I noted that Judge Mukasey was approved by the Senate, advising and consenting in their full panoply of majestic anti-Americanism. Judge Mukasey of course, is the George Bu$h-approved Attorney General candidate who has spent many years not only practicing the law, but also wearing the black gown and telling other people what the law means, and, furthermore, teaching law to young minds. Yet, strangely enough, this man apparently doesn’t know how to look up what the laws of the United States have to say about torture.

Or so he would like to have us believe.

I am curious, however, how it is that when the Senate is asked by us, their constituents, the voters, the taxpayers, their employers, to do something like , ohhh….. end the fucking bloodshed, or stop pissing our money down a hole in the sand, or use a constitutional method of firing a couple of criminals, they can’t do it because “we don’t have 60 votes.”

But when it comes time to approve another Bu$h-fellating, constitution-emasculating, illegal-wiretap-loving millionaire, it only takes 53 Senators to hire him up.

Is there some sort of Senate rule I’m not aware of that comes into effect here that makes procedure easier when criminals want something?