In The End, It Wasn’t Even Close
The House approved an administration-backed system of questioning and prosecuting terrorism suspects yesterday, setting clearer limits on CIA interrogation techniques but denying access to courts for detainees seeking to challenge their imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere.
The 253 to 168 vote was a victory for President Bush and fellow Republicans. Bush had yielded some ground during weeks of negotiations, but he fully embraced the language that the House approved with support from 34 Democrats and all but seven Republicans.
It’s a victory for the Repubican political strategy of hitting the Democrats hard on security, as well, because if there weren’t an election in about six weeks, 34 Democrats would not have defected…
Thank god for the netroots…
They are getting their fires ready to burn the witches out of their little villiage-or more precisely, they will provide me with the list of defectors. 34 democratic incumbents defecting, in simple math, means 34 vulnerable seats.
Harold Ford.
Must be taking his senate campaign seriously.