Bush grows a spine

From The Washington Post:

President Bush warned defiant Republican senators yesterday that he will close down a CIA interrogation program that he credited with thwarting terrorist attacks if they pass a proposal regulating detention of enemy combatants, escalating a politically charged battle that has exposed divisions within his party.

An irritated Bush, raising his voice and gesturing sharply at a Rose Garden news conference, excoriated legislation passed by a Senate panel Thursday that is intended to conform U.S. detainee practices with the Geneva Conventions. Bush insisted on legislation more specifically defining what is banned so intelligence officers would not worry about being charged with war crimes.

The President has decided to play hardball on this -- Good.

Mr. Bush is going to get what he wants on this. The Senate understands that the American people do not what their children to die in the next terrorist attack on US soil because John McCain wants to polish his reputation as a "GOP maverick".