Don't count on any change from the Democrats. They're the same guys that have enabled Bush all along.

I don't often copy an entire post from another blog, but this one by Hunter at Daily Kos so entirely reflects my own level of cynicism about where the Democrats are taking us that I had to post it here:'

Yesterday, Congress held hearings about the approval and endorsement, within the White House, of the torture of detainees in United States custody. The response by White House officials was to show up (for once), but to spend the entire hearing laughing in the faces of the questioners via meaningless, unresponsive answers, petty parsing of words, and in one case by -- no kidding -- the witness responding to a question by reading a passage from a book about himself.

Faced with this level of obstruction, there seems only one path available to the Congress: we must pass a bill retroactively making everything they did legal, and change the law so that torture is legal going forward.

That way the reputation of the White House won't be harmed, and these people won't be unduly burdened by these questions in the future, and this whole "a Republican administration drew up plans for torturing innocent human beings to find out what they know" business will be put to rest so that it can't be used against the Democrats in upcoming elections.

That sounds like a reasonable compromise, don't you think?

Oh, and I'm sure somebody needs a tax cut. Maybe people who advocate torture should get 20% off at Macy's.