Are you saying that all we have to do to derail this H.R. 6198 is get one senator to be against it? I will start calling now!

Our virtues are usually only vices in disguise.

Are the new political means.
It really doesn't matter.
I say, You say.
What matters is the truth and it has been lost!
I am right and you are wrong is the Mantra!
The problem is that the truth is now lost. Politics is the whole discussion. The lies are the new truth, and both parties have fallen in to this trap!
I can go on about this about big business stealing money from the people for their gains, but this is another story.

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But wait- there's still hope for Congress-

The Onion - Led by a bipartisan group of senators critical of White House policy on suspected terrorists, the Senate passed a bill Thursday that prohibits interrogators from exceeding 100 amps per testicle when questioning detainees.

"Even in times of war, it is counterproductive and wrong to employ certain inhumane interrogation techniques, and using three-digit amperage levels on the testicles of captives constitutes torture," said Sen. John Warner (R-VA), who has also supported reducing the size of attack dogs and the height of nude pyramids

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