Glenn Greenwald on Today's Vote

12 Stupid Democratic Senators vote for the bill. Ass-holes. You can see the list here.

Greenwald is good:

But it is still difficult to understand the Democrats' strategy here. They failed to try to mount a filibuster because they feared being attacked as coddlers of the terrorists. But now they voted against the bill in large numbers, thereby ensuring those exact accusations will be made anyway -- and made loudly (the White House already started today). Yet they absented themselves the whole time from the debate (until they magically appeared today), spent the last several weeks only tepidly (at most) opposing the President's position, and thus lost the opportunity to defend and advocate the position they took today in any meaningful way. As a result, the Democrats took a position today (opposition to this bill) which they have not really defended until today.

They make this same mistake over and over. Isn't this exactly what happened when they sort-of-supported-but-sort-of-opposed the Iraq war resolution in 2002 because they were afraid of being depicted as soft on terrorism, only to then be successfully depicted as soft on terrorism because they were too afraid to forcefully defend their position?

Exactly. I called poor Dana today and passed the angry baton that I got from Carly yesterday. I hate that Rove is happy. Some Democrats voting for it and some against it works perfectly for him. Now the Republicans can call the bill "bipartisan" and also portray the people against it as "fringe crazies". Why can't they just stick together? ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED AGAINST IT. ONE.

It really is a sad day in this country. (link shows graphic photo)