The
story started about Mark Kirk's attempt to distance himself from the Bush Administration, but it ended with Dan Seals, the true thoughtful and independent candidate.
CBS 2 in Chicago reported on Mark Kirk's as of yet unsuccessful attempt to distance himself from the Bush administration. Weekend anchor and weekday reporter,
Mike Parker, reported on a Kirk radio ad wherein he stresses his independence. Parker says:
The commercial uses the term "independent" three times in half a minute and points to his opposition to Bush on stem cell research.
What Parker is referring to is Kirk's brag about leading the failed charge against Bush's stem cell reserch veto, but that doesn't seem to me to be much to brag about primarily because it failed and also because just getting the up or down vote seems to have involved some dealing with Hastert to "
not engage in parliamentary maneuvers to lead to more debate and will not back Democratic attempts to attach Castle- DeGette as riders on other bills. " So much for Kirk's thoughtfulness and independence or going to the max for the issue. Kirk's current position seems to be something like Oh, well,
Bush will be out of office one day...
Here's what Dan Seals had to say to Parker when asked about Kirk's independence from Bush:
He's the assistant majority whip of the Republican Party. You don't get to be whip by having a strong independent streak.
Parker further reported:
Kirk is still a supporter of the bush war policy, but has been critical of the flawed intelligence that pushed the us to invade Iraq.
I don't remember hearing Kirk be critical of anything having to do with Bush's Iraq policy. He helped spread the "intelligence" that led up to the war
on the House floor in 2002,
supported the 2003 invasion and campaigned on it in 2004. In 2005, he was still saying stay the course. Now he's hiding from constituents on the issue prefering to talk about
peanut allergies.