Op-Ed Columnist – Putting Torture Behind Us – NYTimes.com.
Kristoff seems to suffer from the common illusion that Republicans want to work together for the good of the country and putting them in charge of investigating Bush Administration abuse of detainees and blatant law breaking will somehow win them over. They only want one thing: to destroy Obama in particular and Democrats in general so they can take back power. There is no winning them over. They will take your grand gesture of bipartisanship and use it as a political bludgeon.
Here’s what the last 8 years have taught me. They have no interest in truth, morality, the Constitution, human rights, international treaties or the rule of law. Their only interest is in the exercise of raw political power to reward their narrow constituancies (Big corporations, the ultra-wealthy and religious extremists, in case you haven’t been paying attention the last 8 years). The rest of you, well you can just go fu%& yourself.
Everything the Obama administration does needs to be viewed through this prism of sad experience. They will take your consessions and hopefull promises to work together and turn them into a garrote to throttle the life from their enemies, which are defined as any and all who fail to mindlessly mouth GOP talking points or have the audacity to point out the reality doesn’t match their idealized fantasies. Working together is an illusion.
