With fingers in their ears

Kos asks,

Really, what is the Right trying to accomplish here? Inflict so much pain on Durbin that others will think twice before they levy legitimate criticisms of the war? Are they so hell-bent on their political correctness that any criticisms of the war effort is considered treasonous?

Um, Kos, to put it simply, yes they do and yes they are.

What an age we live in, when people who oppose such anti-American values as torture, and who support free speech, must rally behind a senator for reading aloud from an FBI report on conditions in a Prisoner of Global War on Terror (POGWOT) facility maintained in our name. Durbin's floor speech is here (pdf)

Christ. Almighty.

And the moronic thugs, like Scottie McClellan, are able to get away with these verbal versions of a sap to the back of the head because, as Maine's Susan Collins was quoted recently, when it comes to the torture inflicted in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanmo Bay, her constituents, when faced with the choice of getting the facts "clearly" or "blurry," "they want it blurry."

I don't even know this country, anymore.