No More Mr. Nice Guy!

"It depends on what the definition of torture is..."

So much for Michael Mukasey's promise to be independent of the White House. With Cheney the Dick breathing down his neck and waving a shotgun in a threatening manner, Mukasey flips and flops, zigs and zags, and refuses to acknowledge that waterboarding is torture.

Meanwhile, George Bush Junior's scientific advisor, Samuel Bodman, declined to express an opinion on whether the world was more than 6,000 years old, and the administration's family planning czar, Susan Orr, said that more evidence is needed before ruling out the stork theory of human reproduction. Junior's nominee for the position of US envoy to the Vatican, Ian Paisley, refused to answer when asked whether his belief that the pope is the Antichrist and the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon would be an impediment to him in the position.

Isn't it time for the Senate to begin "enhanced questioning" of Junior's nominees? After all, traditional notions of due process and the rule of law are quaint and obsolete.

I continue to believe that the Dems should tell Junior he should withdraw Mukasey's name and nominate one of the purged attorneys. Poetic justice, righting a wrong and all that. Sadly, it's more likely that regardless of any noises they are currently making, the Dems will once again cave like a West Virginia coalmine and saddle us with yet another "loyal Bushie" who will continue to rubber-stamp the Boy Chimperor's continuing defecation on the Constitution.