Sit through an ad to read Glenn Greenwald on Mukasey's nomination for AG.
Money:
"[Mukasey's] beliefs [about torture and executive power]...would have been unthinkable six years ago in an Attorney General. But now, it and he are well within mainstream Beltway ideology..."
Six. Years. Ago.
That's how it goes. A country makes a wrong turn, and all of a sudden it doesn't recognize itself.
Waterboarding and domestic spying are on the table.
And there's a "police state atmosphere at the legal border."
It happens *fast* when it happens.
Obviously. Because if people slowed down and thought about it, they wouldn't do it. Extremism can only be plunged into.
Well.
Maybe we'll be okay.
