In October 2006, the congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA2006). This bill suspended habeas corpus for anyone designated an enemy combatant and retroactively authorized the use of "alternative" interrogation techniques (torture).
This violation of our countries founding principles enjoyed broad bipartisan support. And in fact, even with the Democrats taking control of congress there are still enough MCA2006 supporters left to pass it with a filibuster proof majority.
It's time to primary those torturers out of office. List below.
If you know of primary challengers to anyone on this list, please post their names. I'll do my best to send each of them $20.
2008 Senate Primary (6)
* SD Johnson, Tim [D]
* LA Landrieu, Mary [D]
* NJ Lautenberg, Frank [D]
* NE Nelson, Ben [D]
* AR Pryor, Mark [D]
* WV Rockefeller, John [D]
House Primaries (30)
* NJ-1 Andrews, Robert [D]
* GA-12 Barrow, John [D]
* IL-8 Bean, Melissa [D]
* GA-2 Bishop, Sanford [D]
* OK-2 Boren, Dan [D]
* IA-3 Boswell, Leonard [D]
* FL-2 Boyd, F. [D]
* KY-6 Chandler, Ben [D]
* AL-5 Cramer, Robert [D]
* TX-28 Cuellar, Henry [D]
* AL-7 Davis, Artur [D]
* TN-4 Davis, Lincoln [D]
* TX-17 Edwards, Thomas [D]
* NC-2 Etheridge, Bob [D]
* TN-6 Gordon, Barton [D]
* SD-0 Herseth, Stephanie [D]
* NY-27 Higgins, Brian [D]
* PA-17 Holden, Tim [D]
* GA-8 Marshall, James [D]
* UT-2 Matheson, Jim [D]
* NC-7 McIntyre, Mike [D]
* KS-3 Moore, Dennis [D]
* MN-7 Peterson, Collin [D]
* ND-0 Pomeroy, Earl [D]
* AR-4 Ross, Mike [D]
* CO-3 Salazar, John [D]
* GA-13 Scott, David [D]
* SC-5 Spratt, John [D]
* TN-8 Tanner, John [D]
* MS-4 Taylor, Gene [D]
Let's clean house. When the founders of this country rejected the divine rights of kings, they were rejecting exactly this sort of detention and abuse by the monarchy.
Once we clean out our house, we have another 21 GOP Senate torturers and 177 GOP house torturers up for election in 2008. And those all need the boot in the general election.