Quickie

From the Reuters article we linked to in the ‘news dump’ earlier: Sen. Frist sees deal on bill to ban torture by US

Sen. Lindsey Graham said the Bush administration and amendment supporters were still negotiating. “We’re not close to a deal,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“There is a breakdown along how to best protect the troops. There is a philosophical difference here I don’t want to divulge,” the South Carolina Republican said, when asked if the White House was seeking immunity for possible past torture.

“The vice president is not the vice president of torture,” he said. “He is trying to create exemptions, in my opinion, to protect our people who go too far.”

He’s absolutly right, you know. The vice president is not the vice president of torture. He’s the vice president of the United States . . . the United States of Torture!

That’s so funny, it’s not even funny.