both parties likely to approve Negroponte

In July 1983, after Congress voted to end aid to the Contras, John Negroponte, then embassador to Honduras, sent cables supporting the continuation of the policy ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44944-2005Apr11.html ).  

If you google "Negroponte" and "death squads," read enough links to get the picture, and come out thinking he did not facilitate torture and terror, your sense of evidence and logic works differently from mine.

Under Reagan, the Democratic Party took a decisive step backward from meaning anything.  Reagan sold his tall tales of the contra "Freedom Fighters, "  the Democrats offered no counter-view (Lieberman was a strong contra supporter), and people had nothing to choose between at election times.

Maybe, MAYBE, the Democratic Party is getting a little more backbone.  They did not show much when they did not fight Negroponte's appointment as Embassador of Iraq.  Will it be any different in considering the confirmation of Negroponte as national intelligence director?