"Patently unconstitutional"

That's what Arlen Specter called the new detainee rules approved by the Senate yesterday. He voted for the bill.

Here's the Democrats who voted for it:

Carper, Del
Johnson, S.D.
Landrieu, La
Lautenberg, NJ (what was he thinking?)
Lieberman, Ct (surprise, surprise)
Menendez, NJ (another Blue State Democrat afraid to turn the lights off at night)
Nelson, Fla
Nelson, Neb
Pryor, Ark
Rockefeller, W. Va (what a disappointment)
Salazar, Col
Stabenow, Mich

A sad day for our country, our reputation, our history.

Bin Laden's and the other Salafist extremists' goal, in addition to taking the entire Muslim world back 900 years to a glorified time of Islamic power, is to force us to violently react to their attacks and threats, and hence dismantle the freedoms and democratic values we have held dear since the founding of the Republic.

With yesterday's vote, one could argue that we have lost another battle in the "War on Terrorism," if not the war itself.

All of this for Republicans to try to gain an edge in the midterm elections.

They are, as Thaddeus Stevens once said of a colleague, slinking in their own slime.