Please stop sucking dick at the Daily KOS. You’re assessment of Newt is near word for word what Armando put out. Stop being a KOSsack, pull your head out of your..er..Armando’s ass and think for yourself.

Besides, Gingrich wasn’t the only one to call for censure. Zell Miller and a few others called for it as well.

(Of course you’re probably going to disavow Zell as some traitor because he’s against your democratic party. Either taht or make up some B.S. line about how you didn’t read that over at the Daily Kos and how it was all your words. Face facts sucker: your are a friggin’ zombie to the media from the left. I doubt you even know where FNC sits on your station guide.)

Damn, I came in here to explain censure and show approval of it in this instance and I end up beating up on trolls. It’s like cockroaches: when you squish one, two more pop up in its place. I think it’s time to start poisoning the nest (metaphorically): Eschaton, Kos, Skippy, et. al.

#1: Trent Lott
#2: Democrat Hypocrisy

As for #1 — Lott’s leadership position and good name were devastated for statements he made off of the official Senate record and clearly taken out of context. Democrat PC Police would not rest until his remarks were paid for in career blood. No one would be expected to die for his misstatement, either.

However: there is no way to take Durbin’s On-The-Record words out of context. Durbin knew exactly what he was saying and what he meant to do with it: undermine the Bush administration with impunity — even if it meant undermining War-on-Terror efforts as well. Harm may indeed come to our military overseas because of quotes from Durbin’s idiot pie hole, telecast to islamofascists worldwide via al Jazeera and al Qaeda.

Which brings us to the fact that Durbin, after his non-apology “revise and extend” comments, still holds a leadership position in the Senate’s minority party.

Which brings us to item #2 above.

Mr. Durbin is absolutly wrong in his comments about Gitmo and so is Mr. Bottoms. Mr. Dilawar did not die at Gitmo. No one had died at Gitmo. Do some some innocent people die in wartime? yes. Is the U.S.military cruel and barbaric? No. Do bad things happen in war? Yes. Do we give up when things get tough? Well, some of us don’t.

The only stains come from cry babies like Mr. Bottoms who are more interested in advancing political opposition to this President’s policies, despite the terrible consequenses of opening their big, inaccurate mouths, rather than peosecuting the war. Ever hear of “loose lips sink ships”?. Try putting things in perspective Mr. Bottoms. Maybe it would help rather than hurt the effort. Oh, shoot, I forgot, that’s not your agenda….sorry.

There are consequences to every action. Will my Marine son be in greater danger because of Durban’s big mouth? Possibly.

I see a different approach: close Gitmo. Close it to any and all access other that the Red Cresent and/or Red Cross and let them do what they need to do without the interference of people like me or Mr. Bottom trying to tell them how to do their jobs.

Well what else is new.

Durbin is absolutel correct and it’s high time this stains on military honor called Gitmo, Bhagram, and Extraordinary Rendition be reined in.

That won’t happen as long as murdering innocent men s dismissed as just hijinks.

Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen. It would be many months before Army investigators learned a final horrific detail: Most of the interrogators had believed Mr. Dilawar was an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time.

http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2005/05/nothing_to_see_.html

The problem is, what is possible? I would guess there’s a bigger chance that Osama Bin Laden will address the Senate than that body censure Dick Durbin - or any other member for that matter - for what they say on the Senate floor.

It’s not necessarily “free speech.” It’s a matter of tradition. And Senators are gluttons for tradition.

Less severe than expulsion, a censure (sometimes referred to as condemnation or denouncement) does not remove a senator from office. It is a formal statement of disapproval, however, that can have a powerful psychological effect on a member and his/her relationships in the Senate. In 1834, the Senate censured President Andrew Jackson – the first and only time the Senate censured a president. Since 1789 the Senate has censured nine of its members.”

A “formal statement of disapproval” is too strong for a Senator who has publicly equated our troops with the most murderous regimes ever to inhabit the planet? Sorry, but I disagree. It’s not a free speech issue, it’s being used as grist in the jihadist mill and will certainly be used against the US military members in harm’s way.