Could Dick Durbin Just Hurry Up and Go Away? | The American Spectator

The old joke is “Dick Durbin. Before he dicks you.”

Why nobody ever used it as a campaign slogan, I really don’t know. It might be a little downscale as rhetorical flourishes go, but it has the benefit of being perfectly descriptive of the plight the Illinois senator has inflicted on the American people since…

How long has this man been at the levers of American governmental power? Has he always been there? Was he one of the marauding British troops who sacked Washington in the War of 1812 and simply stayed on to continue the pillaging?

Not quite. It turns out that Durbin was first elected to the Senate in the 1996 elections, having spent 14 years as a congressman prior to that. (RELATED: Chicago’s Cardinal Doubles Down on Honoring Pro-Abortion Politician)

He’s leaving the Senate after next year’s election cycle, finally giving us a respite from his style of Chicago machine governance after 44 years.

Nobody should be a princeling on Capitol Hill for 44 years. It’s impossible to calculate the psychic and moral damage that much time in power will do to a person.

And it’s done plenty to Durbin.

The last thing of true substance he’ll have done was to shepherd the confirmation of the least-qualified and least-intelligent Supreme Court justice in modern memory as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That was Ketanji Brown Jackson, an explicit DEI hire by the corporate Joe Biden, who during the committee hearings couldn’t answer the question of what a woman is:

That should have been the end of Jackson’s nomination. But Durbin did as he was ordered and moved her through the committee, and she’s made the Supreme Court measurably worse since. (RELATED: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gleaned the Wrong Message From Sesame Street)

So nice job, Dick.

The Democrats lost the Senate majority last year, which made Durbin less dangerous. He’s reduced to things like voting to filibuster a budget continuing resolution because it doesn’t fund healthcare for illegal aliens or subsidize out-of-control premiums for Obamacare, something Durbin was integral in passing and which has been a rolling disaster for American health insurance ever since. There’s a solution to the Obamacare problem, but Duck Durbin won’t be part of it.

And he says things. Lots of them. Most of the things coming out of Dick Durbin’s flytrap are ridiculous.

Here’s an example…

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II while speaking Monday at the U.S. Capitol during a Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on immigration enforcement. (RELATED: The Terrorists’ New Weapon — Doxxing LEOs)

To be fair, Chicago’s idiot mayor, Brandon Johnson, had something even dumber to say on ICE and illegal immigration this week, and I’ll digress just a bit to let you see that video. It’s relevant to this, as I’ll explain below…

Johnson was trying to sell his city’s budget plan, which amounts to pillaging the bank accounts of every one of Durbin’s Chicagoan upper-middle-class constituents so as to give a heavy dusting of swag to the people he refuses to call illegal aliens.

Who aren’t citizens of the United States and who also aren’t Chicagoans.

And here’s Durbin, who says that ICE taking them away — particularly given that the majority of the people currently being deported have committed crimes beyond just spilling in from our border — is akin to the Japanese internment camps set up by his fellow Democrats who ran the government back in the early 1940s.

Hey Dick, those were American citizens FDR put in those camps, y’know. The people ICE is detaining on their way home?

Not American citizens.

It’s pretty demeaning to those Japanese-Americans who had to put up with being imprisoned by their own government during a war that he’s equating them with Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangbangers, Social Security identity thieves, human traffickers, purveyors of child labor, cartel drug mules, and all the other Star Wars cantina scene denizens who are busy ripping off the American people in countless ways. (RELATED: The Geography of Defiance)

But ripping off the American people is what Dick Durbin respects. Does this come off as “parallel” to Japanese internment?

Explain this to South Siders in Chicago Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Raja Krishnamoorthi, and J B Pritzker. Own what you are doing to constituents. Prioritizing illegals over Citizens??? This should outrage people about to lose their SNAP and EBT benefits. Own it Democrats!! https://t.co/NHqZkBpyw0

— Silas Dogood (@DAschenbre83317) October 29, 2025

There’s more:

Durbin’s comparison comes amid a long record of engagement on immigration issues. Over the years, he has defended expansive immigration measures, opposed restrictions on illegal aliens, and frequently linked America’s identity to immigration.

In March 2024, Durbin blocked a Republican-backed bill that would have required ICE to automatically detain illegal aliens charged with violent crimes, arguing the proposal would deprive immigrants of due process. The measure, introduced by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), sought to detain suspects pending trial to prevent their release under lenient local policies.

Earlier this year, Durbin also marked the 12-year anniversary of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by calling its beneficiaries “the future of our country.” He has repeatedly pushed for passage of his DREAM Act, which would provide permanent legal status and a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens.

Durbin’s emphasis on protecting foreign nationals has drawn attention throughout his career. In 2018, he told NPR that the United States must remain a “nation of immigrants,” describing diversity as America’s strength and rejecting efforts to scale back legal immigration. That stance reflected his decades-long leadership on the issue, dating back to his original introduction of the DREAM Act alongside former Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT).

Durbin’s immigration activism has at times sparked controversy. In 2013, he spoke at Chicago’s May Day march, which featured open socialists and anarchists, where he urged the crowd to fight for “immigration reform.” When questioned about his participation, Durbin explained his attendance on free-speech grounds, saying he believed in the Constitution’s protection of expression for all groups.

Yeah, OK. Big free speech booster, this guy. Sure. He’s all about openness and transparency and dialogue in “our democracy”:

BREAKING: Senator Marsha Blackburn and Bondi just LEVELED Durbin after he tried to DENY obstructing her subpoena on Epsteins flight logs under Biden:

Bondi: “I find it VERY INTERESTING that you refused repeated Republican requests to release the Epstein flight log in 2023 and… pic.twitter.com/zKOpQJ89PI

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 7, 2025

Not to mention that he’ll throw out any old line he’s given. What do you think the effect is of calling your political detractors terrorists from the U.S. Senate? Is that an endorsement of free speech that you don’t agree with, like he says he’s for when he gets called out for hanging around with murderous communists?

Oh, yeah. Because this happened on Wednesday.

WATCH: Sen. Dick Durbin says that “far right extremists have been responsible for most domestic terrorism.”pic.twitter.com/pSX79FPOTv

— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) October 29, 2025

He’s not for free speech, just like he’s not for the truth.

He’s for power.

Forty-four years drunk on it.

Get that Dick out of here. Good grief.

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