If the bastards had done their job, we wouldn't NEED "reform"

getting really pissed off first thing on a sunday morning isn't a good thing...

Reform on Detentions

Democrats will now have the chance to curtail the Bush administration's human rights abuses.

EARLIER THIS fall congressional Democrats made only a token effort to stop passage of deeply flawed Bush administration legislation on the detention, interrogation and trial of "enemy combatants" in the war on terrorism. First they hid behind a group of Republican moderates who tried to modify the law's worst aspects; when that resulted in a bad compromise, they gave up serious opposition rather than risk being accused of being weak on terrorism in the run-up to an election. Having won that election, the Democrats now have a second chance to temper the administration's excesses and to insist on accountability for past crimes. It ought to be at the top of their agenda.

yeah, ok, they get a second chance... and if they had not won the elections and regained both houses of congress...? and what if their efforts at "reforming" possibly the most disgraceful act of congress in the history of the united states fail...? every single member of congress, republican or democrat, who voted for the military commissions act is complicit in undermining the united states constitution, and, worse than that, party to any and every violation of human rights and act of torture committed under its umbrella... the horse got out of the barn, and now these craven s.o.b.'s want to coax it back in... yeah, it's better than letting the act stand, but i am disgusted nevertheless...

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