Torture for the children?

After the Dems’ Chief (G)Assbag Chuckles Schumer gave his blessing for smooth sailing, the confirmation of Judge Michael Mukasey as Attorney General has hit some rough water. Dems have seized on the issue of issue of waterboarding as means to poke another sharp stick into President Bush’s eye and in the process leave in doubt MuKasey’s AG nomination.

This would be a great opportunity for conservatives, if they had the brains to take advantage of it. The problem is that every pol has the tendency, the want, the need, the desire to appear noble and high minded. So they hem and haw around waterboarding as if it were deciding between cheesecake and the chocolate fudge brownie on the dessert menu. The average American, on the other hand have none of these reservations. They just want to be safe.

Try this scenario with the (g)assbags. I’ll even clean the scenario up so it doesn’t appear as if I’m profiling murderous Islamo-terror-fascists that anyone with a brain recognizes as the enemy. Sven and his band of blue eyed, blonde haired, light skinned is Norwegians are sick and tired of American educational institutions’ tolerance of everything but conservative thought. They decide to take over a high school in the Midwest and kill all of the liberals. Ahhh, but Sven stops off in Minnesota for a curling event and after having one too many Norwegian Icebergs to tamp the chill down, let’s details of his nefarious plan slip. He’s arrested by the FBI.

Now Mzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Clinton, Sven’s merry band of Norwegian high school bombers are lose in America ready to strike in 12 hours, what do you do? You’ve already tried reading him his rights in a stern manner; given him 3 hour to meet with a lawyer – enough to break any sane man; fed him the gourmet prison cuisine at Gitmo and given him a warm bath before getting REALLY rough and making him stand on one foot for 15 minutes, while watching Rosie O’Donnell’s web cam. But Sven is tough and doesn’t break. What now?

I believe that any reasonable person would begin shoving bamboo pieces under Sven’s fingernails at about the ten second mark into the process if it were his children at risk. I also believe that the preening (g)assbags class now ready to stomp on the Mukasey nomination are doing so for purely political reasons. After all, we know that, for pols, it is always better to appear to be high minded than to actually have to use their mind.