"we lost the torture debate completely"

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40. Welcome to DU, Shamash!

Glad you're here! And thanks for the reply, too. Your point is a good one. Some of "ours" are just as complicit. I am HOPING, HARD, that Hillary Clinton remembers WHY it isn't she who's serving the last half of her second term in the White House - because she caved to bush/cheney and swallowed the shit they were force-feeding everyone. I'm HOPING that she pays attention, and doesn't feel like she needs to just go along and rubber-stamp shitty ideas and shitty proposals and shitty bills - especially if she wins, and then faces the kind of opposition we've come to expect from the REAL "Sore Losermen." DAYUM! The GOP is the collective poster child for poor sportsmanship and sore losers!

As a mother, I thought when your kid acted out or threw a tantrum in the middle of the cereal aisle because they didn't get their five boxes of sugar cereal, or when they snatched a toy away from a smaller kid - I thought the wise response was always to check that behavior and CERTAINLY not give in to it. CERTAINLY you do not reinforce that behavior and teach that kid that this is what you can do to get your way, becuase it's always about getting your way. I HATE the very idea that mitch mcconnell not only survived in November but gets the reward he's always wanted - Senate Majority Leader. ICK!!! So his bad behavior and poor sportsmanship has been rewarded. Reinforced. This is just SHITTY!!!

I HATE to see bad behavior rewarded. It's not supposed to work that way.