Dastardly Dick and the Dudgeon of Doom

The American Spectator's George Neumayr manages to nail the Terri Schiavo autopsy and Dick Durbin's hate speech directed toward American servicemen in one short passage:

If Terri Schiavo had been dehydrated to death at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Dick Durbin would be reading her autopsy report from the Senate floor. It would be an occasion for great moral anguish. How did the U.S. sink so low as to adopt such Nazi-like callousness toward disabled prisoners of war? one could imagine him saying. Instead, Democrats -- even as they spent part of the week crassly celebrating, with news of Schiavo's autopsy report in hand, the human rights abuse of euthanasia against the disabled -- are in a moral lather over the paucity of proper air conditioning terrorists receive at Guantanamo Bay.

Durbin concluded his terrorists-aren't-getting-enough-AC speech on the Senate floor this week by saying: "If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others -- that had no concern for human beings."

This pointed up another liberal blind spot: How come Fidel Castro didn't make Durbin's cut of evildoers? Somehow Castro's gulag in our time, right next to Guantanamo Bay, didn't pop into Durbin's head. Why? Because Castro has been doing so well lately, turning up the air conditioning to a reasonable level for those noisome critics of his languishing in Havana jails?