Gettin' medieval with it

Dana Milbank, my favorite Washington Post-er, had another extremely amusing edition of his "Washington Sketch" column in today's paper about Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey's waffling on whether waterboarding counts as torture.

Here are some of my favorite snippets:

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition -- and few could have predicted it would play such a prominent role in Washington in 2007. As the United States fights the first war of the 21st century and nuclear weapons spread across the map, President Bush has managed to build a bridge to the 15th century -- by picking a fight with Congress over the use of a weapon perfected by Torquemada.

And this:

Americans, many of whom get their information about medieval torture from Monty Python and Mel Brooks, might be inclined to agree with Cheney: "Waterboarding," after all, sounds like a benign cross between water skiing and snowboarding.

I want to be Dana Milbank when I grow up.