IS DICK DURBIN A TRAITOR?….I’m a little curious about something related to yesterday’s Karl Rove affair. Most of the attention seems to have focused on his “liberals offered therapy and understanding” sentence, but isn’t the following passage really the more serious one?
Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
It’s one thing to make belligerent pronouncements that contrast conservative toughness with liberal wimpiness. It’s nasty and demeaning, but hardly something we haven’t heard before. The Al Jazeera passage, on the other hand, goes considerably further: it says specifically that the motive of Dick Durbin and others who criticize prisoner abuse is to put our troops in danger. He didn’t say Durbin was merely careless, he said Durbin wanted to put our troops in greater danger. That’s treason.
Generally speaking, I tend not to get too bent out of shape by occasional rhetorical howlers. It’s just part of the game. But calling Durbin and his fellow liberals traitors ? which is clearly what that passage suggests ? really is beyond the pale coming from a highly placed political official, isn’t it? Or am I missing something here?
UPDATE: RNC chair Ken Mehlman offered the bizarrely feeble excuse that “Karl didn’t say the Democratic Party. He said liberals.” What’s up with that? Isn’t Dick Durbin a Democrat?
