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Steve Gilliard:

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“The torture bill is a cruel joke, so riddle with flaws, so unconstitutional, it won’t survive the District Court — which is the calculation Dems in tight races made.

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We cannot give them a pass. We cannot just say that’s the GOP. Because if some Democrats played politics, it is the Republicans who betrayed the constitution. It is far too easy to write off their duty to the nation based on politics. Oh, well, they’re wingnuts. No, they are elected to defend the constitution, not the Republican party. And in that, they have betrayed this country and it’s ideals.”

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And Republicans, somehow, will find a way to use those very same Democratic votes in campaign ads next month against Democrats.

Politics is a no win game; the dice are always loaded.

With that being reality, here’s a clue for Democrats: as the opposition party, your role is to oppose (especially in this case), not to straddle the line of insanity in order to gather the just-right-of-moderate votes.

God forbid if the Judiciary is rigged and this unconstitutional, un-American garbage goes through…