Perhaps this shouldn't surprise me; but it does. Sen. Mel Martinez (R) of Florida yesterday gave a partial endorsement of Sen. Biden's call to shutdown the prison camp (let's call it what it is) at Guantanamo Bay.

Martinez isn't a senator like Hagel or McCain. He's Bush's former HUD secretary. And he was elected, more or less, as a Bush proxy.

I'm not sure I have anything to add at the moment to the growing chorus of outrage at what we've collectively allowed to happen just off our shores. But there is some mix of grim appropriateness and shameful symmetry to the fact that we've chosen the one piece of territory in the Americas free of free elections, civil rights and civil liberties to build our own human rights free zone.