Good Guys and Bad Guys

Lorelei Kelley highlights the best statements of Democrats who've taken the right stand in the House of Representatives' obscene torture debate. Notwithstanding their efforts, the administration's pro-torture position prevailed by a depressingly-not-small margin of 253-168. Those Democrats running so scared of GOP attack ads that they're willing to toss the constitution, basic morality, and common sense about effective interrogations overboard in a futile effort to convince the Republicans not to call them soft on terrorism sure do look "tough," don't they?

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One of the bad guys is surely Trent Lott, who I heard on the radio this morning dismiss being threatened by dogs as a minor inconvenience that anyone who has delievered laundry has experienced. Here's a new rule (apologies to Bill Maher): any white man from Mississippi with a segregationist past should not under any circumstances make light of being threatened by dogs.

Posted by Bob | September 28, 2006 11:18 AM

In a post above on Tony Blair, you say that there are only so many plays in the political playbook. Well, you can keep running the same plays unless and until the defense adjusts to stop them. That's what the Republicans are doing, and the Dems aren't adjusting.

Posted by Robert Earle | September 28, 2006 11:20 AM