Naming the Names

[rolanni]

The names of the senators who voted in favor of torture, and to make the president of the united states (small caps intended) the sole and final arbiter of your -- yes, YOUR -- fate. If the president takes a madcap whim, YOU may now be taken away, secretly imprisoned for as long as the president feels like keeping you, denied a lawyer and a trial, tortured.

So be careful what you say in your blogs, 'k?

Susan Collins is on this list. Olympia Snowe abstained. I am ashamed.

Edited to correct list. Source here

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

Comments

[od-mind.livejournal.com]

Frankly, the pre-toning-down version was no worse, just more honest. It said "you can be disappeared on a whim"; the current version says "you cannot be disappeared on a whim, unless the president decides it would be a good idea".

Has anyone else noticed that the content and rationale for this bill is essentially a point-by-point repudiation of the Declaration of Independence? Time to dig up the remains of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin and try them for deviationism.