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We Can Haz New Leaders Plz?
The entire Republican party, both in Congress and the Executive Branch, continues to endorse, support, and order torture. Every time anything has come up about torture, the Republican party has been unanimous in support, all of the opposition has come from the Democratic party. All of the Republican presidential candidates are enthusiastic in their support for torture and more war, except for Ron Paul. Torture isn't some fringe thing, it's endorsed and condoned by the entire national Republican party.
But that's been evident for years, and because of that, I'm no longer surprised or outraged by it, but I should be. But because of their constant support for torture, I don't expect anything better from the Republicans. I do hope for better from the Democrats, which is why I get so mad when I see things like this:
The nomination fight over attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey effectively came to an end yesterday, as two key Senate Democrats parted from their colleagues and announced their support for the former judge despite his controversial statements on torture.
The orchestrated announcements by Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) virtually guarantee that Mukasey will be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, to be followed by his likely confirmation in the full Senate later in the month.
Great job leading there, Sen. Feinstein. Cave of Bush's newest hack to appoint to the Justice Department. Sure, so he won't disavow torture, because then he'd have to prosecute Bush and Cheney and the rest of the administration for war crimes, but hey, let's approve him anyway! Who needs little things like the Rule of Law, or calling the administration to account for its crimes or anything like that.
Fucking Democrats. Ohnoes! The Republicans might attack you as "soft on terror" or other bullshit if you don't approve breaking our laws and torturing people! Oh, wait they're going to do it anyway, because the Republican party has gone screaming off the edge of madness. So instead of fighting for something so basic as "We're the United States of America. We don't torture people," you cave so you don't look "weak" even though you'll get attacked THE SAME EXACT WAY, and you'll... look weak, because you caved.
GREAT GAME PLAN, GUYS!
But that's been evident for years, and because of that, I'm no longer surprised or outraged by it, but I should be. But because of their constant support for torture, I don't expect anything better from the Republicans. I do hope for better from the Democrats, which is why I get so mad when I see things like this:
The nomination fight over attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey effectively came to an end yesterday, as two key Senate Democrats parted from their colleagues and announced their support for the former judge despite his controversial statements on torture.
The orchestrated announcements by Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) virtually guarantee that Mukasey will be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, to be followed by his likely confirmation in the full Senate later in the month.
Great job leading there, Sen. Feinstein. Cave of Bush's newest hack to appoint to the Justice Department. Sure, so he won't disavow torture, because then he'd have to prosecute Bush and Cheney and the rest of the administration for war crimes, but hey, let's approve him anyway! Who needs little things like the Rule of Law, or calling the administration to account for its crimes or anything like that.
Fucking Democrats. Ohnoes! The Republicans might attack you as "soft on terror" or other bullshit if you don't approve breaking our laws and torturing people! Oh, wait they're going to do it anyway, because the Republican party has gone screaming off the edge of madness. So instead of fighting for something so basic as "We're the United States of America. We don't torture people," you cave so you don't look "weak" even though you'll get attacked THE SAME EXACT WAY, and you'll... look weak, because you caved.
GREAT GAME PLAN, GUYS!