Egad. Found this today on Salon.com's War Room, by :
Any doubts that may have lingered about Alberto R. Gonzales' chances of being confirmed as President Bush's next attorney general were put to rest this morning, when Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the New York Times that Democrats will not oppose the move. Critics had raised questions about the legal advice Gonzales had given the White House regarding the use of Guantánamo Bay, and his suggestions that the facility was outside the reach of U.S. courts and the rule of law. That's a finding more and more judges find plainly flawed. Gonzales was also at the center of the White House's post-9/11 legal strategy that the Geneva Conventions were "obsolete" and "quaint."
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I can't even begin to explain how appalled I am by this. As I said in a letter to the DNC this week, our Democratic leadership in Washington is completely anemic and has bought into the whole "moral values" lie. I hope this isn't what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years.