Pushback Pt. V

Here's the danger the administration faces in framing its critics as quasi-treasonous pussies after the decisive center has turned against the war. The old white shoes foreign policy machers who've been keeping silent for the sake of the process and propriety and blah blah blah don't appreciate the abuse. Like Stansfield Turner, ex-CIA director [but under Carter, a definite quasi-treasonous pussy--ed. Well, okay but he's an admiral, so I think the two points are a wash.] who opines

I'm embarrassed the United States has a vice president for torture...He condones torture, what else is he?

What else is he? A gaping asshole.

RADIO-FRIENDLY VERSION: "It seems to me it would be more helpful if Republicans and conservatives offered positive arguments for how to do better instead of attacking every critic as a wuss, unpatriotic, inconsistent, or worse." Yeah, okay, that is language more befitting an employee of Time.