On so many levels. The US Senate can censure Trent Lott for birthday comments, but can't censure Little Dickie Durban for selling out our country for purely disgusting partisan reasons.
That is a very good point...we have lost all sense of proportion in this country. When high school graduates cannot name the president and the vice president, then how can we expect people to object to the comparison between our overactive refrigeration of the detainees, and the terror that took place under the NAZI and Soviet regimes? A large group (possibly the majority?) of young people will see no problem with this comparison because they have no knowledge of history. Woe to this country that relies on the ignorant to elect the irascible.