Humanity gone wanting in the Senate

I woke up to this.

NYT-Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees

The Senate voted Thursday to strip captured "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of the principal legal tool given to them last year by the Supreme Court when it allowed them to challenge their detentions in United States courts.

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Mr. Graham said the measure was necessary to eliminate a blizzard of legal claims from prisoners that was tying up Department of Justice resources, and slowing the ability of federal interrogators to glean information from detainees that have been plucked off the battlefields of Afghanistan and elsewhere.

"It is not fair to our troops fighting in the war on terror to be sued in every court in the land by our enemies based on every possible complaint," Mr. Graham said. "We have done nothing today but return to the basics of the law of armed conflict where we are dealing with enemy combatants, not common criminals."

Oh fer cryin' out loud. He is using the same "frivoulous lawsuit" language they have used before to gut Americans' right to sue. Honestly, I am just ill this morning. Where the hell has my country gone?

Five Dems voted for it, four Republicans against. Nine senators were MIA. I will give you five guesses as to who the Dems were that voted for this P.O.S. Okay, I won't make you guess. Can we please mount primary challenges against these Haters Of Democracy?

The five Democrats voting for the bill were Senators Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Ron Wyden of Oregon.

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