September 28, 2006

The "Moderate" Senators from Maine?

Can we please stop calling them that now? Pro-choice doesn't equal "moderate", and except for that issue, how reliably moderate are they? Today Specter and Leahy proposed an amendment to strip the Detainee bill of its provisions that strip away habeas corpus rights. Did the senators from Maine back that - no. Respecting a centuries old tradition that's a bedrock of civil liberties and the US legal system would seem to me to be a prerequisite for being a moderate American politician - I mean what's more American than upholding a central right and our legal system? But the senators from Maine chose not to respect and uphold those all-American traditions.

And why am I harping on those two? Because if they'd voted the moderate, traditionally American way - Specter and Leahy's proposal would have passed. But they didn't, and it failed - 48-51.

Posted by armand at September 28, 2006 02:13 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics | The Ever Shrinking Constitution


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