Today, they have the same article, with this headline in tiny type:
Ex-agent: Waterboarding not needed

There’s that liberal media again.

Every piece of legislation that has been passed in the past seven years has either been severely vague . . . or subjected to signing statements . . . only when a clear violation of precedent and policy has arisen has any legislation or policy been tested . . . and in those cases (torture, distruction of evidence, financial malefeasence, electronic surveillence) have those precedents and laws been scrutinized . . . and the result has been . . . executive allegations of overly vague law, insufficient evidence under the law, executive privilege, state secret, state immunity, “The Office of the VP is a super-governmental office that falls under neither the executive or legislative branch of government” or any other such nonsense. This is crap.

We can’t elect Clinton. She has mastered political non-speak.

To hear this administration speak, the Office of the VP is the most powerful in government . . . it’s Putinesque. . . Cheney should appoint the next Premier. . . . a hair ball please . . . I feel the need to hack.

Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) recently sponsored H.R. 1955, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, which reads in part:

“(1) Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or `lone wolf’ violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.”

In it’s reading it’s convoluted . . . what does it mean? . . . in its impementation . . . it’s sufficiently vague that it could snare the entire American public and all foreigners in its net.

I feel your pain . . .

What is it that the republicans have on democratic congress people that results in the abandonment of democratic principles by the officials that we elected based upon their campaign promises to the effect that they have backbones and will defend and protect our democratic values?

#1 PELOSI & ROCKEFELLER:

Pelosi denounces impeachment . . . Rockefeller sees no harm in waterboarding or destroying evidence that Democrats demand . . .

[S]he voted to confirm Michael Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee to be attorney general, despite Mr. Mukasey’s refusal to declare waterboarding — making someone believe they are in imminent danger of drowning — to be torture. Ms. Feinstein was the only Democrat on the Judiciary Committee other than Charles Schumer of New York, who first suggested Mr. Mukasey for the job, to support him.
Ms. Feinstein’s critics note that unlike Democratic Senators from red states, she is not under political pressure to support the Bush Administration. It seems clear that she cast these votes simply because she wanted to.

#3. HARMON:
State control of the internet and restricting the First Amendment are favorite pastimes of radical, pro-Iraq war lawmakers like Rep. Jane Harman.However, if . . . . . she had, Harman would’ve discovered the U.S. already has extensive laws on the books that address criminal conspiracy and since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Justice Department has been applying broadly (many civil liberty advocates say far too broadly), in President Bush’s so-called war on terror.

The definitions in H.R.1955 swerve dangerously into thought crime territory.

. . . .Under H.R. 1955, if you engage in certain, very standard american activities, “you’re automatically a homegrown terrorist . . .Under H.R. 1955, you become an enemy of the state. Or maybe you fly a “Bring the Troops Home” flag in your frontyard? Or you have an “Impeach Bush” button on your backpack? Under H.R. 1955, you’re a homegrown terrorist.”

[Who has a problem?] Lawmakers like Rep. Jane Harman.

This is a bit disjointed, but it’s simply intended to offer examples of Democrats who might possibly be impeding the agenda that most Democrats and many Independents advocate. . . an end to Iraq, impeachment, prosecutions of Bush Administration wrongdoers, an end to the power of lobbyists and duplicity . . . Good Lord . . . we must clean house, these folks are impeding/blocking progress . . . whether they are opportunists or bought politicians . . . they have got to go. . . if for no other reason but that we need to scare the crap out of our elected officials . . . we expect results . . . if we don’t see results . . . you WILL BE FIRED. If we can’t promise that, we can expect nothing more than more of the same.

Traitors, all of them.

RIP
SGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq

The Modern Bush Republicanâ„¢ remains piously oblivious to that which is repeatedly placed directly in front of them without so much as blinking.

The Modern Bush Republicanâ„¢ is resolute in their commitment to fealty above principle, while using principle to justify fealty – a feat that should never be attempted by the sane.

Hmmm. This is sorta fun… Maybe I’ll start using it as Troll Spray…

TROLL: “Immigration…. Liberal… Whackjobs… Media…. Political Witchhunt… Bible…. Gore… Hillary… Terrorists…. Safe….”

The Modern Bush Republicanâ„¢ prefers torture-induced confessions with a side of retribution instead of actionable, admissible evidence con carne.

http://www.FEARandSMEAR.com

Comment by mandolin — December 11, 2007 @ 7:28 pm

Wow. the irony content of this post is astronomical.

Pay attention, class, this is top-flight trolldom: mandolin accuses liberals of changing the meanings of laws they don’t like, and then in the very next sentence, changes the meaning of a law it doesn’t like.

This is not for the unskilled troll to attempt. This is some industrial-strength projection that really needs to be supervised.

Comment by ralph the wonder llama — December 11, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
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Very funny indeed. I am sad that I do not have the patience or the interest to try to “educate” these trolls… I really do wonder how they ever got through high school (maybe) or college (gasp). But if Ms. Dana Perino (Bush mouthpiece, latest V.) can get through HS and college without studying the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, then many mind-boggling things are possible.

Cheers.

Comment by mandolin

No but they should have given these tapes to the Moussaui trial judge who, just days before these tapes were destroyed, petitioned to see any video tapes that the CIA had regarding al Qaeda interrogations. IANAL but I’m smart enough to realize that that qualifies as Obstruction of Justice which is, in fact, a crime.

They are now a part of the Vice President’s snuff-film library.

And just what was he doing at the time he had that ‘irregular heartbeat’?

Crude? Disgusting? Offensive? Yup – so’s waterboarding.

Comment by mandolin — December 11, 2007 @ 7:28 pm

Try taking your head out of your a$$ sometime and actually reading the Constitution, you ignorant twit.
After you clean the sh!t from you eyes first, of course

Comment by jurassicpork — December 11, 2007 @ 8:21 pm
Well said.
Bush just signed his first since 2006 since Dems took over Congress, but reserving the right to bypass 11 provisions in a military appropriations bill under his executive powers.

Sorry, for a minute there, mandy, I thought you were talking about George W. Bush and his signing statements. Please, continue talking out of your ass…

Comment by Snowball — December 11, 2007 @ 8:11 pm

He calls it paradise.

“You see, it’s when corporate interests and the economic elite seize the reigns of control over government”

That’s Backwards

Comment by mandolin — December 11, 2007 @ 8:00 pm

So what do you call it when corporate interests and the economic elite seize control of government?

Comment by ralph the wonder llama — December 11, 2007 @ 8:02 pm

Are you being cleaver again?

Comment by mandolin — December 11, 2007 @ 8:00 pm

No, you’re just badly informed or willfully ignorant.

Try reading a little bit about the Nazis and German corporations, or even about Nazis and certain American corporations that couldn’t wait to get on board.

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength