Here's something that will be helpful for Democrats in the near future:
compromise (plural compromises)
1. settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions
See, dems don't seem to get that "mutual concessions" part. For Democrats, "compromise" and "give away the store" are synonymous. Case in point, Sen. Charles Schumer's vote to confirm Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey. According to Schumer, Mukasey "made clear to me [in private] that, were Congress to pass a law banning certain interrogation techniques, we would clearly be acting within our constitutional authority. And he flatly told me that the President would have absolutely no legal authority to ignore such a law, not even under some theory of inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution. He also pledged to enforce such a law and repeated his willingness to leave office rather than participate in a violation of law."
Let's assume for a moment that this makes sense and that it doesn't mean that Congress now has to go outlaw every specific type of torture that an inventive sadist can come up with. Let's pretend, just for the sake of argument, that this would be a good deal...
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