Jonah, my favorite part of that priceless snippet from George Stephanopolos is that if you substitute the more mild “aggressively interrogate” of “detain without trial” for hardnose George’s “kill” or “assassinate,” and then substitute “al Qaeda terrorist” for “Saddam Hussein,” you will have made the moral and national security case for Guantanamo Bay.

Gee, the Democrats sure were a lot more flexible about the use of executive power to protect the country between 1992 and 2000 than they seem to have been since then. Wonder why that is …