Via Eve Tushnet, Mark Shea quotes a letter from a reader on the “outsourcing torture” bill. Mark comments “If the Right manages to push this through, they will have earned my contempt. I see no way a Catholic could possibly support such a heinous law.”
That’s nice, but I don’t think the Republicans really care if they’ve earned Mark’s contempt or not, so long as they have his vote.
(Although Mark’s views on torture are, of course, much to his credit, I have to admit I have an ulterior motive for linking to this; I thought it might amuse “Alas” readers to be reminded of a worldview in which the Democrats are the Party of Evil and the Republicans are the Party of Stupid.)
Cue David Brooks talking about how Democrats have embraced short-sighted and cruel neo-Kissingerian “realism,” whereas Republicans are the party of high-minded ideals.