For your summer reading enjoyment.... Mark Kirk learns what his base is all about, the hard way.

Summer is the time for beach reading, chick lit, science fiction, juicy murder mysteries and the like, nothing too heavy or serious. You can delve into the Shopoholic series or try an Anthony Bourdain chef/mystery book. But, if you're in the mood for some real entertainment, you can stick to the Internet and Google (or Bing) Mark Kirk.

Here's a new site from his senate primary opponent from the right. The best part of that site discusses the rumors about Kirk's divorce, but neglects to mention it's actually the source of the rumors. Good for a laugh.

Democrats really don't care that Kirk got a divorce or why Kirk got a divorce. We don't belong to the Arthur Dimmesdale crowd like the other hypocritical followers of Mark Sanford. However, we do care that Kirk's against re-regulating financial institutions, the deregulation of which brought us the real estate crash, the banking crash, the insurance crash, Enron and guys like Bernie Madoff. We also care that he's against regulating agriculture and pharma the current state of which bring us recall after recall of bad food and dangerous and expensive medicines. He's against health care for the uninsured and underinsured and, of course, he's proudly against economic stimulus. Many of us are also reluctant to forget that he lied to get us into a war and supported the Bush administration in conducting and hiding illegal torture.

After imagining what's in that divorce record along with Andy Martin, you can take a click over to Capitor Fax where they've posted some choice comments from Kirk's former fan club. I have to agree with them on one point: this is just about the funniest video I've ever seen out of Kirk's office (although not nearly as funny as this one). I wonder if Kirk would take a test to prove he's read ACES, all 1092 (or so) pages of it.

Twittering Kirk is another facinating past time. Just go to your Twitter account and put his name into search. There you'll find this interesting site claiming that Mark Kirk kills jobs. He would if he could, but not for the reasons they cite. He wanted to stop stimulus and that would have done it. Good thing his vote doesn't count for too much with the Democratic majority.

It appears that playing the procedural votes and voting for the doomed republican alternative to ACES along with his ACES yes vote might not work for him this time. Funny, Kirk's supporters never cared before that he's made an 8 year career out of playing the procedural votes.

For Kirk's party, he's always been happy to take advantage of people whipped up into a fear frenzy based on lies. I wonder how he's going to like being on the receiving end of that. It would be nice if it at least it made him think that, just maybe, scaring people for votes isn't real leadership after all.

So, how is Kirk going to win his senate seat or keep his house seat? His usual standing for nothing but his own election might be a winner if he can keep his base too afraid to vote for his primary opponent, but that might be a problem in 2010 as his supporters grow increasingly frustrated in a country that generally wants to trust President Obama and hopes he succeeds while they want him and it to fail. Kirk's old supporters are saying they want to give him to the Democrats, but we don't want him. Democrats aren't done trying to fix what Reagan and two Bushes did to our country. Kirk's way too steeped in the destruction for any of us to be interested in him on the reconstruction side.

So, will Kirk try to eak it out from where he is on the voting spectrum or is he going to be pushed even further toward the edge of right wing insanity? It will probably depend on which way the wind blows. In any event, it's going to be a summer of entertainment for we here in the normal, thinking crowd.