It’s about time
Look, I know there’s no guarantee of them going anywhere–indeed almost the opposite while W has veto power–but seeing legislation in both the House and Senate to close Guantanamo still makes me happy.
It’s about time someone stood up and said of Gitmo that it is “plainly inconsistent with America’s proud legal traditions; it has become a stinging symbol of our tarnished standing abroad” .
What would make me even happier would be if someone would stand up and say that “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” means all men and not just “all American citizens not specifically excluded by the President”.
George
Kira
May 14th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
There are days when I am slightly less ashamed to be an American.
May 15th, 2007 at 7:51 am
In my optimistic moments, I think the pendulum is really starting to swing back.
June 11th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
I wish. It’s going to be at least another 25 years. All those creationist freaks have to finish raising their children first.
Back when I was a tyke and the lefties were the ones pushing the envelope, it seemed that the righties would have an occasional small victory, and with much fanfare announce that they were taking back the country from the godless decadent heathens. It wasn’t any more true then.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
For six years the supposedly liberal have been afraid to speak out (except Feingold), presumably because they felt that the American public would react badly. These people are essentially spineless weathervanes, and the fact that they are starting to speak up now means they are recognizing that the wind of American public opinion has changed direction. I’ll take any sign of that as a positive, even if the politicos are very conservative about embracing their liberalism.
But yes, on the other hand. the rise of the born agains, evangelicals, and other creationist nutjubs does give me fear. Specifically it’s fear that we’ll go through this all again in 20 years, except instead of post-Wolfowitz neocons it’ll be graduates of Oral Roberts University.