highjump, an expedition in Antarctica led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; (Introduced in House)[H.CON.RES.301.IH]
58 . Recognizing the roles and contributions of America’s teachers to building and enhancing our Nation’s civic, cultural, and economic well-being. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.1130.IH]
70 . Whereas this is the 10th American League Pennant won by the Detroit Tigers; (Introduced in House)[H.RES.488.IH]
80 . Honoring the Detroit Red Wings on winning the 2008 National Hockey League Stanley Cup Championship. (Agreed to by Senate)[S.RES.593.ATS]
105 . Honoring the service and accomplishments of Lieutenant Colonel John M. Shimkus, United States Army Reserve. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.1223.IH]
109th
11 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the `Lane Evans Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.5086.IH]
12 . To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1927 Sangamon Avenue in Springfield, Illinois, as the `J.M. Dietrich Northeast Annex’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.2630.IH]
14 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 105 North Quincy Street in Clinton, Illinois, as the `Gene Vance Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.4805.IH]
16 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 326 South Main Street in Princeton, Illinois, as the `Congressman Owen Lovejoy Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.5426.IH]
17 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2600 Oak Street in St. Charles, Illinois, as the `Jacob L. Frazier Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.3767.IH]
18 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 McDonough Street in Joliet, Illinois, as the `John F. Whiteside Joliet Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.2113.IH]
19 . Designating Room H-139 of the Capitol as the `Henry J. Hyde Room’. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.1087.IH]
20 . To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 202 East Washington Street in Morris, Illinois, as the `Joshua A. Terando Princeton Post Office Building’. (Introduced in House)[H.R.5428.IH]
24 . Whereas the Chicago White Sox won 99 games during the regular season and compiled the best record in the American League; (Introduced in House)[H.CON.RES.281.IH]
39 . Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the death of Glenn Hammond Curtiss and supporting the establishment of Glenn Hammond Curtiss Day to recognize his innovative spirit and legacy. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.374.IH]
55 . Whereas Andre Agassi won 8 Grand Slam singles titles and achieved a total of 60 career singles titles and 1 career doubles title; (Introduced in House)[H.RES.1075.IH]
65 . Whereas Rotary International, founded on February 23, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, is the world’s first service club and one of the largest nonprofit service organizations; (Introduced in House)[H.RES.142.IH]
117 . Whereas on November 13, 2005, the Los Angeles Galaxy won the 2005 Major League Soccer (MLS) championship by defeating the New England Revolution 1-0 in MLS Cup 2005, in Frisco, Texas; (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)[H.RES.574.EH]
120 . Whereas on November 13, 2005, the Los Angeles Galaxy won the 2005 Major League Soccer (MLS) championship by defeating the New England Revolution 1-0 in MLS Cup 2005, in Frisco, Texas; (Introduced in House)[H.RES.574.IH]
That’s only a small sample
STFU.
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Are those res’ Kirk sponsored?
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It’s actually a pretty cool thing what Kirk did. BAMF.
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How is it cool given the rank hypocrisy of sponsoring tons of these sorts of things and then acting like he’s taking a principled stand?
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According to GovTrack: “Mark Kirk has sponsored 88 bills since Jan 3, 2001. of which 84 haven’t made it out of committee and 0 were successfully enacted.” Kirk can’t get a bill passed to save his life. If it were up to Kirk there wouldn’t be a single named post office in the country. Kirk’s claim to sstupic legislation fame includes lots of bills suspending duties on flags, trying to fund statues of state heros, and trying to get a congressional medal of honor for Margaret Thatcher. That’s not to mention his fake Apollo Energy Act that is pretty much a spoof of Jay Inslee’s bill, and the bill expressing his fake concern over Iranian labor rights advocates as if he cares about labor rights advocates in any country, it was a let’s build up grounds for war with Iran bill.
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Wait, that idiot sponsored all of those?
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again here — Kirk comes off as a decent guy in person. I agree with him on a few things but disagree on several others. Such is life.
However, I was rolling on the floor laughing after reading 8141 say he’s a BAMF. I could just see 8141 get all misty-eyed sayin’ it.
Please.