I’m afraid you’re sounding a bit like the Rpublicans today. I wnat. I want. I want.
For them, I’ll use the immigration issue. They want the illegals to disappear into thein air, with no practical solutions of how to achieve that or consideration for the consequences of some of their demans.

For you, it’s Mukasey and torture. Refusing to okay the nomination would not have done anything to strenghen the position on waterboarding.
Bush said he would not nominatie anyone else, so the DOJ would just lumber along the way it is. What would be gained other than an emptry gesture?

This way, at least someone with administrative competence can get the DOJ functioning again.
If Bush is willing to let the DOJ rot just for childish spite, then someone has to step in with an adult sense of responsibility, and there is no one else for that someone to be but Congress.

The question of torture is the same either way.
This way, at least something may improve in the DOJ. It would be nice to see something working in the government, and if the man in charge won’t see to it, then it’s more important to get done whatever can get done than to go off in a huff.
Just saying ‘I want’ won’t get you there.

The Democratic leadership in Congress is not trying that hard because they not that Senator Clinton will be the next president and then they can do whatever they want. Why take a beating in politics today when you get everything you want tomorrow without pain?

There’s a more subtle point. The Democrats (as is true with Clinton’s stage image and campaign image) dare not go too far left or they risk losing what at this time is all but already handed to them.

She has to get into office first, then she and they get to lunge much farther to the left. At least for two years…

there is nothing more important today than the fight over water-boarding

Not true in the real world, just in the lefty cyber-play-pen world, but thanks for the chuckle.

Of course, once the next defective S-CHIP bill is vetoed, once again there will be “nothing more important today” than increasing the funding for S-CHIP, the hyped-crisis-du-jour that predated the waterboarding issue and which will return sometime soon. And we’ll hear lies again about this is all about “the children,” and America’s soul, et cetera, ad nauseum.

There is no question that the last few months have been enormously frustrating regarding the inability of the Democratic Congress to address core issues of the Iraq war and usurpation of powers by the President. The two things that temper it are: (1) D…

And I repeat again, the Republicans are pitiful.

And I repeat again, the RepublicansDemocrats are pitiful.

The Dems are pitiful, Web seems to be the only one with a backbone and most of his war restraining bills are tied up in commitee. Kyl-Lieberman passes and the Webb-Clinton bill is going nowhere.

And I repeat again, the Republicans are pitiful. It’s easier to win than to shape law.

The Democratic leadership in Congress is not trying that hard because they not that Senator Clinton will be the next president and then they can do whatever they want. Why take a beating in politics today when you get everything you want tomorrow without pain?