Sun-Times LTTE re: Durbin & Nazis

[XNASA]

"Durbin made good point"

http://www.suntimes.com/output/letters/cst-edt-vox24a.html

-----Many of the politicians most ''outraged'' by Durbin's remarks have shown no similar outrage when members of their own rank-and-file used Nazi imagery when condemning their political opponents. Here are just a few examples:

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), while criticizing stem cell research last year: ''We certainly have all seen the rejections of Nazi Germany's abuses of science. As a society and a nation, there ought to be some limit on what we can allow or should allow.''

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), on the House floor Sept. 8, 2004, comparing following the law on reproductive rights to a Nazi guard saying he was following orders: ''That, Mr. Speaker, is a 'modern-day' equivalent of the Nazi prison guard saying 'I was just following orders.' It was all legal in Nazi Germany at the time.''

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), while describing the Kyoto Protocol, saying it ''would deal a powerful blow on the whole humanity similar to the one humanity experienced when Nazism and communism flourished.''

Yet there has been no criticism of these GOP politicos, no outrage or indignation on the part of the GOP for what their own do. No one within their own ranks even bristled at such inane comparisons/remarks. Instead, they try to change the subject instead of directly addressing Durbin's quite accurate point. We are engaging in the same sorts of tactics that totalitarian regimes and despots have used in the past. We are not acting like a free society. We are not different enough than them. Why aren't we?----

[AllegroRondo]

1. No apolgy from Cheney for saying "Go F* yourself"

to a Senator - on the Senate floor.

Do these guys ever apologize for anything?