Back when he was a member of the House, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) was one of a few Republicans who voted for a far-reaching climate change bill. That legislation quickly fueled Tea Party rage, and conservatives went on the attack against the plan’s backers. So Kirk did an about face on the issue, and now blames… Al Gore’s personal life for the whole sorry episode.
“The consensus behind the climate change bill collapsed and then further deteriorated with the personal and political collapse of Vice President [Al] Gore,” Kirk told Greenwire.
Actually, Mark Kirk’s wife divorced him rather recently too. And everyone thinks he’s secretly gay. So perhaps Mark Kirk simply confused Al Gore with himself. That probably happens to boring people like this all the time. [TPM]
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This could be the gayer version of the "Senator Ensign porking his best friend's wife and whining about it" but with a policy wonk spin.
And that's why it's cold outside.
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Yet we keep hearing the same wingtard punch line, "so much for Global Warming" over and over again.
The next time my boyfriend asks me for oral, I am not going to say "No, I don't want to." I will just say "the consensus behind me blowing you collapsed."
Hahahaha: "…consensus behind…"
If he has to ask for it, he probably won't be around much longer anyway.
Spoken like someone not getting any pussy at all.
I'm not worried about your dick, how about returning the favor.
You have a dick? How can you tell?
you know what else will collapse besides the climate change bill if we don't do anything about it? human society itself. but oh well, Al Gore has a personal life.
His sex life isn't ruined. One of the perks of inventing the internet is that you get free membership to Match.com.
People like Kirk make me IL.
Mark Kirk is every ruthlessly ambitious, self-aggrandizing suck-up I have ever known and despised, crammed into an endlessly smug and pathologically lying package, and he represents my state in the Senate.
Thank you, IL Dems, for running Alexi Gia-pet-nnoulias against him.
Sorry but don't blame the Dems – blame the AG for not running. She was the logical choice to blow Kirk out of the water, but she's not gunning for anything higher until her father steps down as Speaker.
Okay, I'll blame Madigan, but I thought she took a pass because she has small children and a job where she has to do zero heavy political lifting.
shoulda been hoffman.
"Actually, Mark Kirk’s wife divorced him rather recently too."
Maybe she just realized that Kirk was as big a bore as Gore.
"Actually, Mark Kirk’s wife divorced her rather recently, too." Fixed.
I used to think the root cause of our problems today was Ronald Reagan. I guess I'm going to have to re-evaluate, with an eye to Al Gore. That bastard.
Well, my 'consensus' definitely collapses every time I think about Al Gore's sex life, so I guess this is plausible.
Is it because lately, when he hugs a tree he lingers?
And here I thought that the consensus changed because all the relatively reasonable Republicans who supported keeping Earth livable for humans were a bunch of selfish cowards who were more concerned about getting teabagged in the primaries than doing the right thing.
Also.
I can sympathize. Seeing Al ram his ovipositor down Tipper's gullet at the DNC kind of made me want to destroy the world, too.
"I'm done!"
When did Al Gore suffer a political and personal collapse (aside from being fucked out of the Presidency a decade or so ago)? From where I sit he's living gangsta, enjoying the Hollywood blow and ho, as it were, and free from dour Tipper to boot.
Jealousy does not become you, Mister Kirk.
Tipper was actually the dynamic one. It's funny how much Bill & Hillary sucked the air right out of any room they were in causing the Gores' to look boring by comparison. Not saying that Al wasn't a little dull, but both he and Tipper had some pretty interesting lives and experiences up until their ascension to the Naval Observatory.
And as the nation shudders under extreme winter storms — IMHO made possible by higher sea temps pushing moisture into the winter air — we can take comfort that Mark "Captain" Kirk has set the Repubican bar for scientific veracity.
I wish the wingers had such high standards of proof for things like WMDs, efficacy of tax cuts, prayer.
A secretly gay Republican? Shocked, shocked. Knock me over with a falafal.
And Senator Kirk is one of the "smart" ones on the other side of the aisle.
There are no smart ones on the other side of the aisle. And few enough on this side either.
Just seeing the words "AL Gore's sex life" has gone and ruined mine. Thanks, Wonkett.
This is a legitimate complaint, says David Broder.
So Mark Kirk is now free to date Lindsey Graham?
Jack LaLanne's death was also responsible for Kirk's change of heart, based on the who-gives-a-fuck-we-are-all-gonna-die-anyway theory.
Kirk has a point, as it has long been proven that sex never occurs when it is warm out.
Maybe Kirk will think again about climate change when the polar bears move to Champaign.
Sorry, don't believe anything my lying senator says. Once a liar, always a liar…
That makes sense, it's like when Bush's daughter was getting falling down drunk in the bars in Austin and caused the war in Iraq to turn bad.
You call it the the collapse of the consensus on climate change; I call it Kirk's complete lack of courage in his convictions.
Alliteration makes everything cooler, you know. Except the planet…it's heating up like a mother.
Hot house tomayto, hot house tomahto.
So, Kirk can't hold onto his women, never won a Nobel, is a proven liar and is about as secretly gay as I am secretly bald. Yeah, I want to listen to this punk, you betcha!
But, but, I thought it was homosexual sex that was an abomination against the Lord and that which brought not-so-natural disasters?
Really, Mark; men in glass underpants shouldn't throw stones…
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