Comments on: Kristol: McCain And Graham Plan To Introduce Legislation Undermining Supreme Court Decision On Guantanamo

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:21:27 +0000

Is Brit Hume brain dead? He hardly speaks and when he does it’s unintelligible. No one expects Republicans to make sense, but shouldn’t he stay awake when he’s on the air?

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:40:33 +0000

Dumb Question: I can think of a lot of court decisions that prevent me from attaining wealth and actually take away things from me.

If so, does Newt’s doctrine say I can ignore them ?

By: spd

spd — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:04:00 +0000

I propose we observe June 12 as a National Holiday. We could call it Constitution restoration day. The Supreme Court narrowly restored the constitution in a 4 to 5 vote as 2 of the 3 branches of government moved to destroy it.

Our constitution was narrowly preserved by from the tyranny of the 109th congress and of “president” George W Bush where by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 arbitrarily removed habeas corpus. Habeas Corpus has always and should remain a cornerstone of the US Constitution.

We should always remembering the 5 America hero’s who saved the constitution:
Justices Kennedy, Justice Stevens, Justice Souter, Justices Ginsburg, Justices Breyer.

By: ernieson

ernieson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:09:02 +0000

If memory serves us well, we did not hear a big hue and cry from Graham and McCain when the Supreme Court chose the President in 2000.

By: DanCaveman

DanCaveman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:37:57 +0000

I have a question for John McCain. Does he think he deserved the treatment he received in Vietnam? Does he think that we should act as his captors did in Vietnam?

By: shaun

shaun — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:37:13 +0000

don’t know about anyone else but i had no idea what kristol was banging on about – he makes about as much sense as bush does when he sets about murdering the english language.
and any time kristol says “and i think….”,we know he’ll be 100% wrong….and still get paid.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:36:55 +0000

McCain and Graham are engaged in political grandstanding. Only a Constitutional Amendment can alter the Constitution itself. Any other legislative effort will simply be stuck down by the Supreme Court.

By: Cal Malenky

Cal Malenky — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:29:08 +0000

A recent McClatchy article says that less than one percent of the Gitmo detainees has been charged with terrorism. Bush said they were ‘Scooped up on the battlefield.” Most of the detainees were sold out for ransom. Sounds more like Rumsfeld’s 9/12/01 memo “Sweep it all up. Things relevant and not”
But Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld say they are all the “worst of the worst”, so they must be. They wouldn’t lie to us, would they?
Maybe the point was to make them terrorists if they weren’t before capture. If I had been detained and tortured for years, I’d be looking for revenge.
Sounds like Huckleberry’s trying to run for Veep for McNasty.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:55:58 +0000

Jebus, if the terrorists supposedly “hate us for our freedoms”…well, there ain’t so much freedom around here to hate anymore.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:02:51 +0000

Bring it on, you two stagnant holdovers from the Jurassic period!
Try to get even 30 votes for it. No ONE is going to line up behind you in line for the electoral slaughterhouse.

By: DanCaveman

DanCaveman — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:27:02 +0000

UNCHARTED WATERS? THIS WAS IN THE STINKING MAGNA CARTA!!! What an idiot. The founders thought it was such a good idea they put it in the constitution.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:52:22 +0000

I’m missing something here. I thought that the right to Habeas Corpus was a constitutional guarantee.

So a new law would be challenged on the same grounds. And a kangaroo court set up to bypass the constitution doesn’t pass the “smell test.” (I understand that pushing the challenges to the law would take 5 years to make it through the courts, though).

So what good does the law do other than showing who supports constructionist judges (in reality, the neocon judges) and who doesn’t

By: dixie blood

dixie blood — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:00:54 +0000

#65 jnratliff,

Great point. I wish I could pound on the “Recommend” link over and over again until I pass out!!!

By: dixie blood

dixie blood — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:58:01 +0000

The Supreme Court is the last word under our demeocracy. To start another court system will be met with more law suits (money to useless Regency U. grads like Monica Goodling) which the SCOTUS will reject. They have egos.

This sounds to me like as attempt to start a “Star Chamber”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber these many centuries later!

Quoting:

“In modern usage, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings are sometimes called, metaphorically or poetically, star chambers. This is a pejorative term and intended to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the proceedings. The inherent lack of objectivity of any politically motivated charges has led to substantial reforms in English law in most jurisdictions since that time.”

By: jnratliff

jnratliff — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:42:14 +0000

think about it people? this is fox news or as i fondly think of it faux news.
It is a direct line for the neocon agenda.
Bill the bloody cowardy idiot kristol was one of the signers of the letter to clinton trying to get him to do what bush has done.
They were wrong then and kristol and humus and the whole bunch are wrong again. They get paid to spout insane ideas and repeat over and over again until some of the brain dead bush supporting 25% believe it.
The money from the corporations have sure messed up America and helped creat unfeeling, uncaring, unintelligent, lying, greedy, back stabbing, fools like kristol, mcconnell, bush,chenny, and the list goes on and on!

By: Jess Wonderin

Jess Wonderin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:58:39 +0000

Kristol is a failed news puppet of the Right, with a running record for being WRONG. So why should this latest weasel whine be given any credence?

Bill follows a long line of family traitors and noted chickenhawks – a poster child for “family legacy” trumps ability. Can’t some “interviewer” ask for an explaination of his failure record??? (Kinda like McCain having Carley as an “Economic Advisor” . . . )

By: SP Biloxi

SP Biloxi — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:57:00 +0000

Another nail for McSame’s Presidential coffin run for President. And I hope that Obama seize the opportunity on the campaign trial to express McSame’s opposition about the Supreme Court decision on Gitmo and the detainees’ human rights. If McSame wants to deny the detainees their rights [if he were President], Grampa can do same to the American people of their rights.

By: Mike5000

Mike5000 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:59:03 +0000

Al Quaeda killed about three thousand Americans. That’s a great tragedy but not a historic event. The US Constitution has survived much greater challenges.

The neocons are responsible for the deaths of somewhat more Americans, plus tens of thousands of maimed GIs and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths. If it were only this, the neocons would be mere third rate war criminals like Al Quaeda.

The difference is that the neocons have repeatedly undermined the US Constitution. This makes them not merely war criminals but the worst conspiracy of traitors in US history. Such traitors should be impeached, indicted, and prosecuted. Chickenhawk traitors have not earned the dignity of a firing squad. Upon conviction they should be hung.

By: galmud

galmud — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:56:33 +0000

#
galmud Says:

Hey, are you bringing up McShrub’s age again? Heh.

Well in 2005 McCain said hes 69 and now he flip flopped and hes 72 all of a sudden so yeah ;)

Come to think of it IIRC McCain actually did flip-flop about his old age. A few years ago he said something like he thought he was too old and someone younger should run for president

By: Annie B.

Annie B. — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:51:22 +0000

Well, that will be the end of Senator McCain’s chance at the presidency if he does as Bill Kristol suggests. I really don’t think that McCain is that ignorant, is he?