Politics Meanwhile In The Other Washington…
It’s no post about a homocidal homophobe, so it won’t generate the heat our recent basher-bashing has. But in Washington D.C. the Republican-dominated U.S. Senate is preparing to shred the U.S. Constitution.
From the Washington Post (via Kos):
The legislation before the Senate today would ban torture, but let Bush define it; would allow the president to imprison indefinitely anyone he decides falls under a wide-ranging new definition of unlawful combatant; would suspend the Great Writ of habeas corpus; would immunize retroactively those who may have engaged in torture. And that’s just for starters…Today’s vote will show more clearly than ever before that, when push comes to shove, the Republicans who control Congress are in lock step behind the president, and the Democrats—who could block him, if they chose to do so—are too afraid to put up a real fight.
Read about it and weep here, here, and here.
Then kneel at the casket and have a laugh…
What I don't understand is this: Are the Democrats just hoping to run out the clock, while not looking "soft on terror" (because the session ends tomorrow, right)? and if this thing passes, can it be undone if the Dems take back eithor or both houses of Congress?