Senator Arlen Specter, arguably the elder statesman and cooler head on the Republican side, is doing it again. He has a special problem with nominations during the Bush administration, holding his nose to approve the nominations of several anti-New Deal, anti-worker, anti-Me judges.
Now he's making a terrible and gratuitous concession to the dark side. Torture is illegal in the US, meaning the US government and our citizens are not allowed to do it. Waterboarding is torture. By refusing to accede that point, Mukasey paints himself as a politician. If he says it's not torture he won't be nominated. If he says it is torture he may be nominated to preside at Justice while war crimes prosecutions are assembled.
I'm okay with no head at Justice. We Americans have local judges and police, mayors, parents, all kinds of people in positions of authority who belong in our lives. Bush's AG has traditionally been the enabler for the decider, and not the advocate of public safety and order. The war on drugs, for example, doesn't need Mukasey, who would be more likely recruited to the cause of insider trading and corporate immunity.
Specter acknowledges he's voting aye on Mukasey despite the terrible position he's been placed in, but the important issue is simple rule of law. Bush routinely issues those infamous signing statements, written into the record as pro-forma absolution as he refuses to abide by the bill as he signs it into law. Allowing that wiggle room for this horrible sham of a 'President' is unacceptable. Mukasey's limp position here means Bush won't be prosecuted even though the technique is illegal because torture is illegal and waterboarding is torture.
Once again, this should invite another investigation. We were promised investigations by Fox, by the Republicans losing their seats, by the Democrats coming into power. Now they're in, and I'm glad they're strategizing for '08 and beyond. But we need to declaw these bastards and the front burner right now is assigning a lawyer to Justice who would hold the line and bring the administration back into the light.
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Monday, November 05, 2007
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Wow! Finally a firing!
Wow! Hard to believe, but after pages and pages of lies in print, hours of audio lies and an aggressive miseducation campaign, tons of ordnance, fuel, food, machinery, even after the cave people developed methods for shooting down our helicopters (flying over Baghdad too long, those fucks don't have ANYTHING to do by figure out how to blow stuff up), after a list of senior military officers were dismissed for speaking frankly, FINALLY, a high-ranking member of this collossal cluster fuck got fired for cause. He wasn't in Iraq though, and he's being replaced by the fuckup he replaced.
So now I turn to you, the "Support our troops" phonies. Your shithead war, your shithead president, the shithead Secretary of Defense, the shithead VP, everybody on the button-pusher side of this bullshit phony 'war'. How are you? How do you feel about the terrible conditions some of the the wounded soldiers you care so much about have been subjected to WHEN THEY CAME HOME WITHOUT PARTS OF THEMSELVES. Makes me think of the imaginary soldier spitters greeting the Vietnam returns. What a fuck in the ass!
Plop atop that sundae the gag order. We've invited these young (and more mature) patriots to our new colony in the sunny fertile crescent to help Paul Wolfowitz pad his resume, force them to get blown up by guerillas after bowing to Al-Sadr and failing to install our puppet, let anybody with feet waltz across the border with anything they can carry (no beer though), we yodel and moo about increased security and Constitutions, we wonder why physics continues to work even though Bush is president (Nature abhors a power vacuum, just as Iran abhors Sunni Iraq's easy water access), we herd our maimed finest into a sty, and then we threaten them with jail if they exercise their first amendment right to speak about how shitty the Republican Party is.
You're not bad people, I think you're just crazy. Right now you're saying "This isn't the Republicans, it's the Iraqis blowing them up!" But Bush appointees run the military, because the Republican Party gets free blowjobs at the White House. Or something, it's got to have a reason for life to have meaning.
So now I turn to you, the "Support our troops" phonies. Your shithead war, your shithead president, the shithead Secretary of Defense, the shithead VP, everybody on the button-pusher side of this bullshit phony 'war'. How are you? How do you feel about the terrible conditions some of the the wounded soldiers you care so much about have been subjected to WHEN THEY CAME HOME WITHOUT PARTS OF THEMSELVES. Makes me think of the imaginary soldier spitters greeting the Vietnam returns. What a fuck in the ass!
