Haven’t posted for a while…work’s been crazy, so I haven’t had the time to post entertianing bits…and the political stuff that normally gets me fired up, frankly, has been depressing me too much to bother commenting on it.

Case in point is this parenthetical from a recent Gleen Greenwald article:

[The most amazing quote was from chief Mukasey supporter Chuck Schumer, who, before voting for him, said that Mukasey is “wrong on torture — dead wrong.” Marvel at that phrase: “wrong on torture.” Six years ago, there wasn’t even any such thing as being “wrong on torture,” because “torture” wasn’t something we debated. It would have been incoherent to have heard: “Well, he’s dead wrong on torture, but . . . ”

Now, “torture” is not only something we openly debate, but it’s something we do. And the fact that someone is on the wrong side of the “torture debate” doesn’t prevent them from becoming the Attorney General of the United States. It’s just one issue, like any other issue — the capital gains tax, employer mandates for health care, the water bill — and just because someone is “dead wrong” on one little issue (torture) hardly disqualifies them from High Beltway Office.]

The post in general is about how our latest Attorney General was swiftly confirmed in the Senate, and how, somehow, the “60 vote requirement” to get anything done in Congress is only when the Democrats roll over and let the freakin’ Republicans get their way god so sleepy need to lay down a minute

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