One left-wing blogger feels it:
The argument against torture is slipping away from us. In fact, I’m getting the sinking feeling that it’s over. What was once taboo is now publicly acknowledged as completely acceptable by many people. Indeed, disapproval of torture is now being characterized as a strictly partisan issue, like welfare reform or taxes.
I presume that like welfare and taxes, any “strictly partisan issue” will favor Republicans, but this seems about right to me, particularly on a day that Richard Cohen takes to the Washington Post op-ed page to wonder aloud whether Dick Cheney was right — whether enhanced interrogation does work:
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