Bush hits 70 percent disapproval in ABC News' poll. That's never happened in the history of the poll since 1938. Worse than Nixon. And so richly deserved.
There is a consistency and pattern to the reports, along with detailed testimony from many FBI agents, that make me believe that using faith to torture prisoners was far from rare.
Gabler is surely onto something in seeing the McCarthyite strain in American conservatism being more tenacious and transmittable, because human resentment is more common and politically potent than agreement about limited government.
