Bush re-nominates Bradbury as OLC head.
By on Jan 23rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Bush re-nominates Bradbury as OLC head.
President Bush announced today that he is re-nominating Steven Bradbury to be head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, despite the Senate’s objections. Bradbury came under criticism last fall “when it was disclosed that he was the author of a pair of secret legal opinions that endorsed rough techniques for suspects in the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency.” More on Bradbury’s history with torture here.
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anybody who thought bush would ever exhibit any characteristics of a lame duck president, is simply out of touch with just how much power his administration has accrued and how unbelievably little they care about anything but their own money and power agenda… we look at something like this and huff and puff… bush doesn’t give a tinker’s dam and he’s going to keep right on shoving his crap down our collective throats until he is dragged kicking and screaming from the white house…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 pmI am afraid you are very correct, prof.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:32 pmThis is going to be a hellish year - as if the previous 7 have not been the worst I’ve ever seen!
profmarcus - i was going to ask “why?”…
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:33 pmthat’s what i thought…
Like so many frogs which were tortured by the hands of the Boy George, such is the fate of the “enemy combatants”.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 pmDana Perino will announce tomorrow that Mr Bradbury’s rough techniques were not worth spending time on.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 pmThugs hang together
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm“Bush re-nominates Bradbury as OLC head”
Another nail and stupidity in the Bush’s legacy.
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pmSounds like a good man:
“Mr. Bradbury has the kind of conservative credentials that President Bush admires: in 1982, he was a co-founder of the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers’ group. In the early 1990s, he was a clerk for Judge James L. Buckley of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, who was a one-term senator from the Conservative Party of New York in the 1970’s.”
Good for Dubya:
‘President Bush’s resubmission of the nomination is likely to be seen as a signal that he is unwilling to consign himself to lame-duck status just yet, even though he is in the final year of his term and Congress is controlled by Democrats.”
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 pmIf Congress passes a bill to Bush which Bush says that he will veto, Bush decries the waste of time.
Now Bush RE-sends a nominee who has already been refused due to the nominee’s extreme views. Is Bush going to decry the waste of time ?
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:20 pmGood for Dubya:
‘President Bush’s resubmission of the nomination is likely to be seen as a signal that he is unwilling to consign himself to lame-duck status just yet, even though he is in the final year of his term and Congress is controlled by Democrats.â€
Comment by Exley — January 23, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
yes, good for dubya, nailing home the idea that he has no morals, hates the Constitution and international law, and thumbs his nose at the people of the USA. this will be another nail in the many that are pounded into the coffin of the GOP. they stayed with a sociopath, they can die with him.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 pmWho would have thought conservatives could be so viciously anti-American?
I would have. Always did, always knew they were the scum of humanity. They continue to prove it. I hope George Bush dies at the end of a rope. Soon.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:36 pmDubya is just the classic school-yard bully.
“You gonna make me?!?!? This is my teeter-totter. Get off my teeter-totter.”
What a repulsive little man. I’d never drink beer with him … he’d probably piss in my glass because I told him he shouldn’t.
Cheers,
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 pmComment by Exley — January 23, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
“Mr. Bradbury has the kind of conservative credentials that President Bush admires: in 1982, he was a co-founder of the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers’ group.
“… co-founder of the Federalist Society!”
The perfect reason to NOT want him in ANY government position.
Oh, and exley… you would not know a good man if he was saving your life.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm#1 Comment by profmarcus — January 23, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
Amen, prof. And I am not even a believer.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pmFrak!~ For a second there I thought it said they’d nominated Ray Bradbury! Science Fiction being stranger than truth!
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 pmWaterboard Steven Bradbury !!!
January 24th, 2008 at 1:08 amThis is “The President is always right” guy. This is the one and only credential that Bush cares about. Blind loyalty.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2006/ 07/ 11/ AR2006071100953.html
January 24th, 2008 at 9:06 amWell, the President IS always right.
Indeed. Like when he said this many months after the invasion, and after the ISG’s results:
“The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region. I firmly believe the decisions we made will make America more secure and the world more peaceful.”
That paragraph’s multiple assertions are all 100% …. ummm, oh, yeah, right, proven … wrong if not obviously wrong on the face of such things as television reports from Baghdad by Hans Blix, etc.
Cheers,
January 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm