So, what am I still doing in this country anyway?
Now that Congress has, after much armtwisting by the few Evil Party senators who've had first-hand experience with being tortured, passed bills that attempt to make it illegal for the United States to torture people (yes, yes, you might be asking isn't this already illegal? Apparently it isn't), the treasonous scum in the B*sh junta are attempting to carve out an exception so they can keep torturing people to death legally. And, to make it particularly cute, Dick Cheney brought in the little fuckpuppet that the B*sh junta installed to run the CIA to say that it's rilly rilly important that the CIA be allowed to torture people at will.
It's not important that CIA spies can go to work without being betrayed by their government, but it is important to allow brown-skinned people to be raped and beaten to death by bored CIA employees.
Moses, from Yowling from the Fencepost, asks did you ever think that we'd be living in a country where our leaders are debating how much torture our government gets to do?
Yes. Because they're Republicans, and that's what they do. They did it in Central America when Reagan was in power, they would have done it in Iraq when the B*sh junta was first in power (but they had to settle for a cowardly air attack on a retreating conscript army; it's not as personal as beating someone to death, but Satan isn't particular about the teeny details of how you're being Evil.) The only difference now is that they aren't even pretending that this isn't what they do.
I'll note, en passant, that the Evil Party appears to have gotten away with abandoning New Orleans, and that Maximum Leader Genius has managed to successfuly convert the "relief" effort into yet another conduit for looting the public purse. Ho, hum, yet another day in hell.