Why is it that I think that Congress voting to authorize torture is a bigger scandal than Republican leadership covering up a Congressman molesting his aides?

Foley is a sick bastard preying on children entrusted to his care. What he did was wrong and illegal. But the torture “compromise” creates a new legal norm. Tortured the wrong guy? Whoops, too bad. The victim gets dropped off in a field somewhere and the torturer goes home to watch TV. Tortured the right guy? Whoops, there goes any protection for captured Americans. Whoops, there goes what’s left of America’s claim to moral uprightness. Oh well, easy come, easy go, I guess.

After 5.5 of years of unimaginable confinement and torture, John McCain can’t lift his arms higher than his shoulders. How does he justify to himself giving an inch on an anti-torture bill? Whatever claim McCain had to placing morality higher than political expediency, he just lost it. In that regard, he’s actually making Hillary look good, which takes some doing.* [Tags: foley politics torture john_mccain hillary_clinton]

*She voted for a war out of political expediency. That’s a bad thing to do. IMO.

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