Welcome to the Gulag

Our Congress has officially given the green light to this Administration to act on its worst impulses. (Not that it hasn't been doing so already, of course, but now it doesn't even have to hide its atrocities.) The Senate confirmed bill S. 3930 on Thursday; the Democrats couldn't even muster enough human beings to filibuster this excrement, and only a single Republican (Chaffey of RI) broke ranks in a blatant ploy to bolster his image as a "moderate" to potentially forestall his ouster in November. I have no doubt that if the vote was any closer, he would have voted differently anyway, so let's not rush to praise the distinguished jackass from Rhode Island--he's voted party line every other time he's been asked.
What's in this bill, to become law as soon as Smirky figures out that for it to work, you have to take the cap off? Let's see: Habeas corpus? You can now be jailed without cause with no judicial recourse, as long as the President approves. And it's backdated to 9/11/01, too! The Geneva Convention? The President now decides what the Geneva Convention Laws mean--he has sole discretion as to the interpretation of the Geneva Convention! Which means that Smirky also gets to interpret what "cruel" "inhuman", and even "torture" mean! Congress just gave a blank check to the President to imprison and torture anyone he wants without any oversight whatsoever.
In other words, this Republican Congress and its enablers has just thrown hundreds of years of laws out the window, and I'm not even exaggerating--habeas corpus rights were first enunciated in the freakin' Magna Carta, for God's sake!
These evil sociopaths need to be stopped, by any means necessary. I have little faith that our electoral process is pure enough to be trusted any longer, and our hopeful "wait, work, and pray" strategy for November may be simply a last naïve gamble on that gossamer faith. I wish I were kidding, but mass assassinations of those willing, eager, and able to sell out this nation's soul--and for what? money? safety? power?--are becoming a more and more sane possibility. Anyone stupid, selfish, and evil enough to vote Republican this November, or in 2008, or ever again, should immediately be jailed and tortured just to show them what it is they are supporting. We are no longer a nation of laws, and we have now reached a moral edge most people talk about theoretically, as in: If you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler or Stalin in the crib? It may be that time now for us living here today, because our government has now declared war on anyone it wants to. My guess is, Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq are merely the first victims in this worldwide purge of anyone whom Der Führer Smirky dislikes.
Jeebus, we are screwed. Thanks a bunch, Republicans! Thanks, Christian Fundamentalists! Thanks, mainstream media! Thanks, spineless Democrats! Thanks, Ralph Naderites! Thanks, Ronnie, for starting us down this path 25 years ago! Thanks, Babs, for raising such a foul, sociopathic, evil bully! May all your flesh be flayed in Hell forever . . .