So Schumer and Feinstein have caved, and are going ahead to send Mukasey's confirmation to the whole Senate. I caught Chuck's Op-Ed piece in the Times, in which he carefully explains that while "Judge Mukasey’s refusal to state that waterboarding is illegal was unsatisfactory to [him] and many other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee", he's going to go ahead and confirm him instead of letting Bush appoint someone worse for the interim, and then just pass a law against waterboarding which he's sure Mukasey will uphold. Which, if you think waterboarding is already illegal, doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and if you think Bush won't veto that, you're not really paying attention.
But whatever, there's totally hope that this United States Attorney General will consider not torturing people: "Indeed, his written answers to our questions have demonstrated more openness to ending the practices we abhor than either of this president’s previous attorney general nominees have had."
Now that is progress at a BREAKNECK SPEED.
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