The comparison isn't about Nazis, it's actually about our somewhat fluid standards.

When it was a defeated enemy in the dock at Nuremberg or Tokyo, the US position was that following orders was not sufficient to excuse conduct that a person with a normally developed moral sense would know was wrong, and quite rightly so. Yes, the two sets of behavior are not of the same degree, but both would be clearly unacceptable to anyone who had advanced past the pulling the wings off of flies stage of moral development.

We insist on a much harsher standard for foreign citizens then we are prepared to accept for ourselves. In this way, we are similar to just about every group of people that ever walked the planet, but the fact that hypocrisy is common doesn't make it smell any better.

The people who prepared the memos were aware, by their own admission, that they were authorizing interrogation methods that we regularly complained about when used by others. They knew it was wrong when they authorized the interrogation methods and no amount of sophistry will make it right.

There is existing law to punish them and it should be applied, else it will happen again.

Article I section 5 of the Constitution starts:

Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each House may provide.

I'm not so sure that they'd feel they have jurisdiction once the state certifies the election and I'm really sure that they wouldn't risk being told that they were irrelevant by the Senate.

the post-9/11 rumors of irony's demise were greatly exaggerated.

I have found that you can get tickets to Red Sox games far cheaper in Seattle than you cnan back home. And it seems like more than half the fans are wearing hats with a big, red "B".

I will have to admit, the schedule is a bit more restricted ...

Just another example of the Party of "No" definition of bipartisanship - "do it our way".

I hope the Dems are taking notes for the next time they're the minority party.

" ... Reid said, "I think it would [sic] very unwise from my perspective to start having commissions, boards, tribunals until we find out what the facts are.”

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I though the point of a commissions, boards, and tribunals was twofold: 1) determine the facts, and 2) bury them. Once we know what the facts are can't Reid just move on to step 2?

It's become obvious that the political class has decided to protect its own, so prosecution just ain't gonna happen - no matter how disgusting the stink of hypocrisy or how severe the damage to our reputation.

" ... it will give them a theoretically filibuster-proof majority."

*Very* theoretically.

But really, it was the only thing for him to do. While Specter is too far to the right for my tastes, the GOP has fallen off the edge.

For all the whining about "one-party rule", that would require Reid to enforce strict party disciple. Can anyone really see that happening? Besides, given the Republican's recent morphing into the "Party of No" and refusing to support legislation even after concessions were made, we seem to have had that anyway. Only now, it will be the party that won the most seats.

From listening to the guys that you appear to hang out with, the Fairness Doctrine is Obama's Nazi-inspired Commie/Socialistic attempt to overturn the 1st Amendment and stifle the brave talk-show radio hosts that are merely attempting to get the truth out to the oppressed masses, like a domestic version of Radio Free Europe. Something that he's doing before he sets up the re-education camps for American youth.

Two things I'd like to know:

1) Is that really what you want to do?

2) Who leaked the plans to you? They weren't supposed to be announced until the next Party Congress.

I wish I could answer them all, but there is only so much bandwidth available, you know?

Then why do you waste it with this drivel?

Pal, the GOP will not win back the moderates until they start moderating their policies. As Christine Todd Whitman said last week in the NY Times:

In the coming election cycle, we have the opportunity to remind the nation that our party is committed to such important values as fiscal restraint, less government interference in our everyday lives, environmental policies that promote a balanced approach between protection and economic interest, and a foreign policy that is engaged with the rest of the world.

Unfortunately for the GOP, that statement runs entirely counter to the their record. They may have been like that once, but not in the last 30 years. The Southern strategy was a typical corporate strategy; ignore the long term damage to rack up short term electoral gains. Well the bill's come due. That's matter of history, not distortion by a liberal media.

The Republicans will be generations repairing the damage of the Reagan/Bush years. Unfortunately, so will the rest of us.

How can you expect to keep a horde of zombies at bay without flame-throwers? Do I have to teach you greenhorns everything?

Turn my back for a minute and you'd all have your brains snarfled up through soda straws. Sheesh!

Oh, and limited-yield nuclear devices are good too. I always keep a couple around the house just in case "company" comes calling. You can't be too well-supplied in this day and age.