Durbin demands puppy mills shut down

Scanning websites and blogs for interesting tidbits, I ran across this incredible quote this morning from our own U.S. Senator Dick Durbin in the Hartford Connecticut Courant. 

At first glance, I thought he'd finally acknowledged what's happening in every major city throughout his home state, from the Granite City to Chicago to the huge new Planned Parenthood killing facility in Aurora. 

But it wasn't human baby killing centers that horrified Durbin.  It was the Oprah-revealed national scandal of puppy mills.  As quoted by the Hartford Courant:

"It's outrageous. Those puppy mills should [be shut down] and the operators of them prosecuted, but [the U.S. Department of Agriculture] doesn't have enough resources," says Durbin. "And they're not being pushed in that direction. What we wanted to do was to develop basic humane standards [so dogs] are raised in a safe and humane environment.. ."

Oh, that our U.S. Senator was so concerned about little humans.

Comments

[jorod]

You can't say he doesn't know his priorities.

[Jerry]

One of the greatest embarrassments to the Catholic Church - Dick "the Weenie" Durbin

[PhilCollins]

Durbin probably supports this bill because he's running for re-election. Three years ago, he compared our military to Nazis, and he probably hopes that we'll forget about that, in Nov.

[Kent]

It's always confused me how some folks can't be just plain pro-life. Pro human first and foremost, but also pro-animal life. Why do we have to choose? Can't we have both?