Thursday, September 21, 2006

Reduced to Gimmickry

You may have heard that the House Judiciary Committee voted against sending the President's Freedom-to-Torture Act to the floor yesterday. Through use of a parliamentary gimmick, however, the committee took another vote and managed to squeak out a 20-19 "victory" for the administration.

Small consolation: there has never been any doubt about the House's determination to rubber-stamp whatever Bush wants in what he calls the war against terrorism, and the fact that Republicans are voting against him at all shows how badly support for administration policy--even on the national-security issue that's been Republicans' bread and butter--is slipping.

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