Somehow, this seems connected

[redbird]

I went looking to see which Senators and Representatives had had the decency (or courage?) to vote against torture and arbitrary imprisonment yesterday. I wound up at a Washington post page sorted by party, which told me that Lincoln Chaffee is the only honorable Republican in the U.S. Senate. The others, including McCain, voted in favor.

Then I saw that I can also get the totals sorted by state, region, "boomer status," gender, next election year, or astrological sign.

And I wonder that I expect sanity from a country in which people who actually pay attention to politics are expected to think that's a useful or interesting sort. But I'm not just wanting, and mourning the lack of, sanity: I want ordinary human decency.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The question to Senator Joe McCarthy, at the Army-McCarthy hearings so long ago, was "Have you, finally, no decency?"

Too many members of Congress would have to reply "Yes."

Some Senators and Representatives have stated that they expect the Supreme Court to declare this bill unconstitutional.

1) What, they couldn't figure it out themselves?

2) Have they been paying attention to the composition of the Supreme Court? The Senate approved two people of "conservative" bent within recent memory. Perhaps they are expecting the ghosts of previous justices to rise up. Which may work well in fantasy, but that isn't how to bet.

As for the vote total sorted by astrological sign: I don't normally spit.

--
D.