Weekend Funnies: The In-Our-Names Edition

Blogger 'Billmon' said the following a week ago when we naively held onto hope that the 'maverick' Republicans were serious and/or that Democrats would more visibly join the fight: "We are, in a sense, at the moment of truth. The sadistic and/or bizarre acts committed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and the CIA's secret prisons can be written off as the crimes of a few bad apples with names like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld -- or, more charitably, as the consequences of a string of bad and brutal decisions made under emergency conditions by men who were terrified by all the things they didn't know about Al Qaeda. Either way, they were not acts of national policy, endorsed and approved by Congress after open, public debate... So now we'll find out, I guess, what we're really made of as a nation -- down deep, in our core."

We got our answer this week. And it wasn't pretty. We torture.

[Related reading:
-Andrew Sullivan: Stop The Torture Bill
-Glenn Greenwald: Everyone -- including Democrats -- agrees to pretend that Bush "compromised" on torture
-Digby: Rigorous Process]