Did you hear or see what they did today?

So, yeah, our House and Senate both made me want to cry a little today. If you believe the Republicans, they just made us safer from terrorists. To me, they both gave a thumbs up to torture, illegal wiretapping, detaining someone indefinitely without trial, and retroactively making illegal acts legal and unprosecutable.

We are definitely sliding down the slippery slope to fascism.

It's a long slide down the slippery slope, in my opinion, because our nation has spent years building a reputation and a legacy of promoting freedom and human rights. But what have we done lately? It used to be the bad things we did were sort of under the covers or behind the scenes, and the world, by and large, was willing to look the other way on things like our policies in Latin America, supporting brutal dictatorships in the name of our coporate interests, and so on. We have been sliding for a while. Remember when the Tsunami hit? And Bush said we would contribute $15 million? When I heard this, it reminded me of Dr. Evil returning from space and demanding "one millllllllllion dollars" ransom. Then I thought, maybe that's how much he personally was going to give.

Then there is the Iraq War. And a Canadian we shipped off to Syria where he was tortured. And Katrina. And Abramoff. And Enron. And the Bankruptcy Bill. And outing Valerie Plame. And when illegal activity is leaked to the media, the administration condemns the leak and not the crime. And these are just the first six or eight things that come to mind when I spend 10 seconds thinking about it.



Here's what Molly has to say about the "Torture Bill"...(click)


We are picking up speed.