IT'S NOT TIL YOU READ THE LAWS THAT YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH THIS ADMINISTRATION WINS:

Detainee Measure to Have Fewer Restrictions (R. Jeffrey Smith, September 26, 2006, Washington Post)

Republican lawmakers and the White House agreed over the weekend to alter new legislation on military commissions to allow the United States to detain and try a wider range of foreign nationals than an earlier version of the bill permitted, according to government sources.

Lawmakers and administration officials announced last week that they had reached accord on the plan for the detention and military trials of suspected terrorists, and it is scheduled for a vote this week. But in recent days the Bush administration and its House allies successfully pressed for a less restrictive description of how the government could designate civilians as "unlawful enemy combatants," the sources said yesterday. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of negotiations over the bill.

Kind of reminds you of how the Democrats victory on NCLB stuck them with a voucher program they hate, or the creation of a Department of Homeland Security gutted civil service protections, or the prescription drug bill passed HSAs after fifteen years of futile GOP effort....

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 26, 2006 10:48 AM