Every John, Dick and Harry is shooting his mouth off.

You'd think they'd have noticed what happened to the Tom who used to be their leader in the Senate, but the meltdown just seems to accelerate.

Yesterday Senator Dick Durbin lost his mind and claimed that treatment of detainees at Guantanamo sounded like the treatment prisoners received in the Nazi Concentration Camps, Soviet Gulag or Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. You'd think he'd remember who these people are, before he draws analogies to jailed political dissidents or Jews, but the Democrat frenzy of desperation just doesn't seem to be going away.

Today he refused to back off, and the blogs are eating his lunch. Even Mort Kondracke thinks the Dems are losing it.

Between the obstructionism toward judicial appointees and the bizarre rhetoric from Durbin and Howard Dean, why should anybody respect these people? If they want to have a debate about this stuff, fine, but who is inclined to discuss anything with such angry and nasty people? With Democratic leadership and news media like this, the Republicans don't need to fight back.

This is 1972 all over again. Nixon didn't need the Plumbers or dirty tricks against McGovern. All he needed to do was sit by and watch the Dems continue to self-destruct, but by being so paranoid, he handed them the 1976 election on a platter. I hope the Republicans can control their own outrage and impulses this time.