Unpleasant Distraction

Forget the ins and outs of the torture debate; the real problem here is no longer what has been done in the past but what will be done in the future. People are agreeing the torture should stop, and they're taking care of measures to ensure it, but an increasing number of government leaders are just pointing fingers and arguing instead of paying attention to steering the country right now.

This Slate piece on the situation makes me wonder if the fearless leaders in Congress (and, my, Ms. Pelosi, are you looking old!) are too busy arguing about the sea buoy they avoided to turn the ocean liner of the U.S. away from that massive cliff in front of them (Read: massive economic issues, crumbling education system, huge deficit, two wars (and more to come!), pandemics, etc.).