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October 06, 2005

The widening rift

Following the logic of Kev's post just below, the evidence of a large and expanding rift in the Republican Party is beginning to surface.

The Miers nomination has some factions of the conservative set quite clearly pissed off, perhaps rightfully so. I've been working over the last few days collecting articles about Miers. Her paper trail is indeed essentially nonexistent. But the conflicting information about Ms. Miers views on topics ranging from abortion/Roe, gay rights and poverty have got to be giving the Dobson set a heart attack.

Last night's senate vote to place strict limits on detainee interrogation techniques is a hard move away from Bush as well. 46 members of the once lock-step Republican Party voted to strip authority for the military to use "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment while in US custody.

Personally, I'm disgusted that such a law is necessary. We have to tell our President and our military that we are better than our enemies by forcing a rider on to a military spending bill. Which, if he House passes, is under threat of veto by the President because of the anti-torture language.

However it seems that a significant number of Republican Senators are disgusted too. Finally. Whether it's Bush's tanking poll numbers or a more genuine shift in public opinion, the Republican Party is no longer standing in unison behind the President or with each other.

And its going to get worse.

Posted by Carla at October 6, 2005 07:52 AM