Let's sum this up

I'm supposed to believe that Congressional Democratic Leaders were powerless to prevent waterboarding and therefore I must give them a break?

On the one-hand these clowns, with notable exceptions, are averse to moral courage, as long as they wouldn't act like Republicans if they had power (ignore the fact that they sort of are).

While simultaneously, those of us who demand they actually stand for their principles more than say, once a month, are unrealistic denizens of the blog hordes.

And it's the "base" that's the problem?

(picture from here)