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Earlier today, bloggers Reverse Spin and Backyard Conservative called attention to Democrat Dick Durbin’s video to the nutroots YearlyKos convention, which used an official Senate seal. The Senate Ethics Manual explicitly forbids the use of the Senate seal for campaign use. The video had been posted on the DailyKos website since Saturday.
Anne Leary:
In his video [...]

Piecemeal shamnesty: Dems are trying to sneak the DREAM Act into a House defense bill.

I wrote last week that we’d see more outbreaks of anti-military vandalism leading up to Election Day. In upstate New York on Halloween eve, “(expletive) Bush” and a depiction of a penis were scrawled on the 20-by-40-foot flag and similar pictures in the same shade of green were painted on the American Legion Mohawk Post.
Now [...]

The anti-Alito brigade makes one last stand.
Teddy Kennedy led the charge last night with a speech to the Center for American Progress.

Download and watch this video clip (.wmv).
Transcript:
KENNEDY: In another area of controversy, his views on issues of particular concern to women should give every woman pause, from his role in striking down the key [...]

Check this out. Law professor Jonathan Turley, one of the most personable and mild-mannered people I’ve met in Washington, lays the smack down on Sen. Dick Durbin in the Washington Times this morning. Hard.

Hugh Hewitt believes Turley. Betsy Newmark wonders why the rest of the MSM isn’t paying attention:
You would think that the rest of [...]

Apology, schmapology. Sen. Dick Durbin is still blaming the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy for his ills. Illinois-based Marathon Pundit reports that Durbin is telling local press there that it’s all dastardly Bob Novak’s fault!
Does Reynolds Wrap have an endorsement deal with the Democrat Party or what?

The Chicago Tribune’s Jill Zuckman pokes at the entrails.
Hugh Hewitt analyzes The Durbin Effect:
The willingness to slander the servicemen and women responsible for the custody and interrogation of the detainees at Gitmo and around the globe did not begin with Durbin and it will not end with Pelosi.
True that. Kevin at MediaSlander has the latest [...]

Hawk-eyed blogger Tom Maguire notices two important omissions in the New York Times’ coverage of the Dick Durbin “apology.”

Was away from the computer/TV this evening, assembling this Weber grill and breaking in a new Hi-5 CD with the kids. So, I just watched the Durbin non-apology apology (video and transcript available at The Political Teen) and caught up on the news stories (here, here, and here).
Looks like the Console George folks are going [...]

Add Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to the list of those who think Senator Dick Durbin should apologize for his comments comparing Gitmo interrogators to Nazis. Associated Press reports:
Daley says Durbin — a fellow Democrat — is a good friend. But he says it’s wrong to evoke comparisons to the horrors of the Holocaust or the [...]

Ed Driscoll has a reminder of Durbin’s national security utterances in 1998.
Reader Pat T. sends word that Durbin supports the troops…as long as they’re in his district.
Cassandra at Villanous Company rips into Richard Cohen.
David Limbaugh says don’t let him off the hook.

You already know how I feel about Mark Steyn. His latest instant classic column on the Gitmo-bashers is hanging on the home office wall. A few highlights if you haven’t already read it:
Nobody complained at Auschwitz that the guards were playing the 78s of The Merry Widow (the Fuhrer’s favorite operetta) with the volume knob [...]

Just received this e-mail from Steve Gill:
Vice President Dick Cheney appeared this morning on Steve Gill Mornings in Nashville, Tennessee and was asked about Dick Durbin’s comparison of U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis. The Vice President noted that he had to
be “careful about what I say since this is a family show” but [...]

Bloggers are serving them up…
Donald Sensing on what the Nazis did (Graphic).
My Pet Jawa on what Saddam Hussein did (Graphic).
Rand Simberg on Cambodian interrogation techniques.
Varifrank weighs in with “Babykiller redux.”
Rocco diPippo has some valuable background on the radicals behind the Bash-Gitmo bandwagon.
Tom MacGuire on Chicago parallels.
The ADL’s reminder.

Daniel Henninger wonders: Is America losing the will [...]

The Chicago Tribune fawns over Durbin’s “passion.” The paper’s editorial page says “Ignore him.”
The Boston Herald editorializes: “Durbin must go.”
Investor’s Business Daily: He “made Howard Dean look sane.”
The Wash Times: “Durbin’s degrading drivel.”
The New York Times editorial page: Nothing.
The Washington Post editorial page: Nothing. (There is an E.J. Dionne column titled “Where’s the apology?” Not [...]

John in North Carolina tips us off to rampant prison abuse in Dick Durbin’s backyard. Captain Ed notes Durbin’s odd silence.
Update: Don Singleton quips…
I would urge that Gitmo be closed down and that all of the prisoners be transferred to the Cook County Jail, except I suspect it really would be against Geneva Conventions.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Camp Delta) refuses to apologize for his unhinged remarks likening American interrogators and Gitmo military staff to Nazis, Soviet gulag operators and genocidal maniac Pol Pot. (Radioblogger has the audio; Trey Jackson’s got video.)
Earlier today, as you know, White House spokesman Scott McClellan castigated Durbin.
What America needs is for President Bush himself [...]

Reuters’ photo editors can’t help themselves (via Drudge).
And neither can Rep. Dick Durbin (via Laura Ingraham). (More here and here and at LGF.)
Meanwhile, the unrepentant Charlie Rangel (Iraq war=Holocaust) is accusing the ADL of racism against blacks.
Looks like Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities is going to have to update his mile-long “Everyone will be Hitler” list.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) spoke at the dedication of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, along with President Bush and others. Sen. Durbin mentioned that the new president of Ukraine recently spoke of a government “of the people, for the people,” or, as Durbin put it, “The words of the Gettysburg address still echoing across [...]