A few weeks ago, I asked the rhetorical question--since 911, are Democrats still calling some members of the opposite party "Taliban Republicans," as Julian Bond did at the NAACP convention last summer?

Question answered. Apparently, according to US News and World Report:

Democratic lawmakers have adopted the language of the antiterror war to mock Republican conservatives, especially Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, House Majority Leader Dick Armey and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay.

Says a prominent Democrat: "They're the Republican Taliban."

I wonder how that prominent Democrat would feel if he (or she) and colleagues were called "the Stalinist wing of the Democratic party"? It would be equally odious, and equally accurate.