Dick "Dick" Durbin

Michelle Malkin has an excellent roundup of news and views about the Idiot from Illinois, Dick Durbin. For those of you who haven't been reading your blogs, Sen Durbiun (D - Illinois) compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol-Pot, and Stalin. Because, of course, choosing interrogation methods that are deliberately designed not to injure prisoners is exactly the same as deliberately killing civillians as cruelly and as frequently as possible. At least in Dick's world.

He compounded his offense today by issuing a self-righteous statement and refusing to apologize. I seldom use strong language, but Durbin is a contemptable opportunisitic asshole. And every Democratic senator who tries to let him slide on this is rapidly heading in that same direction.

UPDATE: Lileks writes about this today on his new Screedblog:

And why do I keep talking about this? Because they do. As the Durban flap demonstrates: It just never ends. And it won’t. There’s too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they’ve shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they’re parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

You should read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Durbin finally says he's sorry. I still think he's a doofus, but he seems sincere. Apology accepted.