Nasty Little Man

This will be a day long remembered

The day the democracy died. The Senate is poised to pass a bill to rubber-stamp the use of torture and the destruction of the courts in our military actions. Under this bill, rape is not torture. It allows the president to define what actions can be taken under the Geneva Convention without ever releasing what actions are on his list. The bill would not only allow the U.S. to pick up citizens of other countries in their countries as "illegal enemy combatants" but would also allow the president to pick up U.S. citizens and slap them with the same designation.

Here's what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans' fear of losing their majority to push through ghastly ideas about antiterrorism that will make American troops less safe and do lasting damage to our 217-year-old nation of laws - while actually doing nothing to protect the nation from terrorists. Democrats betray their principles to avoid last-minute attack ads. Our democracy is the big loser.

I'm calling Santorum today to ask, "Who would Jesus torture?" This is one of those days when I wish there was a hell because then I could take great pleasure knowing that Bush, Cheney, Santorum, Frist, etc. would burn there.

It's hard to believe that America has reached a day where we need a military coup to restore decency and common sense.

posted by Kinder Gentler Little Man @ 7:24 AM