Today's GOP: Lesson One

As often as we see this simple precept of the Republican party, it's something that many people seem to forget, and a lot of Congressional Democrats just never seem to grasp.

The first paragraph of the AP's latest report on the Bush administration's detainee legislation: "President Bush urged the Senate on Thursday to follow the House lead and approve a White House plan for detaining and interrogating terrorism suspects, saying, 'The American people need to know we're working together to win the war on terror.'"

The second paragraph of the same report: "Bush met in the Capitol with Senate Republicans the day after the House passed the legislation that Republicans likely will use on the campaign trail to assert that Democrats want to coddle terrorists."

It's a simple lesson, but Democrats and the mainstream press seem incapable of absorbing it-- it doesn't matter how much you try to cozy up to the neo-fascists. You'll never be their friend.