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Michael Bérubé uses this latest example of governmental intrusion to reiterate that conservatism ain’t what it used to be:
bq. People who support a clandestine program of warrantless domestic spying are not “conservatives� or “libertarians.� Neither are people who support the creation of a worldwide archipelago of secret torture sites. Neither are people who support the usurpation [...]
Ed Cone quotes Ann Coulter saying:
bq. It’s far preferable to fight them in the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender). [ "Ed Cone":http://radio.weblogs.com/0107946/2005/08/23.html#a4836 ]
Of course. We all know that New Yorkers are liberal, and liberal = coward, right? Or possibly French. So much for the bravery of [...]
At Ishbadiddle, M E-L has an interesting post focusing on “the efficacy of torture as an interrogation device”:http://triptronix.net/ishbadiddle/archives/2005/06/22/16.01.19/. He’s right except for one thing: People who support torture at Gitmo don’t support it because they think torture is effective. Anti-terrorism intellegence is just the _justification_. No one who is in charge of it, and certainly [...]
So let’s recap the big complaints of the right wingers right now: Howard Dean says mean things about Republicans. And Amnesty International refered to Gitmo as a “gulag.” On the left? “We worry the Republicans are destroying everything it means to be American:”:http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/06/more_things_we_.html
bq. The thought that I could not say, with complete confidence, that my [...]
So the Senate has reached a compromise on Bill Frist’s “Nuclear” option which clears the way for three of Bush’s blocked nominees and preserves the filibuster for use against a potential Supreme Court nominee. I haven’t looked at _anyone else’s blogs_ yet about this issue, and while I’m relieved that debate in the Senate is [...]