Yet Another Bullshit GOP Ploy?

From Atrios:

CNN is reporting that the Senate Armed Service Committee has rejected the Bush's latest "compromise" offer on torturing people. I have yet to figure out if this is a real conflict or an elaborate dance.

I had the exact same thought as I was listening to a report on this issue this morning on NPR. This whole dispute between Bush and the three GOP senators (plus Colin Powell) seems like a set-up to make Bush look tough against all them tinhorn terrorists. He's so tough, in fact -- and so full of hatred for the evildoers -- that even his own party has to tone him down. It's like the American people are being subjected to a form of the "good cop/bad cop" routine.

One thing is for certain -- they sure seem to be going out of their way to make this "dispute" as open and public as possible.