It’s good to know there are still some Republicans out there with enough sense to oppose the autocratic madness oozing out of the White House these days.
Dick Cheney was sent to Capitol Hill today to try whipping Republicans into accepting Bush’s proposals on surveillance and military tribunals. I can’t help but wonder whether Cheney will call his fellow GOP’ers unpatriotic “appeasers of terrorists” for refusing to give Bush the blank check he’s looking for.
Bush is seeking legislation that would:
- provide immunity from prosecution to interrogators who “mistreat” (a/k/a torture) detainees;
- allow an alleged terrorist defendant to be convicted with hidden evidence to which he has no access;
- give legal status to Bush’s warrantless surveillance efforts, despite their running afoul of the Fourth Amendment.
Republican Senators like Collins, Warner, McCain, and Graham thankfully remember that this is America, not Taliban Afghanistan. You simply do not convict anyone in this country or in any advanced democracy without so much as letting him know what evidence is laid out against him. You do not give license for interrogators to torture anyone. You do not wipe your ass with the Constitution.
I may want Republicans out of power because I believe they’ve lost their ability to lead…but I respect these Senators for understanding their current role as the last bastion against a White House that seems bent on pulling this country down into fascism.
No related posts.
{ 1 comment }
I hope that Americans get out and vote these morons out of office while we still have the chance. Two more years of this administration and we might very well find ourselves in a dictatorship after a few “contrived” terror attacks result in marshall law being instated to keep this evil group in power. On the other hand just how safe is the integrity of our vote if voting machines can be manipulated?
Comments on this entry are closed.