Friday, October 07, 2005

At least one of them was right

Nine U.S. senators voted Wednesday against Arizona Sen. John McCain's proposal to amend the defense spending bill to ban "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment" of detainees, and Alabama's own Jeff Sessions was one of them. Mercifully, his in-state colleague, Sen. Richard Shelby, was among the 90-member majority.