Do away with the legislative branch

all they've proven themselves good for is enabling george bush and his cabal to gut the u.s. constitution, create a quasi-totalitarian state, and heap shame on what used to be a country that had some self-respect...

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.

Senators also began debating the measure yesterday and defeated, along party lines, a Democratic-sponsored amendment that would have expanded detainees' legal rights. Senators predicted that their chamber will approve the legislation today, which would enable Bush to hold a signing ceremony on a high-profile and intensely debated bill about a month before the Nov. 7 elections.

i realize that this article is spun on behalf of bushco, but i can't help believe that, yes, the bill will also be passed by the senate, and will then be trumpeted to full advantage in the final run-up to the elections... meanwhile, an unrelieved blackness is gathering over my country...

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