Plop atop that sundae the gag order. We've invited these young (and more mature) patriots to our new colony in the sunny fertile crescent to help Paul Wolfowitz pad his resume, force them to get blown up by guerillas after bowing to Al-Sadr and failing to install our puppet, let anybody with feet waltz across the border with anything they can carry (no beer though), we yodel and moo about increased security and Constitutions, we wonder why physics continues to work even though Bush is president (Nature abhors a power vacuum, just as Iran abhors Sunni Iraq's easy water access), we herd our maimed finest into a sty, and then we threaten them with jail if they exercise their first amendment right to speak about how shitty the Republican Party is.
You're not bad people, I think you're just crazy. Right now you're saying "This isn't the Republicans, it's the Iraqis blowing them up!" But Bush appointees run the military, because the Republican Party gets free blowjobs at the White House. Or something, it's got to have a reason for life to have meaning.
Wow! Finally a firing!
Wow! Hard to believe, but after pages and pages of lies in print, hours of audio lies and an aggressive miseducation campaign, tons of ordnance, fuel, food, machinery, even after the cave people developed methods for shooting down our helicopters (flying over Baghdad too long, those fucks don't have ANYTHING to do by figure out how to blow stuff up), after a list of senior military officers were dismissed for speaking frankly, FINALLY, a high-ranking member of this collossal cluster fuck got fired for cause. He wasn't in Iraq though, and he's being replaced by the fuckup he replaced.
So now I turn to you, the "Support our troops" phonies. Your shithead war, your shithead president, the shithead Secretary of Defense, the shithead VP, everybody on the button-pusher side of this bullshit phony 'war'. How are you? How do you feel about the terrible conditions some of the the wounded soldiers you care so much about have been subjected to WHEN THEY CAME HOME WITHOUT PARTS OF THEMSELVES. Makes me think of the imaginary soldier spitters greeting the Vietnam returns. What a fuck in the ass!
Plop atop that sundae the gag order. We've invited these young (and more mature) patriots to our new colony in the sunny fertile crescent to help Paul Wolfowitz pad his resume, force them to get blown up by guerillas after bowing to Al-Sadr and failing to install our puppet, let anybody with feet waltz across the border with anything they can carry (no beer though), we yodel and moo about increased security and Constitutions, we wonder why physics continues to work even though Bush is president (Nature abhors a power vacuum, just as Iran abhors Sunni Iraq's easy water access), we herd our maimed finest into a sty, and then we threaten them with jail if they exercise their first amendment right to speak about how shitty the Republican Party is.
You're not bad people, I think you're just crazy. Right now you're saying "This isn't the Republicans, it's the Iraqis blowing them up!" But Bush appointees run the military, because the Republican Party gets free blowjobs at the White House. Or something, it's got to have a reason for life to have meaning.
So now I turn to you, the "Support our troops" phonies. Your shithead war, your shithead president, the shithead Secretary of Defense, the shithead VP, everybody on the button-pusher side of this bullshit phony 'war'. How are you? How do you feel about the terrible conditions some of the the wounded soldiers you care so much about have been subjected to WHEN THEY CAME HOME WITHOUT PARTS OF THEMSELVES. Makes me think of the imaginary soldier spitters greeting the Vietnam returns. What a fuck in the ass!
Plop atop that sundae the gag order. We've invited these young (and more mature) patriots to our new colony in the sunny fertile crescent to help Paul Wolfowitz pad his resume, force them to get blown up by guerillas after bowing to Al-Sadr and failing to install our puppet, let anybody with feet waltz across the border with anything they can carry (no beer though), we yodel and moo about increased security and Constitutions, we wonder why physics continues to work even though Bush is president (Nature abhors a power vacuum, just as Iran abhors Sunni Iraq's easy water access), we herd our maimed finest into a sty, and then we threaten them with jail if they exercise their first amendment right to speak about how shitty the Republican Party is.
You're not bad people, I think you're just crazy. Right now you're saying "This isn't the Republicans, it's the Iraqis blowing them up!" But Bush appointees run the military, because the Republican Party gets free blowjobs at the White House. Or something, it's got to have a reason for life to have meaning.
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