McCain dodges on Mukasey.
McCain dodges on Mukasey.
This morning, ThinkProgress reported that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) strongly denounced the torture technique of waterboarding, and implicitly criticized those — such as Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey and Rudy Giuliani — who have hedged on their own views of the practice. We questioned whether McCain would hold up Mukasey’s confirmation — as many Senate Judiciary Committee members are threatening to do — until Mukasey clarifies his views. The Huffington Post posed that question to a McCain aide, who responded with a dodge:
“The Judiciary Committee process is ongoing and Sen. McCain believes that Judge Mukasey deserves an up-or-down vote based on his qualifications for the office of Attorney General,” a McCain aide said in a Friday e-mail.
A decidedly un-”maverick” reply.
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Does this mean McJowell’s no longer believe his own words? “It’s not about who they are, but about who we are.”
October 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pmMcCain is being indecisive. He is trying to protect his political future, which seems is quite endangered. Mukasey is q qualified individual. He should be confirmed.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pmTo be fair, this is an aide who gave a politically safe answer. It’s not McCains opinion on Mukasey’s view on torture. Nor is it showing how McCain will vote. It’s a dodge and McCain’s vote will show if he will stand by his convictions or not.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:33 pmhits misses again.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:33 pmwhat happened with the straight talk express?….
oh yeah….it’s now the “say anything” elevator.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:34 pm… john mcCAVE…
October 26th, 2007 at 2:35 pm…
John McCain is a man of poor character. This just strengthens my assertion.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:38 pmterrorist coddlers? that’s funny. You are forgetting the terrorist attack with anthrax. You are also forgetting the one responsible for attacking us is safe in Pakistan.
Bush has created more terrorists than OBL has. There have been more terrorist attacks worldwide since Bush came to office.
He’s doing a miserable job and you know it.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:42 pmLAFWH is obviously a full-time nut job.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:43 pmIt must be PTSD!
October 26th, 2007 at 2:45 pm“The Judiciary Committee process is ongoing and Sen. McCain believes that Judge Mukasey deserves an up-or-down vote based on his qualifications for the office of Attorney General,†a McCain aide said in a Friday e-mail.
The judge deserves an “up or down” vote, but important legislation by the Democrats don’t. Hypocrites one and all.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:47 pmLAFWH is obviously a full-time nut job.
Comment by Uncle Ho
The RNC does seem to be hitting the bottom of the barrel with the trolls these days. They need a little more quality control. You would think that with TP’s standings on the “most threatening” websites list, we would rate a better quality of trolls. On the other hand, maybe the RNC’s pickings are getting slim. They are down to 24%.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:50 pmGot pander?
October 26th, 2007 at 2:58 pmall aboard the ‘zero dignity express’!!
October 26th, 2007 at 2:59 pm“up-or-down vote based on his qualifications ”
Is not the ability to give a simple, truthful answer (”Let your yes be yes and your no be no” the Good Book says) be a qualification to be considered ?
Is not the ability to tell the difference between illegal torture and honest interrogation techniques a specific qualification of ability ?
The repugs keep talking about how the piece of paper doesn’t matter. So what about abilities (such as Brownie, graduates of Regents U, etc. etc. )
October 26th, 2007 at 3:06 pm“Weathervane” McCain!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 3:06 pmThis is another of many stellar examples of why McCain is not a man of his word — or not a man of integrity.
Mukasey didn’t even have the balls to say “Waterboarding is torture.” Perhaps the question that should have been asked is: If you or a family member were waterboarded would you consider it torture?
All of these pols (D & R alike) are such a bitter disappointment with regard to their performance in representing We, the People.
To quote (part) of an old, old Bob Dylan song:
“How many deaths will it take till he knows?
October 26th, 2007 at 3:14 pmThat too many people have died?
The answer my friend is Blowing in the Wind,
The answer is Blowing in the Wind.”
bilbo; see the next thread about Laura’s headscarf.
The Reichwing nuts eating their own.
Priceless. (:-D)
October 26th, 2007 at 3:32 pmAND considering we haven’t been attacked since 9/11, he’s doing a pretty good job.
Comment by Liberals Are Filled With Hate — October 26, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
In a way, I think you’re right. If there were any al-Qa’ida cells in the U.S., I’m sure they left long ago. After the east coast blackout and the failures after Katrina and the crash of the housing market and the collapse of the Minneapolis bridge, they all probably realized that there was nothing they could do to us that we weren’t doing already.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:50 pmAND considering we haven’t been attacked since 9/11, he’s doing a pretty good job.
Comment by Liberals Are Filled With Hate
LOL…Tell that to the families of the 3800+ soldiers killed and the 30,000+ soldiers wounded in action. Just a quick question: You never served in the armed forces, did you? If you had served, you wouldn’t speak the BS you do. You would have more respect for human life and the ease in which it is taken away.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:02 pmHe’s doing a miserable job and you know it.
Comment by hellinabucket
Yes, he does know it. He truly does. But after all the reverance he has invested in the idiot in chief, what do you expect? He is going to hang on to the bitter end. The only thing he won’t do is enlist and fight. He is a coward, asking other people to die for his hard on…
October 26th, 2007 at 4:04 pmOh, he knows whose butt he has to kiss to stand a chance in the primaries. He learned from 2000. Now he’s just shown as the craven opportunist he is … but that’s never been a bar to getting the Republican nomination.
What I don’t understand is why any Republican would want to run for Preznit….
Cheers,
October 26th, 2007 at 5:05 pm#10 Uncle Ho:
LAFWH is obviously a full-time nut job.
I think you have his capabilities reasonably well evaluated. But may I respectfully suggest that even “time and a half” wouldn’t get the job done for the likes of him.
Cheers,
October 26th, 2007 at 5:08 pmAND considering we haven’t been attacked since 9/11, he’s doing a pretty good job.
Comment by Liberals Are Filled With Hate — October 26, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
considering we were attacked on 9/11, he’s certainly the biggest failure of our history.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:17 pm