Letter to Senator Frist

Dear Senator Frist,

I want to commend your recent actions as the protector of decency in this great country of ours. Your political correctness is refreshing. Senator Durbin has been sufficiently humiliated as a result of your actions, but as the champion of decorum I wanted to help focus your attention on another offender that is equally egregious. Hopefully your influence can correct this problem too.

I'm sure that I don't have to tell you the definition of hypocrisy, but in March earlier this year Senator Santorum was faced with a similar battle as yourself when he denounced Senator Byrd's remarks comparing our government to Nazi Germany. He said,

"Senator Byrd's inappropriate remarks comparing his Republican colleagues with Nazis are inexcusable. These comments lessen the credibility of the Senator and the decorum of the Senate. He should retract his statement and ask for pardon."

At the time I agreed with Senator Santorum that Senator Byrd was out of order, but only two months later when discussing the Democrat's criticism of the "nuclear option" he himself took the analogy even further with this statement:

"It's the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying: I'm in Paris, how dare you invade me, how dare you bomb my city? It's mine."

Multicultural awareness and sensitivity are obviously your number one priority and without these, our Senate would devolve into a bickering contest focusing on inane distractions and no work would get done whatsoever. In the name of productivity, I think it is your duty to bring this issue to the floor and force Senator Santorum to atone for his indiscretions. If we can pull him back onto the righteous path, he will become a credible defender of moral indignation in our government.