May 08, 2006

That Was in Another Country

Dr. X sends this through an anonymizer in Colomia (list of public proxy servers, rated by anonymity, is here):

"The U.S. is reported that torturing prisoners is no longer allowed. Nice to see the administration has decided to start following this portion of the constitution again. Still, it seems like the pecking order continues to be:
After much reflection, I conclude that I do not approve of the policies of this administration."

4 Comments:

Blogger JAB said...

This is why I focus like a laser on the polls - with the Administration working to develop proto-dictatorial powers, even if their desire to effectively supplant the legal system under an argument of indefinite warfare is there, the ability to make it a functioning reality is severely limited in an unpopular environment.

By the way, Bush has crossed a certain threshold there: 65 percent disapprove to 31 percent approve in the latest Gallup (a normally conservatively running poll). Over 2 to 1 against. The only explanation is his increasingly unpopularity among political conservatives.

May 8, 2006 at 9:04 PM  
Blogger Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat said...

I hope the polls stop them in their tracks, because they've already created entirely too much of a functioning reality for my taste.

But the Administration is full of such ideological and/or religious zealots that I can't believe we've heard their last shot, or that they will pass peacefully from the scene.

May 8, 2006 at 10:35 PM  
Blogger JAB said...

Quite. To save this country, we will have to play Whack-a-Mole, for decades.

May 9, 2006 at 1:19 PM  
Blogger Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat said...

I was thinking nearer term. Simply put, can we be scared into not throwing the bums out? Or into replacing them with different bums of the same stripe?

I confess that these questions are rhetorical.

May 11, 2006 at 11:46 PM  

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