Deal May Be in Works on Interrogations...

[bridgit]

'WASHINGTON -- Despite professing confidence they can compromise, the president's national security aides and holdout Republican senators are not saying how they can reconcile deep differences over limits on CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists.

After a week of public sparring, both sides gave little evidence Sunday of how they might soften their position. As a result, it is unclear if Congress quickly can pass legislation authorizing aggressive methods against terrorist detainees, as President Bush wants.' http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/17/AR2006091700276.html

[bleever]

1. The administration's needs are pretty clear:

[Jazzgirl]

2. And they probably will get their

get out of jail free card. Thats what makes me so mad. This is posturing and they are gonna go along with whatever the asshole wants. Specter is good at making it look like he's resisting but he isn't. Its a show.

JG

[gademocrat7]

3. No Compromise.

Leave the Geneva Convention alone.

[bridgit]

4. agreed, none...

leave it as is

[acmejack]

5. I expected nothing less.

The "resistors", these brave three republiclown Senators have all screwed us before after posturing exactly like this. Lindsey Graham is a sorry clown remember him from the Clinton impeachment spectacle, Specter is nothing more than a mealy mouthed wimp, and as for Mr. Straight Talker, what a misnomer...

[bridgit]

6. i think that's right, the same 3 or some other 3, but only just enough...

to lend some lighter-than-air impression of compassionate republicanism...as if x(