I wish I could explain what is going on....but, I have lost track...and the translation from the Senate is not forthcoming...
At one point today, Stevens was argueing with Warner and Levin about attaching to this Defense Spending Bill, an attachment that had 101 amendments, that Warner and Levin wanted to just PASS without debate...
Byrd got up and said that isn't right..(which I also called Cornyn and Hutchison's office and told the receptionist)...that they shouldn't be passing bills without floor debate...yada..yada...
THEN, Frist stood up and said that the attachment that Warner, Levin wanted attached was NOT germane...so they voted...and it was voted NOT GERMANE....
THEN, Sen. McCain gets up and offers an amendment about torture that I THOUGHT was supposed to be in the attachment that was voted as NON-GERMANE....and it passed....
Go Figure!!!
They voted 90-9 saying that the Army Field manual will be used as guidelines for prisoner treatment...
I am assuming, since this manual hasn't been updated latelty, (from what I have heard in the past)...that this doesn't cover treatments of Islamofascist suicide bombers, and beheaders...
Huh.