A Defining Moment for America...

Here's a Washington Post editorial. The headline really says it all, but the first paragraph lays it out even straighter.

A Defining Moment for America: The president goes to Capitol Hill to lobby for torture

PRESIDENT BUSH rarely visits Congress. So it was a measure of his painfully skewed priorities that Mr. Bush made the unaccustomed trip yesterday to seek legislative permission for the CIA to make people disappear into secret prisons and have information extracted from them by means he dare not describe publicly.

Nothing else really to say here. ...