venomous porridge

These are gold. My favorites:

• Do you pledge not to pursue war crime prosecution against the Taliban when they waterboard our soldiers?
• What Sharia laws do you support other than criminalizing homosexuality, shaming assault victims & legalizing theocracy?
• When you slash funding for the NIH, how will you notify parents that their children’s cancer treatments are being ended?

Read them all.

squashed:

This act enshrines the practice of indefinitely detaining people who are suspected by a Presidential Administration of terrorist connections without trial. It overwhelmingly passed the Senate. Here are the few senators who still believe that the Constitution prevents you from being locked up indefinitely on a mere suspicion.

• Sen. Thomas Coburn (R, OK)
• Sen. Thomas Harkin (D, IA)
• Sen. Mike Lee (R, UT)
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D, OR)
• Sen. Rand Paul (R, KY)
• Sen. Bernard Sanders (I, VT)

(If we can persuade Obama to veto this act, Congress will probably reconsider the problematic provisions and this number will grow.)

There’s a seventh nay vote missing from the above list, and it’s the other gentleman from Oregon:

• Sen. Ron Wyden (D, OR)

I’m proud to live in the only state both of whose Senators voted against this atrocity.