Posted by
on Monday, September 25, 2006 2:19:27 PM
An interesting
weekend in Michigan:
the Tigers are in, the Lions are almost out (but have found a QB?), and the
Spartans, well, are the Spartans. John
McCain has been in the national news quite a bit over the weekend, calling for
a quick confirmation of John Bolton, Article,
and listing what practices his ‘torture’ bill prohibits, Article.
First, I like
McCain’s move with Bolton. Bolton was an extremely controversial pick by
Bush a year ago, but now McCain is putting pressure on Democrats to usher him
through the confirmation process to ‘respond’ to Chavez- whom virtually
everyone in the entire country, even Pelosi, detests. McCain waited till all the Democrats used the
national media to finally side with Bush on something, then carefully used the
national media to suggest something concrete the Dems could do to show their
distaste for Chavez. Well done.
The torture
compromise is a difficult topic. My
personal comments on the issue are limited to being surprised by the extent of
the criticism from the right against McCain on this- not because I think they
are off base on their fundamental arguments about the Geneva Convention not
applying to terrorists, but more because if anyone deserves leeway on this
issue, it’s someone who was actually tortured for years in Vietnam.
Finally, only 3 of
204 teams starting 0-3 have made the NFL playoffs since 1990. Article. Although one was the 1995 Lions, I’m not sure
this is our year. Considering how bad
our secondary was last week, I would like an explanation of why we let Andre
Goodman and Chris Cash sign other places.
Congrats to the Tigers on clinching their first playoff birth since 1987!