A Republican Senator would have been wiped out politically for saying the same dumbass "he made the trains run on time" thing Murray said, and you know it. I'm sick to death of Democrats being able to say any jackass thing they want and skate off on it. Never mind that she was totally wrong in the first place about the wonderful things bin Laden supposedly did.

It's the double standard that's making me nuts, not whatever point Murray might have been trying to hamfistedly make. The double standard. You tell me what would have happened to any Republican Senator who used the phrase "white nigger" in public like Byrd did. Nothing happened to Byrd. NOTHING. Why the hell can't you address the point I'm actually making here? I couldn't give less of a shit about what Murray actually meant. Nobody cared what Lott actually meant either, but just ran with whatever assumptions served their political purposes.

The Democratic Party and the press that serves it has no consistent principles or rules except one: gaining and keeping power.