The GOP

With the Republicans satisfactorily in the minority right now, can they still grip our collective shit?

Of course they can!

Senate Republicans are threatening President Obama with a political 'thermo-nuclear' response should he go public with a new set of 'torture memos' uncovered from the Bush administration.

These memos provide proof that the White House authorized interrogation practises including "waterboarding, isolated confinement in coffin-like containers and repeated head smacking".

Practises that all violate Geneva Conventions. Practises which Bush said his services did not indulge in.

Importantly, practises which could be used by world courts to indict Bush administration officials - possibly even the ex-President or ex-Vice President - and potentially charge them with war crimes.

The Republican response is to (as usual) hide the truth from the public, with Texas Sen. John Cornyn and others indicating that they will throw their toys out of the pram and filibuster Obama's nominations to the Justice and State departments and use whatever other political weapons they have at their disposal should the President unleash these damaging (but only to the GOP) memos.