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March 11, 2008

A Sad Day for America
Posted by Michael Cohen

For those of you who might have missed it, today the House of Representatives failed to override President Bush's veto of a bill banning enhanced interrogation techniques including waterboarding and induced hypothermia. The final tally was 225 - 188 and only 5 Republicans voted in support of the override. But don't worry, "we do not torture!" Somewhere Abraham Lincoln is rolling over in his grave.

At one point in our nation's history (in fact probably not so long ago) the President of the United States vetoing a bill that banned waterboarding and other forms of torture -- and all but 5 House Republicans supporting this stance -- would have been kind of a big deal. Not anymore it appears.

Ladies and Gentlemen the Bush years! Makes you pine for the days when Warren Harding was considered the our worst president ever.

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"Somewhere Abraham Lincoln is rolling over in his grave."

Well actually, maybe not. I wrote a whole post on it a while back:
http://thethoughtsontheworld.blogspot.com/2007/05/abraham-lincoln-george-bush-and-civil.html

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