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Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) now appears to have taken a bold step in the debate over the budget deficit: Openly telling a foreign government not to trust the administration in Washington.

The Straits Times reports that Kirk spoke to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, and discussed a meeting he had with Chinese leaders.

"One of the messages I had -- because we need to build trust and confidence in our number one creditor," said Kirk, "is that the budget numbers that the US government had put forward should not be believed. The Congress is actually gonna spend quite a bit more than what's in the budget, and the health-care bill probably being the lead driver of additional spending by the Congress."

A request for comment to Kirk's office has not yet been returned.

Nothing like a goverment official going behind his governments back with secret meetings to try and spread mis-trust to a cruical ally at a critical time. All to halt a political fight he may lose at home. I thought the Dems were the commie loving sell-outs. And he did so with such old tired talking points. Finally he didn't seem to mind before when the cost of the war was covered up for 7 years.

Edit: can any Law knowing person tell me if this is in violation of The Logan Act?


Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Chickenbutt.

The truth will set us free (after driving us into recession II of course).

Better put all those Congressmen who went to Cuba and Venezuela in jail then. Oh wait they are Democrats...

Honestly, Kirk is an idiot. I don't know why he would mention to anyone, especially at CSIS, that he said what he did.

dogma wrote:Honestly, Kirk is an idiot. I don't know why he would mention to anyone, especially at CSIS, that he said what he did.

Well poltician=idiot+snake, so yea you're probably 100% accurate.

Frazzled wrote:Well poltician=idiot+snake, so yea you're probably 100% accurate.

I find that insulting to snakes and idiots everywhere. They're a higher lifeform than a politician, who is somewhere below lawyer.

This is true.