Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Tired of arrogant Democrats yet?

Senator to Students: I Don't Give a 'Tick's Shit


Two students say the leading Democrat blasted their school during debate over a bid to tighten federal college loans. Lloyd Grove on the fallout—and the hot issue on for-profit campuses this fall.

Maybe Illinois' Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate, was having a rough morning. Or maybe he was simply making his point as memorably—and colorfully—as he could.

Whatever the case, students at the Illinois Institute of Art—a player in the burgeoning for-profit education industry that Durbin has been assailing of late—say they’re offended by the way the assistant Senate majority leader dismissed their concerns about a proposed new government regulation that would severely limit their eligibility for federally subsidized grants and loans.

“I don’t give a tick’s shit about I-L-I-S or any of these other guys,” witnesses say Durbin told sign-carrying student-protesters on a downtown Chicago sidewalk.Continue reading

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