Will the Democrats fight the Torture Legalization act?

The seed planted there in Nuremberg in '47
Started to sprout and grow
Gradually I understood what that verdict meant to me
When there are crimes that I can see and know
                     - Pete Seeger, "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage"

Being a Jacksonian Democrat and all, I hate to indulge in bashing the Democratic Party for any reason, especially during election season.  But the fact that the Cheney-Bush administration's Torture Legalization Act of 2006 - the official name is the "Bringing Terrorists to Justice Act of 2006" - is on the verge of passing and being signed into law, possibly as early as the end of this week, it's pretty discouraging to see that the part of Jefferson and Jackson has taken such a passive role in the Congressional debates.

I've posted some of my thoughts on this at length, including an audioblog, at The Blue Voice.  I won't try to repeat that here, not least because the subject is such a grim one.

But it's hard not to sympathize for the moment with Glen Greenwald's complaint in the War Room blog in his post Battling Democrats' indifference 09/22/06:

With all those facts assembled, it is truly difficult to avoid indifference over the outcome of this upcoming election.  But then one ponders what the next two years is likely to bring our country if the Bush administration continues to exercise full-scale, unchecked power over all facets of our government - a Congress that rubber-stamps a war with Iran (if it is allowed to vote at all); a likely Supreme Court nomination to replace the 86-year-old John Paul Stevens, which would create an executive-power-worshiping majority on the Supreme Court for the next couple of decades; more presidential lawbreaking, and the further entrenchment of one-party rule.  And then one realizes that indulging the desire to see the timid, meek, frightened, principle-less Beltway Democrats get what they deserve (still more defeat) is something that our country simply cannot afford if it is to have any hope of avoiding passing the point of no return, where both our national security and our national character are fundamentally degraded in a way that is irreversible.

The "opposition party" is literally missing, silent, mute and invisible.  And yet the only hope for reversing or at least halting any of this is to have that same Democratic Party actually somehow win an election and provide some desperately needed gridlock and balance and investigative processes to find out what our government has been doing. That is about as bleak of a picture as one can imagine.

There's also the fact that Bush has already announced he intends to make another push for his Social Security phase-out plan in 2007.  The Democrats are doing nearly as much as they should.  But they have been doing a good job fighting to preserve and protect Social Security and on many other issues vital to the well-being of working families.  So it's not at all a matter of indifference who wins the midterm Congressional elections this year.

But the torture legalization bill is a very important issue.  The Democrats should not be found AWOL on this one.