Like Leaden Water-Wings for Weak Swimmers

...that's the impact Dastardly Dick Durbin is having on Democrats' political prospects:

ON MONDAY, it was argued here that Senator Richard Durbin ought to be censured for his remarks last week, and not just those in which he made the outrageous comparison between interrogation tactics at Guantanamo and the practices of the Nazi, Soviet, and Khmer Rouge regime. On Tuesday, Durbin took to the Senate floor again, and tried to sound like he was apologizing, though of course he did nothing of the sort, as even a casual consideration of his words will demonstrate. Though the high priest of the media, John McCain, pronounced absolution on the teary Durbin, the reaction among servicemen and women, their families and supporters was not of the forgiving kind. Students of Lincoln also recognized just how carefully Durbin had shopped for his Lincoln quote.

If dumb Dems want to follow Durbin over the cliff, so be it.

It's high time the party serial murderer Andrew Jackson put on the political map was wiped off it in any case.