Disturbin' Durbin

Hugh Hewitt is all over Dick Durbin's comparison of Gitmo to the Gulag, the Holocaust and Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia. Then he uses Josh Marshall's words about Trent Lott and wonders if they will be as prophetic as to Durbin.

I don't think Durbin is in any trouble. The Democrats, unlike Republicans, are not very bipartisan, bilateral or inclined toward concessions. The Republicans seem to get bogged down in the rhetoric of cooperation and compromise, because, well, more of them believe it. The trouble is that many Democrats see stuff like control of the Supreme Court, abortion, gay rights, etc. as matters of political life and death and that's all that matters.