Add Illinois Senator Dick Durbin to the list of Democrats now second guessing their past tough-on-crime votes:
"We overreacted." — @DickDurbin just now to me on the Crime Bill and Democrats support for mass incarceration.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 1, 2015
Oh, please. He was just praising Illinois’ Thompson Prison — a once planned replacement for Guantanamo Bay — as a job creator:
Durbin today – "We overreacted" https://t.co/v7l4qzZDHM
Durbin praising incarceration last Augusthttps://t.co/rnxXgLbK7Q— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 1, 2015
These two tweets from @SenatorDurbin are priceless. pic.twitter.com/lX0rdgjjbC
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) August 19, 2014
Durbin literally campaigned on Thompson prison as an economic plan for IL last year. His GOP opponent pointed this out but no one cared.
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) May 1, 2015
And from 2011. Prisons count as stimulus spending maybe?
I’ll be on @KWQCnews at 6:45AM CT to talk about creating jobs by putting Thomson Prison to use without transferring Gitmo detainees
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) April 5, 2011
Hillary Clinton, too, is a giant hypocrite. Here she is in 1994:
“We need more and tougher prison sentences," –@HillaryClinton, 1994 http://t.co/zMeI2owygt
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) May 1, 2015
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Her husband, of course, campaigned on it and signed much of today’s now hated-by-Dems policies into law:
@politico These same so called black leaders are the people who voted for @billclinton Tough on Crime Bill.
— A Pink (@IamAndyAPink) May 1, 2015
https://twitter.com/waywardteen/status/593962702193696770
The explosion of the prison system under Bill Clinton’s version of the “War on Drugs” is impossible to dispute. http://t.co/GOhXXnl97J
— Diane Lange (@DclareDiane) April 30, 2015
Joe Biden, if he ever decides to run in 2016, has an issue with this, too:
@maddow reminds us of the major role @JoeBiden played in passing tough on crime legislation during @billclinton presidency. #neoliberalism
— Sheena R (@Policy_Watchdog) May 1, 2015
But Hillary Clinton, now, is singing and entirely different tune:
End mass incarceration. Address inequality. Restore trust between law enforcement & communities. Read this & share: http://t.co/WdnFuT8tjo
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 29, 2015
What a hypocrite:
The fact that @HillaryClinton is even daring to try to brand herself as someone fighting the prison industrial complex is hilarious to me.
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) May 1, 2015
How can you complain about how many ppl are behind bars when you know you pushed the policies that put them there? @HillaryClinton
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) May 1, 2015
"It's time to end the era of mass incarceration… because it seems that now that's the trendy thing to say you want to do."-@HillaryClinton
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) May 1, 2015
Pretty much.
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