Editorials Hit Congress on New 'Terror' Bill

[tuvor]

(Sorry for the wacky punctuation. My Firefox doesn't play well with some sites.)

NEW YORK The editorial pages of four top newspapers have hit, unusually hard, congressional approval of new detention and interrogation guidelines this week.

The New York Times offered perhaps the single strongest passage of all, charging today that this �tyrannical law� will come to �be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation�s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.�

The paper hit both parties: �Here�s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans� fear of losing their majority to push through ghastly ideas about antiterrorism that will make American troops less safe and do lasting damage to our 217-year-old nation of laws -- while actually doing nothing to protect the nation from terrorists. Democrats betray their principles to avoid last-minute attack ads. Our democracy is the big loser.�

The Washington Post, not always aligned with the Times on such matters, sounded similar notes, complaining that �rather than carefully weigh the issues, Congress has allowed itself to be stampeded into a vote on hastily written but far-reaching legal provisions, in a preelection climate in which dissenters risk being labeled as soft on terrorism�.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ep/editorialshitcongressonnewterrorbill

[Jade Fox]

1. Not surprising......

The sheer, unadulterated stupidity of the current GOP and many Democrats is stunning. If they are trying to insure re-election, they may have just shot themselves in the foot.

I'm hoping that the legacy of the current GOP is they will all but destroy their party's credibility, and we will see a new American Revolution come out of this disaster.

Hey, I need some optimism.