Voting For Torture

This, of course, is just the latest example of John McCain's Double Talk Express. He once was a supposed champion of campaign finance reform, but now he's declined public money in his Presidential race, and has rejected the public financing model that he taped public service announcements in favor of in his native Arizona. He's talked about cleaning up Washington from corruption, yet he's taken $100,000 from Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm Greenberg Traurig, from employees of the criminal Republican benefactor. He's described himself as some different kind of Republican, yet he shared the stage last night with noted "Jew-counter" Fred Malek, who worked for Nixon making sure there weren't too many Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. To say nothing of McCain's other companions, Macaca George Allen and Tom "I believe in the death penalty for abortionists like me" Coburn.

But this really takes the cake. McCain's principled and honorable stances on torture were nothing but meaningless words. His actions tell a different story. There's no other way to look at it.

UPDATE: Here's McCain on the stump back in November:

"I would hope that we would understand, my friends, that life is not 24 and jack bauer. Life is interrogation techniques which are humane and yet effective. And I just came back from visiting a prison in iraq. The army general there said that technques under the army field manual are working and working effectively, and he didn't think they need to do anything else. My friends, this is what america is all about."