Grr

September 21st, 2006 Leave a comment Go to comments

What digby says

The Republicans are now standing shoulder to shoulder having worked this whole thing out — they are strong, they are tough, they are moral, and they are willing to work together to form a compromise that they can all live with. Aren’t they great? This is why we should vote Republican.

Now watch this drive.

Ed Rogers on Hardball said Bush got to look both tough on terror and effective in bringing the senate along. Kweisi Mfume says McCain looks good to Democrats and independents and Bush looks good to Americans in general.

Can anyone in the know explain to me how letting McCain run with this torture debate benefitted the Democrats in any way?

Here’s how the optics look to me:

McCain, the Republican rebel maverick, showed that Republicans are moral and look out for their troops.

Bush, the Republican statesman and leader, showed that he is committed to protecting Americans but that he is willing to listen and compromise when people of good faith express reservations about tactics.

The Democrats showed they are ciphers who don’t have the stones to even say a word when the most important moral issue confronting the government is being debated.

Fuck the amoral shitbucket GOoPers who are now legalizing torture and fuck the milquetoast ineffective Democrats. By their inaction, the Democrats have neither the moral high ground nor an effective opposition on this, the easiest of issues to support. If there were anyone, anyone to the left of the GOP that would actually fight them, they would get my vote – and my money – before a single Dem.

The result of all this? Torture is A-OK, John “batshit crazy warmongering liar” McCain gets more good press, and the weak as Nicole Ritchie trying to lift a 5 lb. weight-GOP look powerful. Oh, and the Dems are nowhere.

Oh, and our nation’s moral standing is even further diminished, our civil liberties eroded, our enemies strengthened, and the way has been paved to allow the authoritarian war criminals in the Bush administration off the hook.

Nice job, assholes.

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  1. chartoo
    September 22nd, 2006 at 16:48 | #1
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    Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who joined McCain in taking on the White House on this issue, said the agreement will “take off the table things that are not within American values,” specifically mentioning the controversial simulated drowning technique known as “water-boarding” as a practice that “we need to let the world know we are no longer engaging in.” The senators also won agreement on their insistence that terror suspects be allowed to see any evidence the jury sees, though highly sensitive details that might be used to plan later attacks would be stripped out. It also would ban hearsay evidence the defense successfully argues is not reliable and would disallow evidence obtained by techniques that violate the Detainee Treatment Act.

    The senators agreed to a White House proposal to make the standard on interrogation treatment retroactive to 1997, so CIA and military personnel could not be prosecuted for past treatment under standards the administration considers vague, the Times reported.

    This what was really at stake in their sham negotiations on torture, a free pass for passed deeds.

    The White House knows no shame!

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