Durbin Committing Political Suicide?
Posted By: 'Okie' | 3:59 pm — 6/16/2005 | 
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Hugh Hewitt is playing audio from the floor of the Senate with Minority Whip Richard J. [”Dick”] Durbin, Illinois Democrat, backpeddling all over the place, trying to convince us all that he never slandered our men and women in uniform with his GITMO remarks yesterday, then goes ahead and repeats the slanderous remarks again, plus a whole lot more!
Poor, poor li’l crybaby Dick Durbin, he wants all us center right bloggers and talk radio people to take a “time out” and stop calling him a traitor, and worse. Such as? Well, Powerline puts it this way:
Here is one metaphor by which I am willing to stand. Senators Leahy and Durbin are more fit to reconstitute the Democratic Party as a branch of the Peoples Temple than to hold high office. They are more fit to lead a doomsday cult devoted to drinking poison Kool-Aid than they are to serve as United States Senators.
Captain Ed at Captain’s Quarters:
And Durbin, who should know better, has the nerve to compare American soldiers to Nazis and Gitmo to the extermination camps they ran. If Durbin can’t recall that the Nazis exterminated millions of people, deliberately, in those camps, I’m certain that Holocaust survivors in Illinois and elsewhere can remind him of that fact. If the Senator doesn’t know about the estimated 2 million people who died in the gulag system, a system that was used primarily on internal political dissidents to suppress opposition to Stalin, then he should read his Solzhenitsyn. If he thinks that American soldiers operate on the same basis as Cambodia and the killing fields, he’s out of his mind.
At Froggy Ruminations the anger is palpable:
To impugn them and their sacrifices by comparing them to Nazis, gulag guards, and the Khmer Rouge is the basest and most shameful act of ingratitude and treason that I have ever heard from the mouth of a sitting US Senator. Durbin stands alone in the pantheon of political hate speech, and he deserves to be recalled in shame from his position of responsibility.
Now Hugh is cutting away to C-SPAN “live”. Sounds like a prelude to censure, as per Hugh. He’s asking everyone to contact Senate leader Frist and demand that Durbin be censured.
More, when there’s more, especially when his comments of today are published. (db)
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