Denounce torture or else!

I guess the Dems finally got good poll results on demanding that Michael Mukasey denounce waterboarding before becoming attorney general. Or maybe it was Christopher Dodd's threat to filibuster FISA and the fear that that could spread.

I don't care what got them to stand up. I only care that they are promising to. We've sunk so low that it's good news for the opposition Congressional "leaders" to demand that the nominee for AG abjure torture.

Better news would be for them to make it stick. After that, we still have a long way to go to establish again that we are a nation of laws, but it would still be progress.