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Dick Durbin Weighs in on DC Snow

By Kevin Robinson in News on Feb 17, 2010 2:00PM

The Chicago Sun-Times brings us Dick Durbin's take on the massive snowfall in the nation's capitol this month:

"I never could get over how people in this town reacted to snow," he said. "I am convinced that infants born in Washington, D.C., are taken from the arms of their loving mothers right when they are born into a room where someone shows a film of a snowstorm with shrieking and screaming so that those children come to believe snow is a mortal enemy, like a nuclear attack, because I have seen, for over 40 years here, people in this town go into a full-scale panic at the thought of a snowfall."