"Americans don’t like this bill any more today than they did three months ago. They don’t like the frantic backroom deal-making any more now than they did then"
‘When a foreign national terrorist is captured—in the United States like the Christmas bomber, or overseas—he should be sent to Guantanamo, detained there, interrogated there, and the case adjudicated there’
Americans expect big bills to command big majorities. And that’s why this isn’t a fight between Democrats and Republicans. It’s a fight between Democrats inside the Beltway and their constituents beyond it.