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So AG Eric Holder announces that the White House will seek a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects with first informing them of their Miranda rights.

I'll let Matt Taibbi speak for me here:

For the Democrats, it will surely end up being one of the darker moments of the Obama presidency — not because it’s necessarily so terribly meaningful (at least compared to ending Too-Big-to-Fail), but because it represents a new low on the utter-lack-of-balls front. The only reason we’re even talking about this Miranda issue is because a bunch of morons on talk radio made a big fuss about it, and if our president is going to go sticking his thumbs into the constitution every time he can’t take a few days of getting reamed by a bunch of overpaid media shills whose job it is to hate him no matter what he does, then we’re all in a lot of trouble.

Although I have my concerns about the constitutional implications of knee-jerk rights-stripping in the name of terror-war, I'm really concerned moving forward about the total pussification of the Obama White House. The reading of the Miranda rights wasn't an issue until right-wing media started popping off about this. It's one thing for Republican lawmakers to make noise on this and have the White House react, but this is re-goddamn-diculous.

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