Profiles In Cowardice

This story so symbolizes the moral and political state of the contemporary Democrat party:

A Senate resolution condemning the president of Iran for anti-Semitic comments he made earlier this month is riling its Republican sponsors on Capitol Hill. They claim Senate Democrats forced them to strip language from the document expressing support for self-determination and a national referendum in the country.

Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, drafted the resolution after a December 14 speech in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a "myth" and suggested Israel be relocated to Europe, Canada, or Alaska. In its original form, the statement condemned the remarks, demanded an apology, and supported efforts by "the people of Iran to exercise self-determination" and hold a national referendum with oversight by international observers.

When Mr. Santorum moved to introduce the resolution last Friday, Senator Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, registered an unusual objection. According to the Congressional Record, Mr. Wyden told Mr. Santorum on the Senate floor that he was objecting to the resolution because his Democratic colleagues in the Senate had asked him too. Mr. Wyden did not say who asked him to issue the objection.

"While I personally am vehemently opposed to the statements that have been made by the president of Iran," Mr. Wyden said, "I have been asked by the members on this side of the aisle to object, and I do so object."

So let's get this straight: "Senate Democrats" object to Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's hateful, warmongering apocalypticism that could, and evidently will, plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon, but they "vehemently oppose" even the public suggestion that any move be made to avert this disaster in the making by just encouraging the overthrow of the mullahgarchy by the Iranian people. And Ron Wyden - who vehemently opposes Ahmedinejad - nevertheless had no difficulty serving as the designated mouthpiece for his haplessly dhimmized colleagues whose pro-Islamist convictions were so heartfelt that they wouldn't even stand up and be publicly identified with them.

My only real question is why Santorum removed the two sentences backing regime change and freedom in Iran. Haven't Senate Pachyderms yet had enough of this pointless, cowardly, obstructionist crap? Screw "Senate Democrats," and screw Ron Wyden for being their spokesman; keep the blasted resolution as is and make the Democrats defend keeping a madman like Ahmedinejad in power and therefore in the position to set off the nuclear fuse. Maybe even flush out the despicable turban-licker(s) for public villification.

If Senate Republicans won't even stand their ground on a frakking resolution, they might as well pack it in, hand the keys to the kingdom over to Dirty Harry, and go home to dig their fallout shelters.

[HT: CQ]