Glenn Greenwald writes about Mukasey's nomination and the sudden opposition to 'waterboarding'. He points out how deranged even having a debate about it is. He also points out that Mukasey is extreme. "After all, as a federal judge, he ruled that the President has the power to detain American citizens on U.S. soil indefinitely without ever having to charge them with a crime -- a position he more or less repeated on the first day of his confirmation hearing." Yeah that's the Padilla case.
Tristero goes on "Bush will go down in history as the torture president. I hate that this country ever had a president who made the torture of human beings official government policy." He then goes on again pointing out that one of Garry Trudeau's first cartoons (while a student at Yale) was about George Bush branding fraternity brothers at Yale. it will be in an interview in Rolling Stone.
Harry Shearer does as much as anyone could to make torture fun with Waterboardin' USA.
But it's probably all academic because Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are voting for him. They've lost my votes (not that I get to vote for them).
No wonder "A USA Today/Gallup poll finds “a nation of discontent.”" Hopefully OpenLeft is right and there are No More Red States.
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