Democrats with no voice

Not to disagree with the view of the Democrats with no backbone post, but there are of course other issues here.

Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake reports on Sen. Durbin's reaction, on CSpan, to the recent news of Bush/Cheney's role in the Plamegate affair:

Dick Durbin was just on CSPAN deeply upset by this latest revelation and no wonder. It was Durbin who wrestled with his conscience, who couldn’t tell the public during the run-up to war what he well knew because it was classified: that there was serious dissent within the intelligence community about whether or not WMDs actually existed. [snip]

. . . So Dick Durbin had to bite his tongue and watch the country go to war on what he knew to be a steaming pile bullshit because the NIE was classified and he couldn’t speak about the INR dissent. The public remained blissfully ignorant and thousands died.

But Cheney told Scooter he could fling it around like a dirty napkin while he and Judy were buttering each other’s toast at the St. Regis for no other purpose than perpetuating a public, ass-covering hoax.

Such is the regard that Dick, Scooter and the rest of the future perps treat national secrets and their own security clearances. . . .

National security is not supposed to be a joke. The Regime's political manipulation of this affair is, well, criminal. I wonder if the senior Senator from Illinois still thinks that talk of censure or impeachment is "premature".