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Nice try, No cigar, imo.
EVEN IF we could say that Durbin is now regretting his comments against our Fine Military - and trying to push it off on Blaming President Bush - here is what he is saying:
He means that OUR PRESIDENT and HIS ADMINISTRATION are the equivalent of Hitler and the Nazi's and of Stalin and the Gulag's and of Pol Pot and the Killing fields.
Such slander denigrates not only the innocent millions murdered by those mass murdering tyrants but this President and our nation.
The outrage is just as stark, Mr. Dirtbin.
He has only made things worse.
Newt was on Sean this afternoon. He really ripped him another one. I love it when these egotistical clowns drop another one.
Durbin's remarks are functionally the same as the comments Trent Lott made during that Strom Thurmond tribute that resulted in him losing his Senate leadership position. The big exception is that while Lott's comments were made to honor a frail old man, Durbin's were designed to attack the President of the United States through the disparagement of the US military.
If the Democrats want to be anything other then hypocrits, they'll do what many Republicans did with Lott: stand up and demand that a leader of their own party step down.
While that may be the right and proper thing to do, my fervent hope is that they don't. Republicans need to be careful in playing this out: the goal should be to damage Durbin just enough to make him ineffective in his leadership position and an albatross hanging over the Democrat's neck when it comes to the gaining the support of the political center (the reason why the GOP was so smart to quickly get Lott to step down).
If the GOP plays this the right way the Democratic base will be spurred to come out and support Durbin ... putting the Democratic Party in the position of choosing between alienating centrists/independents/conservative Democrats or ticking off their base. Actually, since this seems to be how the whole Dean thing seems to be playing out, the GOP may be looking at a two-fer.
He needs to go on Al-jizz-era TV and apologize. Then we'll make him resign or at least give up the minority whip position.
Ala Trent Lott.
According to these people, dying for their cause is supposed to bring them glory. If this is the case, how can Durbin even consider their plight as anything other than ordained by their god?
It's as though Senator Durbin disrespects their faith and cause by insisting that they be kept alive.
That's a slap in the face to any god fearing Muslim terrorist and smacks of religious persecution!
It would also seem that allowing them to live, when their desire is to die for the cause, is cruel and unusual punishment.
The humane thing for our servicemen to do would be to stop taking prisoners. If we kill every insurgent we find, we can eliminate the torture and humiliation.
If you want our soldiers to respect the Muslim religion as practiced by the terrorists, you must insist that every insurgent be shot dead. Anything else sounds like Christian Conservatism... we know how horrible that is.
Agreed?
Remember the outcry over remarks by Newt, Lott, and other
Republicans. They paid the price by being kicked out of
their leadership positions. That is the least that should
happen to Durbin. His removal or censure is not likely.
Senate libs are too good at protecting their own. GOP members
do not have the ***** to push the issue. That leaves it to
those who voted him into office. America is stuck with this
scum for a long time...