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Is it just me, or does that aspen thing sound eerily Lecteresque?

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"Your torture aplogism is bad, and you should feel bad."

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It's not torture or bombing if the president does it.

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If "everyone knew" about the practices Snowden revealed, how can he be a traitor?

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<i>"What is the opposite of a charlatan, someone who knows stuff but pretends they don’t? 'Raving asshole', maybe?” </i>

The phrase you want is "raving disingenuous asshole."

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<i>everyone’s favorite unindicted war criminal John Yoo</i>

Well, it's a close call with W, DICK Cheney, Rummy, Condi, Bolton, Wolfowitz, et al, ad nauseum...

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When I'm having an identity crisis, I find it helps to remind myself that I am not Yoo.

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More likely an automobile ignition coil.

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It's not torture, Wonkerados, if Yoo does it.

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Hey Rocky, watch me waterboard these Pottsylvanians!

But that trick never works!

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That would be Peter King

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Because he has none?

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Well, obviously, since this isn't the President he first declared could not be so encumbered.

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I suspect hydraulics.

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Here's wishing John Yoo "massive organ failure."

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Because Dick Cheney has been too sick to wear his stilettos.

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