Ich bin ein Vermonter

So, our "great progressive" Ohio Congressman Sherrod Brown made a calculated decision to vote for torture. Maybe the juvenile "Far Out Brown" attack site got to him and he felt the need to prove he wasn't "soft on terror". Who knows.

On the other hand, we have Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont...

Today we are belatedly addressing the single most consequential provision of this much-discussed bill, a provision that can be found buried on page 81 of the proposed bill. This provision would perpetuate the indefinite detention of hundreds of individuals against whom the government has brought no charges and presented no evidence, without any recourse to justice whatsoever. That is un-American, and it is contrary to American interests.

Read the full text of his remarks here.

P.S. Kip Hawley is an idiot.
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